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December 21, 2006
A week after announcing it would replace the wrist straps on 3.2 million Wii game controllers, Nintendo has been hit with a class action law suit.
The action seeks damages for "Nintendo's failure to include a remote that is free from defects" and contends NIntendo's failure is in breach of Nintendo's own product warranty.
At issue is the strength of the plastic wrist strap designed to keep the Wii's wand-like controller from slipping from exuberant users hands. The controller, which responds to body motion, sometimes is waved wildly as gamers play sports games like tennis and bowling.
Nintendo said it would replace the straps on its controllers with thicker ones, while urging players to show a little restraint in their arm and hand movements. The company had received reports of users accidentally flinging their controllers across the room, damaging windows, lamps and TV screens.
GamePro.com, a video game site, quotes a company official as saying the suit is totally groundless because the company is in the process of replacing the controller straps at no charge.
Nintendo released the Wii game console November 17th and said it expected to sell 4 million units by the end of the year.
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