People tended to get a bit excited, especially while playing Wii sports and in some cases the control would come loose from their hands," said company spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa. "The new strap will be almost twice as thick."

Straps aside, the new console has been a big hit for Nintendo, with more than 325,000 machines sold in Europe, more than 600,000 in the US and more than 400,000 in Japan on launch day alone.{moscomment}