Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
In our story, of December 18 2006 "Nintendo strap replacement an admission of guilt", we postulated that Nintendo could be facing some legal issues after initiating its Wiimote strap replacement program. For that, we were scolded by some Nintendo fanboys. Nevertheless, we were right - Nintendo has been slapped with its own strap.
According to a CNET report, law firm Green
Welling has lodged a class action lawsuit stating that "Nintendo's
failure to include a remote that is free from defects is in breach of
Nintendo's own product warranty" was almost inevitable.
The irony of it is that Nintendo stands to be brought down on this issue by its own honorable and responsible behaviour.
A less responsible company would have admitted nothing and stood by its
product. Nintendo, however, virtually admitted that the star attraction
of its new wildly popular Wii console was a potentially unsafe
projectile by offering to replace the restraining wrist straps on 3.2
million consoles.
While the Nintendo gesture is indeed admirable, the inescapable
conclusion is that Nintendo itself believes its original straps were
not good enough. Neither does it help the company's cause legally to
give belated advice to players not to let go of the console or dry
their sweaty hands before playing. It just adds to the case that the
controller is potentially dangerous in the hands of over enthusiastic
players.
There have been some suggestions that the other console makers could
face similar lawsuits. In short, these suggestions are nonsense.
Neither the Sony PS3 nor Xbox 360 controllers are potential projectiles
and neither require restraining straps.
This is not to say that the problems that Nintendo faces with the
Wiimote are anything more than a small hiccup in the future success of
the console. In fact, the company is probably lucky that the issue
surfaced so early before anything really serious happened. With new
straps in place, the next 20 or 30 million consoles sold should cause
no further problems.
David Bass
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