Comments on: My Adventure with a Broken Wii

By: Adam Ketcheson

Adam Ketcheson — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:37:02 +0000

I have had dreadful customer service with Nintendo since the first time out of a trilogy of mailing our Nintendo Wii into the HQ in Vancouver. The first time, a year ago, we had sent it in for repairs due to the entire Brawl issue which I’m sure some of you here have heard of, and recieved it around a month later – it had worked well up until the very end of the year when it decided to give up on us again. Frustrated but determined we had choen to return it once more to Nintendo in order to have them work their magic on it. We had recieved it after around 3 more weeks of waiting, and immediately after we recieved it we were DISTRAUGHT to find that it was malfunctioning once more for a THIRD time. So, what we have diceded to do is package up our Nintendo Wii equipment, take the over $180 in trade-ins we can earn, take the controllers, system and everything to our local game store, in exchange for Microsoft’s highly superior system, the Xbox 360.

I would highly suggest AGAINST sending your Wii in – you’ll end up with nothing but a broken Wii AGAIN.

Shame on Nintendo. xD

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:21:48 +0000

My Wii has recently gone on the fritz too (not dead yet though). Every now and then it incorrectly displays colours – greens and blues become the same fuzzy green-blue shade, and colours in general are very muted and dull. Can’t fix it, and it can last for over half an hour sometimes. It’s munted, cause my warranty is likely gone aswell (got it at launch).

By: chad

chad — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:56:25 +0000

David I admit the ps3’s motion controls are far from bieng anything close to the wii’s.
that is the one and only wii selling point to me though. and it kind of seems a little gimmicky to me.
my dislike for the wii could however be because of my view on “casual gaming” and the industry moving toward it.
just beacause the sales are higher for basic,simple, casual games are higher doeas not make them the better game at all.
im rabling on now but my final point is thatin my moderate amount of time spent with the wii I have to view it as a very last gen console.

By: David Macphail

David Macphail — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:41:00 +0000

Chad, the PS3 has many, MANY good points to it, however it’s motion controls are NOT one of them. There are maybe 2% of the PS3’s game library that use motion controls in any sense and about 0.0001% of games that fully incorporate motion controls.

The Nintendo Wii’s motion controls are spot – on, it’s just too bad it doesn’t have the software quality of the PS3 – then Nintendo would be sorted for life.

By: chad

chad — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:52:17 +0000

matt, dont worry the wii is garbage.
obviously the worst console, the motion control is a gimmick that dosent make up for the sub-par graphics….. id say if motion control is a big thing for you grab a ps3.
but cmon man…a wii?

By: Dane

Dane — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:24:01 +0000

I wonder if it is best to leave WiiConnect24 on or not…I recently turned it back on because the console would get warm. Supposedly, the Wii uses a minuscule amount of energy in standby with Connect’ on. Sorry to say, my Wii is out of warranty also. Should the Wii be warm when this mode is on? Also, sometimes my disc drive is load, and other times it purrs like a kitten. Super Smash Bros versus Mario Party 8 is a good example, where the former is louder than my 360.

By: Matt Banks

Matt Banks — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:56:29 +0000

Well, it’s out of warranty, so I had to pay. Whether they’ll tell me what’s wrong or not, I can’t say.

By: EHT

EHT — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:55:26 +0000

Do you think they”ll figure out the problem and tell you? To assure that it was the system’s ‘own’ fault or yours. I mean it’s clear that you hardly used it and whatnot so it can’t be your fault and you had to pay 90 bucks.

By: Matt Banks

Matt Banks — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:59:40 +0000

@Odie – can you shed light on what isn’t transferrable? I’m praying SSBB game save can be transferred by Nintendo, since I can’t copy it to my SD card. If I lose all of that time and work (I have over 2/3 of the unlockables), I’m going to be pissed.

Not too upset about the Mii thing. I have my important Mii’s on my Wii Remote anyway.

Did your Wii Friend Code change?

By: Odie

Odie — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:55:27 +0000

I had that problem within the warranty period. Only thing that stinks is the data transfer. Some things aren’t even transferrable. Now, I recently noticed that my transferred Mii’s are no longer considered created by me. WTF?