Defective Wii becomes effective shuriken thrower

Posted Nov 25, 2006 at 11:20AM by QJ Staff Listed in: Wii Tags:

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The world is divided among the Haves and the Have-nots. But we're not talking about the material sense here. We're talking about luck. Chance has something to do with it too, and when you're dealing with a defective Wii, that's just plain bad luck.

We've got a sob story in Wii-landia today. DOTQWERTY218 bought a console last November 19, and based on what she said, after more than 24 hours of usage, her console started to have hitches. While some people might be having problems with some network connections, this one's a bit more hardware-related. Slide in, spit out, click in, check out:

Were you able to notice that clicking sound when she put the disc in? I'm no Wii surgeon, but that definitely doesn't sound healthy. Well, for what it's worth, (hey, we're all Nintendo family here anyways) I think she needs a big hug! And if we look on the bright side, if she's harassed by Wiimote mutilators, she could slip in some shurikens and let her ninja-Wii defend her.

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Comments

# Owch — Guest 2006-11-25 08:37

That must hurt... A new Wii, broken within a matter of hours. I know I'd be devastated.

# This what happends — Guest 2006-11-25 09:13

Dont try to put a PS3 game or it wont work

# Mine is having problems too. — III AnubisX III 2006-11-25 09:15

Occaisonally the wiimotes wont turn the system on and I'll have to turn it on manually and resync the remotes.

# FAKe — Guest 2006-11-25 09:25

Notice that it only comes out when she touches the back

# Er — Guest 2006-11-25 09:28

There's no proof it's a Wii disc being put in. Fake until proven real.

# fake — Guest 2006-11-25 09:48

i dont think thats a wii disc he's putting dose eny 1 no wat happens wen u put a dvd or cd in the wii?

# :( — Guest 2006-11-25 11:19

this happened to me to after i dropped my wii out the window, wii no play :(

# yea — Guest 2006-11-25 11:54

mine has some issues...synching sometimes...now i'm able to turn it on...don't know what i did.

# heh — Guest 2006-11-25 12:23

This disc is not wii disc..he is use different disc and that's stupid.

# fools — Haki 2006-11-25 13:09

you idiots it dosen't matter what disc she used i just put a 360 game in my wii and it went in fine the point is that her she wont accept any disc

# mm — Guest 2006-11-25 14:09

Two years ago I bought a PSP and I had to face and accept the nintendo-fans laughs about the disc spitting thingie.

Same happened to the Wii. Half baked console launched early with a lot of design flaws. Sincerely, I didn't expect something like this from Nintendo since they always had their own rythm.

Divine justice.

# hey! — ZYXWVUT 2006-11-25 14:54

Nintendo said they'd replace these things, so it doesn't really matter. All PSPs still come with the flaw, though.

# not the same — Guest 2006-11-25 15:32

this is 1 person having this error(Expect alot of wannabes now trying to get 15min of news fame now) the psp had a widespread common issue that as of today still is in new models. u cant compare the 2 nintnedo has still had the console with the least about of issues compared to sony and ms. i still find it odd how she has to shake it everytime it ejects.

# backwards — Guest 2006-11-25 15:41

maybe the disk is supposed to go in the other way so the labes is facing us.....just a thought

# Nope — Guest 2006-11-25 17:33

it's facing the correct direction....

Dvd drive is damaged

# wrong — Guest 2006-11-25 17:34

No, it doesn't matter what way the Wii disc goes in. It should still go in anyways.

# . — KirbySS 2006-11-25 19:08

That's a shame. I love the noise the disc makes when it hits the ground though.

# hehe — Guest 2006-11-26 09:11

Haha, you got owned!

# thanks? — Guest 2006-11-28 15:50

Hey thanks for the article. One correction though I'm not a girl. lol I think the misunderstandin g was that my youtube account had the wrong name on there as nicole but I changed it to the correct name now. anyways I contacted Nintendo and they said I will get a new one within 4 days.

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