The most expensive mistake Nintendo ever made

The Nintendo Wii actually has a design flaw that you probably never noticed And this little mistake cost Nintendo millions of dollars! Let me show you what I mean...

SOURCES

Broken TVs

Lawsuit #1

Lawsuit #2

Strap Changes

CREDITS
- Wii Sports footage via World of Longplays

MUSIC
- Both versions of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 via MusOpen
- All other music via Epidemic Sound

[ThomasGameDocs]

thank you so much for watching!! I couldn't be here doing this thing I love without you all :))))

[Droidekadotexe]

I remember being a kid and swinging those 3rd generation wrist straps like a helicopter blade for hours. If it can survive that and still be intact to this day, I think their design is just fine.

[raxcentalruthenta]

I never had any issues with remote straps. The are strong as heck and my siblings played those games very vigorously.

[amberlee]

"The strap broke" has only ever been said by children who ignored the instructions about using the wrist strap every time you use the controller and lost their grips. The only time Wiimotes or Joycons have ever gone flying for me, it was because I did that.

[slv-mfui]

People: don't know how to hold a controller.

"Ah yes, this is clearly Nintendo's fault"

[goromajima]

I love the idea of people playing tennis so vigorously, that the wii remote slips out of their hands with such velocity that it snaps the band, and rockets into someone’s tv

[ihateavocados]

guarantee those people who said their straps “broke” didn’t even have them on. i’ve never met anyone who’s had an issue.

[painfish]

Fun fact: Super Paper Mario made a joke out of this. Three of the enemies in world 6 are named, in order, Sweaty Palm, Clammy Hand, and Forbidden Slap. It was a reference to this precise issue.

[ChrischiTutorialLPs]

This reminds me of something that a park ranger once said when asked about why its so hard to make bear proof trash cans
"There is a surprisingly big intersection between the smartest bears and the dumbest humans"

[JackCats]

Image you get an email one night from an unknown address and it says “hold the remote securely and avoid excessive motion” with nothing else attached.

[Mortal_Tezer]

LMAO "people are playing more energetically than expected" how hard were they playing their Wii gosh darn

[Isaacreeper]

The best memory Ive had with the wii is when my older sister and I were supposed to be asleep on a school night but we snuck out into the living room to play Wii Sports.

Of course when we turned on the TV we spammed the mute button to ensure that no sound could be heard and we began our hour or two of playing the Wii.

At some point during a heated match my sister, who wasnt wearing the wristrap, let go of the remote. It slammed against the TV, which was one of those old giant boxes with a hard glass screen so no damage done, bounced off the wall and clattered onto the tile. My sister and I stood stock still for a good second and looked at eachother in horror. Without a word we scrambled to turn the tv and wii off and quietly sprinted off to our rooms to act as if we were asleep.

I will honestly never forget that.

[davidwilson]

Gotta love how Nintendo immediately addressed and fixed the issues with the Wii Remote strap, but still haven't tackled Joy-Con drift after five years and several (much more credible) lawsuits. Different times...

[TDRR_Gamez]

I seriously can't comprehend how hard do you need to be playing these games for this kind of stuff to happen, I've played Wii since I was 8 and I've never had one of these accidents lol

[paddyrobbo]

The straps never “broke” people just didn’t wear them i used to swing it around like mad using the 1st gen strap, more than i played wii, and it never broke

[Belette]

Fascinated by the fact that the controllers could make holes in walls. If my controller was sent flying and hit the wall, the controller would break, the wall would still be intact.

[squrrll]

"The most expensive mistake Nintendo ever made"

Click bait much? There is an exactly 0% chance this was the most expensive mistake they've made. A few million in replacement straps is nothing.

[aekaydubs]

My 6 year old recently broke our 60” TV with a Wii remote in this, the year of our Lord 2021. The strap was fine; she just didn’t feel like wearing it. Sigh.

[elijahbuettel]

I’ve literally spun those remotes around from the strap repeatedly as a strategy for some games and never broke it

[sparks]

I distinctly remember either never using the strap or when I did and if it ever flew out of my hand it never broke. The same goes for my siblings (4 of them, that could find a way to break a solid block of tungsten) not one tv broken or strangely wiimote shaped dent in the wall. Those straps are probably made in the same primordial pit that the Nokia crawled out of