Deja Voodoo: Nintendo slapped with class-action lawsuit over Wiimote strap

This just isn’t Nintendo‘s year. How many times have they been sued now? I can’t keep count anymore. This time they may be facing a class-action lawsuit, a.k.a, the angry mob with broken television sets because of faulty Wiimote straps.

This just isn’t Nintendo‘s year. How many times have they been sued now? I can’t keep count anymore.

This time they may be facing a class-action lawsuit, a.k.a, the angry mob with broken television sets because of faulty Wiimote straps.

This is familiar territory for Nintendo. They’ve been sued for the same thing way back in 2006, within weeks of the Wii’s release. The carnage of broken TV sets across the country caused Nintendo to offer replacement straps for over 3.2 million Wiimotes.

While that seemed to have solved the problem, it seems the issue persists until today. Colorado resident Molly Elvig, who filed the class-action lawsuit, accuses Nintendo of covering up evidence from the Consumer Product Safety Commission that the Wiimote is still on its serial spree of breaking TV sets:

Despite actual knowledge of hundreds of incidents involving broken televisions over time and subsequent to December 27, 2006. The defendant [Nintendo] failed to report the existence of even a single ‘Incident’ to the CPSC in its Monthly Reports to the CPSC.

Although I’m sure that some of the “incidents” she mentioned were actually caused by negligence to actually wear the strap, I am concerned that Nintendo didn’t report the ones that were caused by faulty straps. Unless I believe that every strap they issued since their last lawsuit didn’t break, which I don’t.

• CNN looks into the Wiimote strap dilemma
• Nintendo continues its “Use the Wiimote Strap” campaign
• Nintendo to give away free Wii Remote Jackets

Via GameCyte