Nintendo warns Wii users not to get too excited
TOKYO: Nintendo on Thursday warned players of its new Wii video game console not to get too carried away when swinging the controller as they could accidently throw it into their television sets.
The warning follows reports that some users have cracked their TV screens when swinging the controller particularly hard to simulate the pitching of a baseball or the swinging of a tennis racket, after their wrist straps snapped.
"Of course before the launch of the Wii hardware Nintendo had a number of tests on the durability of everything including the strap," Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told reporters.
"But our understanding right now is that even beyond our expectations people are becoming more and more excited playing with the Wii," he added.
Nintendo, which launched the Wii in the United States last month and in Japan on Saturday, has been getting rave reviews for its new controller and games that shy away from blood-and-guts action.
But the Kyoto-based company said that some users might be getting too excited.
"We are encouraging people to understand that you really don't have to be so excited but rather you need to understand the control and then you're going to be the best player," said Nintendo senior managing director Shigeru Miyamoto.
"We are looking into the situation to see if there are additional methods to encourage people to kind of calm down so they would never throw away the controller itself," he said.
The wireless Wii controller is shaped like a television remote control and engineered with motion sensors and speakers.
By waving or swinging the controller, it can serve as a sword, tennis racket or car steering wheel, with a built-in speaker and rumble feature.
Nintendo leads the global market in portable machines and has been taking aim at beleaguered Sony's lead in stand-alone consoles.
Sony last month rolled out its long-awaited PlayStation 3, a super-fast machine with a high-definition DVD player, which had been beset by delays due to production problems.
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The warning follows reports that some users have cracked their TV screens when swinging the controller particularly hard to simulate the pitching of a baseball or the swinging of a tennis racket, after their wrist straps snapped.
"Of course before the launch of the Wii hardware Nintendo had a number of tests on the durability of everything including the strap," Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told reporters.
"But our understanding right now is that even beyond our expectations people are becoming more and more excited playing with the Wii," he added.
Nintendo, which launched the Wii in the United States last month and in Japan on Saturday, has been getting rave reviews for its new controller and games that shy away from blood-and-guts action.
But the Kyoto-based company said that some users might be getting too excited.
"We are encouraging people to understand that you really don't have to be so excited but rather you need to understand the control and then you're going to be the best player," said Nintendo senior managing director Shigeru Miyamoto.
"We are looking into the situation to see if there are additional methods to encourage people to kind of calm down so they would never throw away the controller itself," he said.
The wireless Wii controller is shaped like a television remote control and engineered with motion sensors and speakers.
By waving or swinging the controller, it can serve as a sword, tennis racket or car steering wheel, with a built-in speaker and rumble feature.
Nintendo leads the global market in portable machines and has been taking aim at beleaguered Sony's lead in stand-alone consoles.
Sony last month rolled out its long-awaited PlayStation 3, a super-fast machine with a high-definition DVD player, which had been beset by delays due to production problems.
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