"Calm down" with the Wii Remote says Miyamoto

[wraggster]

On the eve of the European Wii launch, word has come from Japan that gamers are getting too excited with the Wii and accidentally throwing the Wii Remote towards their TV sets.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has acknowledged the issue and is preparing to hold an internal investigation.

"Of course before the launch of the Wii hardware Nintendo had a number of tests on the durability of everything including the strap," Iwata told reporters in Japan. "But our understanding right now is that even beyond our expectations people are becoming more and more excited playing with the Wii."

Shigeru Miyamoto added, "We are encouraging people to understand that you really don't have to be so excited but rather you need to understand the control and then you're going to be the best player.

"We are looking into the situation to see if there are additional methods to encourage people to kind of calm down so they would never throw away the controller itself."

Via cvg

[ICE]

*rofl* thats hilarious. people are so dumb they cant control themselves.

[Stump]

hmm! your right hallsguitar.. very right

[pkmusicmaker]

Nintendo shouldn't have to spend time worrying about people dumb enough to throw the remote at someone's face. This is why everything takes so long, because they cant focus on the important things for us "calm" people.

[C0R3F1GHT3R]

*waits for fat people trying to sue Nintendo because their idea of a Wii being a workout didn't turn out well*

[archangel1024]

*sigh* mys sisters are like this, no injuries yet, however in less than a week, both remote went through the batteries it came with.