Nintendo responds to Wii-strap lawsuit

@ 23, Deth

Good points -- I was pretty much using hyperbole to highlight the fact that someone would basically have to lack basic motor skills and coordination or an extreme palm sweating problem to actually lose their grip on the Wiimote. And even in those cases there is still a way to use the wiimote without losing your grip on it.

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@ 45, v1cious

I'm no child but I'm definitely a college student and yes, we play drinking games with wii sports. I.e. taking a shot of Captain Morgan for every [i]game[/i] (not match, game as in the winner of the match can still take up to two shots) lost. Try playing that for an hour and you get pretty wasted. And yet drunk as we were, not one of us has managed to let go of the wiimote in the process.

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In general I'm very intrigued with this statement from the complaint (assuming it was quoted correctly by #41):

"the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user’s hand."

Have those filing the complaint ever even worn a wrist strap with a wiimote? There's a good inch or two of slack on the wrist strap itself when you wear it, especially when you wear it correctly and tighten it around your wrist. For there to be enough tension on the strap for it to break one would have to first actually let go of the wiimote.

Basically, there's enough slack on the wiimote that it's virtually impossible for the the wrist strap breaking to actually cause the wiimote to leave the user's hand as the complaint states. The wiimote would have to be thrown first causing the strap to break. The wiimote leaving the user's hand in the first place is the fault of the user. Nintendo's covered on this one.

quote "49. #8 (Gamer G), #39 (Azesino), #41 (WaterlooDude):

I'm not trying to be rude or offend any of you, but all three of you are absolutely wrong."

I can’t say for Gamer G or Azesino but you are not rude or offend me, Scott. You actually made my case stronger 'cause you found nothing to say that contradict my assessment. I thank you for that.

Here another take of my thought. If Nintendo make the wrist strap too strong and the owners throw the wiimote, the wrist strap is not broken but it cut the owners’s wrist instead. Wouldn’t that warrant the law suite? I wonder, it may not matter what happen they just want to sue.
The argument of the claim would be about what was instructed in the manual. Did the manual & instruction suggest the owners to throw the wiimote while playing? If not, then it would be very challenging to convince that Nintendo provide the defective product. Let think about these scenarios, if owners deliberately throw the wiimote then it is obviously owners’s fault (The instruction didn’t say that you should throw your wiimote to be able to play the Wii). If it was an accident then it could be argued that Nintendo might be partially liable. Fortunately this law firm tight their hands by clearly indicate that this unfortunate event happen when the owners follow the giving instruction form Nintendo. That is why I said in the first place, this claim was filed without merit (again, ‘cause Nintendo didn’t instruct the owners to deliberately throw the wiimote).