Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:Note they mentioned that a kid did it....which leads me to believe that the kid might have not been holding it properly to make sure it wouldn't fly out of his/her hand, as kids tend to seem things are indestructable & therefore show a blantant disreguard to any kind of warning. I'm assuming the weed & booze mentioned probably didn't help either....
Seriously, I've never had a problem with one slipping out of my hand in the slightest....with or without one of those colored gloves on it. I really don't see how anyone really could unless they were just really lightly handling it.
Psycho Warrior wrote:for this reason, that is why I like to be around Locust. fun stuff happens.
Sonray wrote:Haha. Ive seen endless stories like this. Just goes to show this gimmick doesnt work, and is defective and false advertising on Nintendo's part as they say NOT to jump around like a loon when playing these games, yet EVERY commercial for the Wii has people in them doing exactly that.
What a load of junk...
Wigglez wrote:Just remember. The sword is an extension of your arm. Use it as if you're going to karate chop someone with your really long sharp ass hand.
Sonray wrote:Haha. Ive seen endless stories like this. Just goes to show this gimmick doesnt work, and is defective and false advertising on Nintendo's part as they say NOT to jump around like a loon when playing these games, yet EVERY commercial for the Wii has people in them doing exactly that.
What a load of junk...
Shadowman wrote:Sonray wrote:Haha. Ive seen endless stories like this. Just goes to show this gimmick doesnt work, and is defective and false advertising on Nintendo's part as they say NOT to jump around like a loon when playing these games, yet EVERY commercial for the Wii has people in them doing exactly that.
What a load of junk...
You didn't read the thread, did you?
Locust and Nemesis Cyberplex both said that Wii games don't require the kind of force necessary to throw it at and break a TV.
Really the Nintendo hating is getting really annoying and retarded. Mostly just going "SEE?!?!lol" without hearing a second opinion.
Have you played a Wii?
Autobot032 wrote:Sonray wrote:Haha. Ive seen endless stories like this. Just goes to show this gimmick doesnt work, and is defective and false advertising on Nintendo's part as they say NOT to jump around like a loon when playing these games, yet EVERY commercial for the Wii has people in them doing exactly that.
What a load of junk...
You're still on this campaign eh? I give you credit...I'd have figured you'd have given up by now, simply because no one gives a damn.
The Internet: Still Showing Us Unimportant Facts And Stupid Sh*t Everyday.
Gimmick dosen't work? The Wii is selling more units than any other major console. HOw does that translate to not working? & besides that, all of these mishaps are just random isolated incidents compiled together & made public by a wonderful piece of technolgy we call the internet....which can make even the slightest problem appear to be huge. But simply put, people that throw their Wii remotes at the TV are careless idiots. Even in this instance they mentioned that they were drinking & smoking weed.Sonray wrote:Haha. Ive seen endless stories like this. Just goes to show this gimmick doesnt work, and is defective and false advertising on Nintendo's part as they say NOT to jump around like a loon when playing these games, yet EVERY commercial for the Wii has people in them doing exactly that.
What a load of junk...
Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:Gimmick dosen't work? The Wii is selling more units than any other major console. HOw does that translate to not working? & besides that, all of these mishaps are just random isolated incidents compiled together & made public by a wonderful piece of technolgy we call the internet....which can make even the slightest problem appear to be huge. But simply put, people that throw their Wii remotes at the TV are careless idiots. Even in this instance they mentioned that they were drinking & smoking weed.Sonray wrote:Haha. Ive seen endless stories like this. Just goes to show this gimmick doesnt work, and is defective and false advertising on Nintendo's part as they say NOT to jump around like a loon when playing these games, yet EVERY commercial for the Wii has people in them doing exactly that.
What a load of junk...
& no, it is not false advertising, because in every commercial where these japanese schoolgirls are jumping around like...well....japanese schoolgirls....they are holding on to their controllers tight enough that it is not flying out of their hand. If you keep a good grip on the controller, the wrist strap dosen't even factor in.
That being said, you are entitled to your opinion, & I'm not saying you have to like the gimmick, or the system for that matter. But most of your argument against is nothing more than BS. But if you don't like the Wii, then hey, good for you. I'll keep enjoying mine.
Sonray wrote:Heh, yeah a gimmick that works so well that you can play games where you have to pump up a balloon and then burst it. That sounds like GREAT Next-gen quality gaming right there!8-|
That's right...each is simply an opinion. I do have a problem, though, when people tend to treat their opinions as cold hard facts.A "BS" opinion for a BS system then. It all balances itself out ya see, especially when i consider your opinion in the same regard as you consider mine.
