Tag: Wrist Strap

My daughter had this fetish for slap bracelets for a while. You could be just walking down the hall and she would run up and slap a bracelet around your wrist hard enough to leave a red welt.

Whether or not you believe all of the incidents that have occurred due to a faulty wrist strap on Nintendo’s Wii controller, Nintendo certainly doesn’t want to take any chances and today issued a recall, and started offering free replacement wrist straps. This confirms our earlier report that Nintendo had started to ship new straps with newer controllers already.

After a number of concerns about easily broken wrist straps on the Nintendo Wii’s “Wii-mote” controller (and Nintendo’s denial that anything was wrong other than aggressive game play), it appears that Nintendo has started to include improved straps with recently shipped consoles. From this comparison image posted on GoNintendo, it’s clear that there are much thicker cords on these controllers than were in the initial shipments.