Wii Straps results in Class action lawsuit.

[8th lutz]

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...10&from=rss

 

Green Welling LLP filed a nationwide class action lawsuit on behalf of the owners of the Nintendo Wii against Nintendo of America, Inc., in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. The class action lawsuit arose as result of the defective nature of the Nintendo Wii. In particular, the Nintendo Wii game console includes a remote and a wrist strap for the remote. Owners of the Nintendo Wii reported that when they used the Nintendo remote and wrist strap, as instructed by the material that accompanied the Wii console, the wrist strap broke and caused the remote to leave the user's hand. Nintendo's failure to include a remote that is free from defects is in breach of Nintendo's own product warranty."

 

 

I think this should be thrown out. There had been warning about the Remote a first place. You got morons did the suing because their property was broken by the remote. The warning was don't throw your remote on instructions for the wii and the games had warnings against throwing wii remote.

Edited December 19, 2006 by 8th lutz

[+FujiSkunk]

A lawyer smelled money. That's all you need to know.

[Uzumaki]

It's basically a legal scam. Lawyers sniff around for a number of complaints, run an ad inviting people to come and join the lawsuit so lawyer could reap bigger profit, win the case, and everyone gets a $5 coupon while the lawyer buys a brand new Jaguar and begins another round of class action lawsuit.

 

Not just with gaming industry but also other like health (seen ads for abesto often, and some "unsafe" drugs), etc.

[+remowilliams]

Hooray for money grubbing scumbags!

 

[chrisbid]

its crap like this that will eventually hurt legit lawsuits

[deathtrappomegranate]

eventually

[JB]

"... Nintendo's failure to include a remote that is free from defects is in breach of Nintendo's own product warranty."

You mean the warranty that exists to provide a way to rectify problems?

 

I think this should be thrown out. There had been warning about the Remote a first place. You got morons did the suing because their property was broken by the remote. The warning was don't throw your remote on instructions for the wii and the games had warnings against throwing wii remote.

I agree.

It's like those people that sued because their kid had a seizure playing the GameCube and Nintendo didn't tell them it could cause seizures.

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Except that one was worse, because they DID tell them, and have been since the NES.

[Atariboy]

Is that why newer GC games (Zelda, Geist and Chibi Robo at least) have a DS style warning screen when you boot up?

Edited January 7, 2007 by Atariboy

[JB]

Is that why newer GC games (Geist and Chibi Robo at least) have a DS style warning screen when you boot up?

Bingo.

That actually started before the DS came out. The DS is just the first system to have it integrated into the hardware.

 

Apparently Nintendo figured if people are too stupid to read the safety insert even when there's big red letters telling them to on the box, they may as well imbed it in the games so absolutely no one can claim Nintendo didn't at least try.