As a few people have already mentioned, there is no real reason for such a problem to exist...provided that you are paying attention to what you are doing. If your hands get sweaty, then you should take a break & cool off. In the instance above, however, it is obvious that the cause was more than likely inebriation(sp?) as they readily admitted it. & yes, I did know about the recall on the straps as they made the problem well known...but it wasn't so much that they were defective as it was they were trying to save face in front of a biast media trying desprately to grasp for straws to deface the big N for not appealing to their hardcore gamer ways. Personally, I got a Wii late enough that it came with the thicker straps. But still...the strap was not meant to keep the controller in your hand, & as I said earlier, if these people would actually hold onto their controllers, the wrist strap dosen't even factor into the equation.Oh and people DO hold onto their controllers tight, but hands get sweaty due to the workout that is playing one of these games, and then they loose grip and then the wrist strap breaks and tv's get broken. (If you did some research Nintendo even recalled and replaced many many broken wrist straps and even changed how their future wrist straps are made, i.e. not out of cat hair. So obviously this isnt just a case of "idiots at play", it was an actual design defect otherwise why would a company recall its product?)
true gamer? geez, you make it sound like this stuff should be made for a niche' little club of people that spend all their time in front of a TV with a controller in their hand, devoid of any life outside of that small circle, but gods within it. No, sir, it is an industry, & industries need funding to stay alive, & sometimes to get said funding, people have to think outside the box, hence, the Wii, & why it's been so popular.
But i guess those little facts dont matter, just as much as the fact that the wii is selling well (only due to its low price point and family friendly games which parents, a.k.a. non gamers love to buy for their spoiled kids. Granted true gamers have bought the system as well but once you hear of grandparents and parents seeing their kids play the system and THEN they want to buy one for themselves you know that a majority of those sales figures are thanks to non-gamers. Again, research has proved this) ) to me doesnt change a thing about the way i feel about this....abomination and an insult for a games console.
maybe so, but having inhibitions impared goes a long way towards how much arms are flying & how much stuff is going to get broke.
At the end of the day being drunk and smoking weed has nothing to do with it. The FACT is once arms start flying around someone, something, somewhere is gonna get hurt or broken, regardless of what you are doing.
Fang Wolf wrote:Sonray, some facts for you
NINTENDO SAVED VIDEO GAMES WITH QUALITY>QUANTITY AFTER THE CRASH.
SONY PLAYSTATION AND INCOMPETANCE KILLED SEGA, RELEASING THE SATURN AND DREAMCAST TOO CLOSE TOGETHER AND A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE PS2, WHILE THE SATURN WAS INFERIOR TO THE PSOne, BARELY CAPABLE OF ANYTHING PAST 2.5D.
I was, and still am to a degree, a Sega fan, still have me MegaDrive II, but they deserved to die in the console market.
Sonray wrote:Ok, Just so you know, thats not a "FACT". Nintendo did NOT, i repeat, did NOT save the video game industry, there were many other companies about during that time who contributed just as much as Nintendo did to the cause (sega being one of them). So get that stupid idea out of your head as its a common misconception. Nintendo wasnt the only company around during that time and again, they DID NOT single handedly save the video game industry. Again some in-depth research would tell you this.
Got a few things to say about this, one, the obvious reason Nintendo had Family Freindly games(E is for Everyone, G is for General, there is no K for Kiddie rating, anywere), as the influx of garbage games was what caused the crash, in some ways, it worked for them, sales figures say this, in others, pissing off companies with decent games, toning down games(Mortal Kombat and the Final Fantasy series here) has hurt them in the long run. Two, I do love how you bash one console and company for being innovative and praise another, true, differant circumstances, and some Wii games use blasted N64 graphics(LOOKING AT YOU POKEMON BATTLE REVOLUTION), they have taken a chance on just gimmicking out an antiquated console that was last years model when it came out. While sales figures have shown it is, in the general consumers eyes, a superior console for enjoyment, it has failed to wow me, as have the 360 and PS3, to be honest, all three are garbage and I am waiting for gen8, and try to forget these three as a distant memory.Sonray wrote:
Incompetance killed Sega? Well at least you are right in that regard, but at least sega released hardware and games that was ahed of their time and took chances (unlike nintendo) if only Sega had marketed their products properly their innovative hardware wouldnt have bombed as much as it did.
