Nintendo also offers free repairs for UK's 4.2-bricked Wiis

by Griffin McElroy on Oct 3rd 2009 11:30AM

America wasn't the only nation visited by the specter of techno-death this past week when Wii System Update 4.2 was released upon the unsuspecting masses. A number of UK Wii owners have also complained the maligned patch has bricked their unmodified gaming hardware. Don't be sad, our overseas compatriots! You're not alone in your anguish.

Fortunately, Nintendo recently confirmed to Eurogamer that the "very small number" of UK-based owners of 4.2-bricked Wiis can get the same free repair service we're eligible for. As long as you haven't diddled around with your console's guts or brains, you can send in your dead Wii for resuscitation at zero cost. Or rather, Wiisuscitation. (Man, Wii portmanteaus are never going out of style.)

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Tags: brick, europe, hardware-failure, nintendo, uk, Wii, wii-system-update, wii-system-update-4.2

Reader Comments (55)

Forgot to add this to part 2, but the save files for said downloadable games should also be intact.

Thanks for all the comments, everyone! Glad to finally know those things.

I'm interested to find out if the bricked consoles have anything in common, like they were a part of a devkit shipment that was never meant to get packaged and sold to the masses and someone at nintendo noticed and this was the easiest most covert way to get them back without alerting a few thousand people that they had said consoles.

honestly its what I would do in that situation if I was nintendo