Wii Disaster Watch: 11/28/06 Edition
Yup, it's happened. The visual evidence of Wii disasters is starting to hit YouTube, and I'm carving out a front-row seat, popping some Orville Redenbacher, and...okay, I'll lay off on the movie theater metaphors.
You know, here at Crave we are usually nice, upstanding bloggers who don't like to have too many laughs at peoples' expenses (except each others'), but YouTube changes things a bit. I mean, it's not like most of these things are done with hidden cameras. When YouTube user "seamonkey420" filmed a video of his father's impressive hand injury from smacking into a stove while playing Wii bowling, I'm sure the dad in question was aware of the filming and subsequent YouTubing. Plus, you can't really see his face. So this, in my opinion, is fair game.
By the way, if you pass out at the sight of a small amount of blood, you might not want to watch this clip.
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Here a guy smashed his hand through an overhead lighting fixture, braking both the glass housing and the light bulb inside. His crime? Going for that killer overhand serve in Wii tennis.
For the best credibility CNET should only post videos which show concrete evidence that an injury has occured from use of the Nintendo Wii.
Lastly, I can't help but feel that Nintendo is being targeted a bit in all this since admittedly the video itself proclaims "This is what happens if you bowl in Wii Sports too close to a metal object," e.g. placing blame soley on the user himself. If the product itself is at fault, then sure, it deserves the bad press, but if it's just another case of 'user error', then let's just accept that people will always find a way to break products or use them improperly. :-)
Furthermore, a 65 year old man shouldn?t be playing anything wii. There is no way to know how that injury happened, and it is actually a **** poor YouTube video to begin with.
This is about some stupid lard who doesn't have the brains to figure out how much clear space to have around him when playing with his Wii. Just like any other company, Nintendo can't account for all the bloody nimrods out there. Thanks to YouTube, his deeds are now available for all to cherish.
I have a low ceiling in my basement, and whenever we pop on a game of Soul Calibur, some unlucky soul punches the air in excitement. Promptly resulting in bruised knuckles and swearing that would blush a sailor.
A warning to anyone else 'duh' enough to play swinging games around solid objects ; everything is weapon especialy in [b][i]your[/i][/b] hands.
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as for the injury, they can easily be avoided by paying attention to where your standing but again like most physical activites that occur indoors (ie DDR), the fun can override the logic.. :P
dad is on a good road to recovery and was playing 10 mins afterwards and then moved his chair farther from the stove. however, he still is going to get one after xmas he said. wiiiiiii!
nintendo hit the mark w/their target market (the usual non-gamer market).
- http://youtube.com/watch?v=988H9oOw55A
- by daddosplat December 11, 2006 9:00 AM PST
- ya thier everywhere spastic gamers unite!
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