The Wii-mote, Nintendo Wii's remote, has caused many accidents that can be hilarious or tragic. This humorous article lists some of the more famous accidents and discusses how to prevent them. Keep your Wii-mote from destroying your house and friendships today.
The Nintendo Wii, the most popular next generation console, boasts family fun and entertainment, but all over the internet, the Nintendo Wii is also known for being associated with hilarious accidents involving the controller. Some of the accidents are simply hilarious incidents to be told between friends or shared on the internet, but some of them are quite serious.
Most Wii accidents involve the remote smashing into something or someone. Some fault Nintendo’s flimsy design with the wrist strap. Others forgo the wrist strap and end up regretting it. Still others get so involved in the gameplay that they fail to notice that their hands are getting sweaty and slick, creating the perfect storm for Wii controller disaster. A number of Wii accidents involve furniture, fans, and even pets when players get involved in the games and forget everything else in the room.
Wii-motes regularly smash TVs. Rather, I should say that players are regularly smashing TVs with their Wii-motes gone wild, and it is always a $3,000 plasma screen television being destroyed by a flying controller. Strangely enough, these players always manage to catch themselves playing on video, allowing the rest of the world to enjoy the horror of obliterating an expensive piece of electronic equipment.
Most of the TV destructions have come from a combination of high-action and overzealous players. Bowling from Wii Play and Tennis from Wii Sports seem to be the biggest culprits in Wii-mote accidents involving smashed TVs. One of the ugliest disasters involves a man and his Wii-mote, his Christmas tree (as a witness), and a very nice plasma TV. The crowning touch of this video involves the man lightly tapping his TV as if that will somehow fix the gigantic crater his enthusiastic bowling has created.
Thankfully, most of the accidents documented on the internet are true accidents rather than the TV destruction rages that once occured with games like Virtua Tennis.