Now, You *Can* Clean Your Wii Lens

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When Super Smash Bros. Brawl was released earlier this year, a small percentage of Wii consoles had problems reading the double-layer disc if there was grime caused by cigarette smoke on the lens of the disc drive. Back then, Nintendo issued this statement: "Nintendo has specialized cleaning equipment that can resolve this problem. (Please do NOT attempt to clean the lens yourself, as you may damage the system.)" Well, now you can clean it yourself thanks to Nintendo's first party lens cleaner. The Wii Lens Cleaner Set runs ¥800 (US$7.80) and is out sometime this month. Cigarette smoke cleaning is dandy, but why isn't there a stop smoking Wii game? Just think of the Wii-mote peripheral hi-jinx.

http://kotaku.com/5063040/now-you-ca...-your-wii-lens

Too bad that story was just a coverup. When I sent my Wii in for this problem, the repair order said "replaced disc drive". But I'm sure a lens cleaner would be helpful in other cases.