Wii Remote - How durable is it?
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 at 1:57pm by David
I was playing a little Cooking Mama: Cook Off this weekend and smacked my Wii Remote on the corner of the coffee table while I was grinding some meat. (..in the game, you sickos..) Its glossy coat is chipped a little bit, but the remote still works fine and hasn’t been fazed by the abuse. Considering how responsive the Wii Remote is for tilting and pointing, I can’t believe how durable it actually is.
Anyone else smack, smash, or smoosh a Wii Remote only to have it work just fine?
May 15th, 2007 at 2:14 pm
on the release date me and my buddy were playing baseball and of course we had to do the full motions, so he pitched the ball i went for a full out swing and our hands/wii motes smashed into each other and mine still work fine…another time one of my buddies went for a serve in tennis and the wiimote went smashing into the ceiling…no damage done
May 15th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
A few months ago my roommate was bowling and on his follow-through he let go of the wiimote and it flew roughly 15 feet in the air and hit our refrigerator.
Still works like a charm!
May 15th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Over the Christmas holiday, my neighbors and I were playing Wii Tennis into the early hours of the morning. One of them is in the naval academy and could crush a rock with his bare hands (figuratively speaking). He got a little too into one backhanded swing and the remote flew out of his hands at lightening speed, missed my head by inches, and flew into the wall. It left two square shaped holes in the wall, for the initial impact and the little skip it took after that first hit. It sounded like a shotgun went off and we didn’t know what happened until after it was over.
I picked up the remote, and it was a little dislocated so I snapped it back into place and I’ve been using it everyday since. The glossy white paint is dull in the places it ate drywall, but other than that, it’s perfect!
May 15th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Mine got smashed into a carpeted floor and has been knocked around but it’s still going strong. That’s Nintendo Power!
May 15th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
I smacked one into the ceiling directly above my head and it continued to work just fine. I did have a skin on it, which may have provided some protection. And, yes, the accident was caused by a broken version 1.0 strap. I no longer wear baggy pants while wii-bowling.
May 15th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
I have had a Wiimote die on its own, however. The accelerometers quit working for no apparent reason. Ninty promptly sent me a replacement per the warranty.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I’ve slammed mine into friends, tables, walls, other wiimotes, and on one occasion, a running ceiling fan, and it’s still as accurate as ever. God bless that little trooper.
May 15th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I’ve only had two minor mishaps with Wiimotes so far…
First, shortly after getting our Wii in November, my wife and I were playing Wii Sports Baseball, and one of our kids (3 years old) wandered into the playing field. He got whacked in the head by my wife’s Wiimote accidentally; no damage to the Wiimote, and more importantly, only a minor bump to my son’s head.
More recently (this past Saturday), we had some friends over for my brother-in-law’s couples wedding shower, and after a while we busted out the Wii to enjoy some tennis, etc. At one point I was picking up the Wiimote to join in, when it slipped from my hand and landed in a piece of cake! A minimal amount of frosting got into the expansion port, but the thing has still worked just fine since.
May 15th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
I’ve seen one flung away and another smash against the floor and so far no problems and no scratches. They’re definitely durable, I was expecting a bit of fragility due to the sensors but those fears were unfounded.
Another quality Nintendo product.
May 15th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
i’m constantly dropping mine on the floor after throwing it up in the air ant catching it, all nintendo controllers seem to be great in that field, unlike the dualshock whose controller rattles and has a faulty X button….
May 15th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Well, one controller flew of a friend’s hand playing tennis breaking strap 1.0 smashing in the hall wall 5 meters away, works well!!! The other one suffered a little more, my cousin trying to catch a ball Wii tennis again, jumped to his right inflicted a fatal Ippon on a wooden chair, broke the chair, almost broke his hand, broke the battery cover clip, but the remote itself just works fine!!! Amazing stuff!!! When this occured the sheer violence of the blow & the instant death of my chair made me think that the Wii-mote had exploded in thousand pieces, but to my great surprise, despite being acquainted to Nintendo durability, the fucker was alive & kicking, these controllers are made of Adamatium I guess…
May 15th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
This is a weird new commenting interface…
Anywho - I’ve sadly smacked my Wii Remote, only to have it not work! Yes, yes, it’s true. I was playing Monkey Ball and I had to make some weird gestures and it got me into moving my arms back and forth like I was running (Wiimote and Nunchuk) and I smacked the two together by accident and now it doesn’t work. So I’ve got 3 remotes, and 2 nunchuks. Both nunchuks work but that one Wiimote doesn’t work anymore (as far as like swinging a tennis racket goes, it works with pointing.)
May 16th, 2007 at 12:07 am
I’ve slammed one into my girlfriend’s elbow (whoops) and also into the ceiling (drinking + wii = possible damage). All 4 of my remotes, despite their rough treatment, work perfectly.
May 16th, 2007 at 5:08 am
I brought my Wiimotes over to a friend’s house. I accidently dropped both my Wiimotes on the hard cement from a standing height and it made the most horrific sound. The bottoms are all scratched up, but fortunately, they both still work perfectly fine.
May 16th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
i bought my wii last month, since i had it everyone playing it has gotten hurt in some way or another. i am moving out to bc, so i was packing my stuff up and my cusin was playing baseball, one handed. i picked up one of my black lights to put it in a box, before i set it down i stopped and was talkign to my g/f. well my cusin swung to his fullest only to connect with the jegged edge of the black light with a huge crack. snyways, first thought in my head was that it was the controller getting destoyed, and he hit a home run which was his concern. i followed the flying stream of blood to his hand only to find out my controller was soaked in blood but later (after he got cleaned up) found out the remote worked fine
May 16th, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Yeah, I had a birthday party and some of my friends were playing the newly released Wii (this was back in 2006). One of my friends released the remote like releasing a bowling ball and the wrist strap snapped and went flying. At that very moment another one of my friends was walking in front of the TV and the remote hit his head and deflected up above my TV (most likely saving it from being destroyed). That left the remote with about 2 small cracks and a piece chipped off the front left corner. It still works just as it worked the day I opened it up!
May 26th, 2007 at 2:08 am
“And, yes, the accident was caused by a broken version 1.0 strap. I no longer wear baggy pants while wii-bowling.”
Bullshit. Broken version 1.0 strap was caused by the accident/stupidity, not the other way around.
The strap won’t fucking break if you hold the fuck on to the controller. Don’t go blaming your stupidity on a “weak strap.” Nintendo would have made the thing stronger had they figured idiots would be out there who would chuck the fuck out of their controllers… For fuck’s sake, people, you are the problem here - you let go - stop blaming other people for your fuck-ups.