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Nintendo charging huge extra for repairs if they detect homebrew on your Wii? |
Listed in: Wii Tags: Bushing, Nintendo
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Some recent evidence posted by Wiibrew developer Bushing has revealed that Nintendo may now be charging an extra fee for repairing a homebrew-capable Wii, as seen in the receipt scan to the right. Bushing explains, "My GermanÂ’s pretty bad, but I see "Â…. Softwarehack Â… EUR 210". That seems awfully excessive, given that the price of a new Wii is EUR 250, no?"
The dev also mentioned an email sent last month informing him that Nintendo is indeed now enforcing the "no homebrew" rule. The email explained that since a homebrew-enabled Wii would be considered out of warranty, repair costs could go up by approximately 180 to 210 Euros.
The issue here seems to be the huge additional repair costs, not the fact that a homebrew-enabled Wii is considered out of warranty. Here's Bushing's take on this:
This is unacceptable. I was under the impression that most out-of-warranty repairs were in the $75 - $100 range — and this email came with a note saying that the most expensive (common?) repair is to replace the drive for 90€.
Should Nintendo have to pay to repair hacked Wiis under warranty? Maybe not, but they have no (moral) right to gouge customers out of spite for having the HBC installed.
Here's more:
As some has noted, this creates a financial incentive for anyone with a "Softwarehack"ed Wii ($25 for Nintendo to fix, but they'll charge you $200) to find a way to damage it further ($85 for Nintendo to fix, but they will only charge you $75).
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Via HackMii
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the warranty states, like just about every other one, if you hack it in some way *open, edit, etc* you void the warranty thus you should get screwed out of a fix period! since their reinstating a warranty that you have no knowledge of its illegal =\
though the people whom replied here saying you "own a wii" clearly dont know what exactly a wii is, since you dont own that box that plays wii games you call a "wii" *but thats enough of that*
by law, since the warranty is voided they either have to Decline your clame, or do it as terms of the warranty! i never agreed to a term saying if i hack it i will be subject to pay more! thus it can be construed as illegal =P
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This was only about a month and a half ago.
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This was only about a month and a half ago.
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exclusion of warranty, reason:
modification of internal software was applied,
Softwarehack.
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did you read the license that came with the device?
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/privacyEULA.jsp
"Your Wii Console and the Wii Network Service are not designed for use with unauthorized software, services, or devices or non-licensed accessories, and you may not use any of these with your Wii Console or the Wii Network Service. Such use may be illegal, voids any warranty, and is a breach of this agreement. (...). If we detect unauthorized software, services, or devices, your access to the Wii Network Service may be disabled and/or the Wii Console or games may be unplayable. "
technically - you can. legally - you cannot.
nintendo simply introduced such pricing for repairs to discourage people from modding their wii's. as long as there is no 3rd party repair service (or are there?) they can put up such ridiculous pricing.
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I just sent my Wii for repair and got a letter from nintendo asking to Pay 200 pound if i wanted it fixed!! the fault says; un-athourised Homebrew Channel!! heres the thing, I bought it with the Homebrew Channel already installed 2nd hand, Cleaned it up (removed Homebrew Channel).....
Theres no Homebrew at all on there! And i need my DVD Drive Fixed SO i cant get mine fixed because Someone else Had allready had homebrew on there???
Very Unfair but whod belive it...
and what are they detecting anyway its all been removed????
oh well
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Nintendo Repair Shop
www.nintendorepairshop.com
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