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I figured they would do this. Everyone claiming they'd do a full-blown recall was nuts. Semi-related: Nintendo is great at this stuff. When Mario Party hit for
by rriepe 16y ago
I figured they would do this. Everyone claiming they'd do a full-blown recall was nuts.
Semi-related: Nintendo is great at this stuff. When Mario Party hit for the N64, a lot of its mini-games required rotating the control stick fast. A lot of players would switch from using their thumbs to using their palms to rotate it faster.
The result? Blisters and redness on the palms of kids across the nation.
What did Nintendo do? They sent out free gloves to anyone that wanted one.
- mikeryan 16y agoThey did the same with the wii controllers when they started slipping off and breaking big-screen tvs during a furious game of tennis. Free rubber Wii controller wrappers. (... having hard time not calling them controller condoms as I try to describe them)
- elai 16y agoThey're too thick and have too much structure to be bag like. And now every wii controller you buy has one of them attached to it.
- IgorPartola 16y agoMy conspiracy theory (and I don't have many) is that late in the development of the phone they discovered this feature. A meeting was called. They figured out they were looking at a recall. Then someone came up with a brilliant solution: let's make cases, sell them at first, see if someone notices the problem. If people do, we'll just give them a free case, instead of throwing out a $500 phone. Then the cases were developed very quickly. I have no proof or evidence, just a hunch. I said this before the announcement today, and I think today may give some circumstantial evidence of this fact. Wonder if it's possible to find out when it is that they started working on these bumpers.
- JeffJenkins 16y agoI actually did that in Mario Party. I tore a bit of my skin and it was red and raw for weeks.