Rumor: Wii attracts ... cockroaches?

by Candace Savino on Dec 16th 2007 6:00PM

Recently, a Japanese magazine called BARKS published an article claiming that the Wii emits a cockroach-attracting sound frequency. We've heard some people say negative things about the Wii before, but this rumor takes the cake.

We find this to be highly unlikely, but then again, we're no bugologists. Well, no one is a bugologist, since we just made that word up, but that's neither here nor there.

So, anyone have any cockroaches drop in on their Wii parties lately?

[Via Destructoid]

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Tags: cockroaches, sound-frequency, theory

Reader Comments (38)

This is mad, we have been living in our house for 2 months and we had a Wii for christmas. We had never had cockroaches and the people who lived in the house before us (my sister so its a reliable source :P) had never seen one in or around the house, but the past month or so we have noticed very small cockroaches in our house. They havn't really been around the Wii or anything though. Before anyone says it we are not just messy b*****ds. These are the first cockroaches I have ever seen in the UK. Hope someone knows how to turn the Wii into an anti-cockroach device!!! :S

I LEFT MY WII ON FOR A DAY and i turn it back on and there were like 50 cocroahes coming out of it WTF Never Leaving my Wii out again scared theres a nest or sumat in there...

It's possible...I mean their are things you can plug into your wall that emit sound waves that are supposed to repel bugs...so why wouldn't there be a sound that attracts them?

that would be hilarious if it were true...*waits for patch to fix the problem* haha

It would be possible, if it were possible in the first place. The only thing that the 'sonic' pest chasers chase away is the cash in your wallet. They do not work. So by extrapolation, the Wii does not attract cockroaches. Now relatives and friends that want to come over and play the Wii all the time, now that it attracks.

I got spiders, not cockroaches.

Haha, yea. I also get spiders. I did see a small roach recently, but I'm pretty sure that's due to the messiness of the apartment.

roaches started coming to my room. I once found a one-roach-colony living between my wii and a picture laying against the wii.

Its a possible rumor, sadly

Its too cold for insects this time of year, and my wii spent the whole of the summer in a box, so i cant say i can vouch for this one

though we dont really get roaches in the north of england unless you could the chavs :p

Wow. Well I found a nearly dead cockroach on the floor in front of the wii. I have never seen a cockroach in my home before or since, and I found it very strange that one just showed up, almost dead on the floor by the wii. I never thought it was attracted by the Wii until now, but I thought I'd share.

lol I guess the PS3's next slogan will be "no bugs in the system."

Well, considering the dorm building I live in is supposedly a roach haven, from my experiences, I don't think the Wii attracts them.

I have found only one roach in my room, and it was in the bathroom, far from my Wii and the room it resides in.
On the other hand, my friend in another has had at least two of the little buggers (pun intended), and he doesn't have a Wii.

Wait a moment!

I understand the grand scheme now! The Wii attracts roaches and kills them! It's a long-range bug-zapper! BRILLIANT!

Dang... this system keeps getting better and better... once the waffle output slot is updated it will be fantastic...

I think the term bugologist is fine, since it's relevent to the context of the story, but there are people who study bugs and they usually call themselves entomologist. Like Grism from CSI: Los Vagas.
Not that this has anything to do for the wii, so please accept this term for you collective knowlegde as a token of apology for taking up response space.

If this rumor is true, some lucky kid is getting my Wii.

I HATE ROACHES. Roaches, palmetto bugs, nasty lil crunchy squishies, I don't care what they're called, I HATE THEM. There was one in my bathroom last night. Er, this morning.

they crunch when you step on them and my cat eats them and spits the legs and wings out on my bed and i wake up some mornings and i have roach bits in my bed and one morning they were in my hair and i really really hate it because its nasty and theyve crawled up my legs two times and its disgusting *shudder*

You...hate roaches, you say?

Well, I, for one, welcome our new cockroach overlords.

I've noticed that the area around my entertainment center has always been bug free, even when I have a problem elsewhere in the house. Not even a single cobweb, not ever, even in the sea of cables and many-nooked furniture. If the Wii is doing something, it's not enough to counter the rest of the setup.

were i live theirs not cockroaches to im safe

The place where I kept my Wii was (and still occasionally gets one) infested by ladybugs, but it's not the Wii's fault. We have a full house fan up there, and if we don't close it, the ladybugs who live there get out.

The Sony propaganda machine at work (or maybe MS).

Anyway, roaches are survivors. They can survive in radiation (from a nuclear war) or chemical attacks. It makes sense that they would be attracted to the survivor of this console generation war.

Ninten-roaches

GokibuWii

I don't like spiders and snakes
And that ain't what it takes to love me
It takes cockroaches, you fool, you fool!

haha Wow, this is interesting because I work in Nintendo's Tech Services department, and have personally opened up a broken Wii someone sent in which had dead cockroaches in it. Other than that though, I've only seen dead insects inside of one other Wii (of the thousands I've taken apart). I've heard of live spiders being inside of a unit before too, but that's not as surprising.

The term is in fact, as nekocat said earlier, entomology, which is the study of insects. Not to be confused with etymology, which is the study of the history of words. Bugology, while getting the point across, is less descriptive due to the fact that the term bug often includes things like spiders, which are not insects.

Not that any of you really care, it's just that my father happens to be an entomologist.

nope no roaches near my wii, not even spiders

If you live in filth expect roaches they probably just like the warm air the wii spits out it's arse.

This is probably only a problem for filthy people. Filthy FILTHY PEOPLE!

i agree, with the weather getting colder and gaming systems being warm, if you have roaches thats definitely where an area where they will show up, and from my experience in electronics repair, the inside of big screen tvs seems to be like a big home...

I guess you are telling about hoaxes, not roaches.. :-D

In the spirit of Mario, jump on the little bugs. Maybe a gold coin will pop out.

Well Duh! They are also know as (Non-Wii-System-Here) Fanboys.

Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe had an episode that covered cockroaches. Cockroaches are attracted to electrical components.

That's what the exterminator said...

The Wii... last time I played with it... is electrical.

i found a cockroach trying to climb into the fan at the back of my wii once (it failed, thankfully). never seen any in the living room before that too! weird...

This study was brought to you by the Sony Microsoft partnership.

Remember the Geroge Carlin bit?

And now a message from the National Apple board:
"*&^# Pears!"

Well...I've been starting to see quite a few cockroaches recently...and my house is just brand new so I'm kind of worried about this.

strangely, yes.

If it does attract I doubt it attracts them from outside your house, therefore it would actually help you locate roaches hiding in your house.

Ever since I got my Wii, spiders have mysteriously appeared in my basement. I've also found some making their webs in the USB ports...never use them anyways...*mumbles*

Roaches are only attracted to the Wii because of how freakin' sweet it is.

(Bad joke, I know.)

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