While I will agree to a degree, MD>SNES, in alot of respects, Gamegear had nothing on GB. Multiple reasons, Battery life, amount of batteries, worthwhile games. Now if you said Sega Nomad, we would have a discussion, that thing looked effing brilliant, even with the problems with batteries(Reoccuring problem, you'd think sega would learn the first time), a portable Megadrive, how cool was that?Sonray wrote:Like i said, unlike Nintendo Sega was often the first company to release powerful and innovative hardware that took risks. They used to think outside of the box released stuff like the Game Gear, Mega Drive to challenge Nintendos game boy and NES. Personally i always saw the former systems as infinateley superior, but as you know thanks to Segas lack of common sense and crappy marketing their products bombed more than they were successful.
I would like to agree, outside of like, 6 games, what was so great about it, a vain attempt at a disc lock out, Online which is great for what, 1 game? (I am unaware of how many online racing games it had, anything else for the majority can be played with RL friends), seems like a prototype XBox to me. Being the first is not realy such a great thing, XBox360 has shown this, in the same respect, being bigger and better, is not either, Sega's MS and MD, the PS3 and the XBox have shown this, while I will agree to a degree Wii is a boring, bland, rediculously out of date console, the other two bring nothing other than SHINEY and are equaly as crappy, a wast of my time, energy and money.Sonray wrote:I mean Sega released the Dreamcast, the FIRST 128 bit online console. It was an amazing machine and ahed of its time, and if it wasnt for the advent of DVD and Sony adding a vad DVD player into its 128bit console, the Dreamcast wouldnt have died as quickly as it did IMO. It never fully realized its potential which is a big shame.
Wigglez wrote:Just remember. The sword is an extension of your arm. Use it as if you're going to karate chop someone with your really long sharp ass hand.
Shadowman wrote:You know what's not innovative at all? Xbox 360.
Don't get me wrong, I do love Microsoft. But what does the 360 bring to the table? Wireless? Online Play? We've had those for years.
360 is just the base console. It has no "WOW" to it other than it's shiny graphics.
Sonray wrote:Shadowman wrote:You know what's not innovative at all? Xbox 360.
Don't get me wrong, I do love Microsoft. But what does the 360 bring to the table? Wireless? Online Play? We've had those for years.
360 is just the base console. It has no "WOW" to it other than it's shiny graphics.
So you are saying Gears of War, dead rising, PGR3, Forza 2, The Darkness, GRAW 2, and many others offer now wow factor at all, despite these games being widely accepted as some of the best games currently out with the best gameplay and graphics?
The 360 isnt innovative and i never claimed it was. But now that you mention it i guess those wireless controllers were innovative, its dashboard setup is quite clever and it was the first HD-ready system to be released. (that sounds like gushing, but im just stating the facts)Also it sure as hell has some power behind it and offers an amazing gaming experiance and a better online component then ANY other system, as well as having a very exciting future ahed of it with games like Halo 3 and GTA4 and Assassins Creed on the horizon.
Its not just about the graphics, the games the system has offers both great gameplay and fantastic visuals and sound, which all adds to the experiance.
Seems your just being biased for Nintendo now. What i suppose do YOU consider to have "WOW" to it then?
Wigglez wrote:Just remember. The sword is an extension of your arm. Use it as if you're going to karate chop someone with your really long sharp ass hand.
Shadowman wrote:Sonray wrote:Shadowman wrote:You know what's not innovative at all? Xbox 360.
Don't get me wrong, I do love Microsoft. But what does the 360 bring to the table? Wireless? Online Play? We've had those for years.
360 is just the base console. It has no "WOW" to it other than it's shiny graphics.
So you are saying Gears of War, dead rising, PGR3, Forza 2, The Darkness, GRAW 2, and many others offer now wow factor at all, despite these games being widely accepted as some of the best games currently out with the best gameplay and graphics?
The 360 isnt innovative and i never claimed it was. But now that you mention it i guess those wireless controllers were innovative, its dashboard setup is quite clever and it was the first HD-ready system to be released. (that sounds like gushing, but im just stating the facts)Also it sure as hell has some power behind it and offers an amazing gaming experiance and a better online component then ANY other system, as well as having a very exciting future ahed of it with games like Halo 3 and GTA4 and Assassins Creed on the horizon.
Its not just about the graphics, the games the system has offers both great gameplay and fantastic visuals and sound, which all adds to the experiance.
Seems your just being biased for Nintendo now. What i suppose do YOU consider to have "WOW" to it then?
Never said it was a bad console. I really do want one, for when Ninja Gaiden 2, Halo 3, DMC4, and GTA4 come out.
But now we know you're a Microsoft Fanboy. Don't deny it, you've been cataloged.
So it has killer apps. The only reason for that is because it has time. Wireless? Every system has wireless controllers, they just don't push them on you. Xbox Live? So what? I don't want to pay an extra $15 a month for multiplayer I'll never use. (Wii's is free, by the way)
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