Wii Repair Update

[feilong801]

I should have posted this awhile ago, but better late then never.

 

I did indeed get my Wii back, freshly repaired from Nintendo. Actually, they sent me a different Wii altogether. Fine by me, especially since they managed to keep all of my data intact. All I had to do was redownload my VC games (free, obviously). The only casualty is that my Miis aren't editable anymore, but that's hardly a big deal.

 

I was surprised to find that even my VC save states were intact, depite having to redownload the games. Pretty sweet, since I had progressed pretty far into some of them.

 

All in all, it took Nintendo a little less then 2 weeks to get my Wii and send it back. A good experience, well, as good as having a bad console can be, I guess.

 

The one good thing about waiting before making this post: My new Wii isn't showing any signs of graphics glitching or overheating.

 

-Rob

[Steerforth]

I havn't heard much about Wii or PS3 failures, and I kind of expected to. Even when it is a small percantage, it often gets played up. There was a big media event over defective 360's on their launch, which may or may not have been warranted, I personally do not know. The PS3 was supposed to be especially ill fated, so was that all hype?

 

Also, Paul Campbell, did you get your wimote to work?

[andrew]

[QUOTE=Steerforth]

 The PS3 was supposed to be especially ill fated, so was that all hype?

 

[/QUOTE]

I don't think so. Many of the demo units end up failing to work by the end of the day at futureshop, bestbuy, and wal-mart. You can't really say their abused because you can't access th machine and gamecube, ps2's and espcially the n64 never had OUT OF ORDER signs on them.

[Paul Campbell]

[QUOTE=Steerforth]

I havn't heard much about Wii or PS3 failures, and I kind of expected to. Even when it is a small percantage, it often gets played up. There was a big media event over defective 360's on their launch, which may or may not have been warranted, I personally do not know. The PS3 was supposed to be especially ill fated, so was that all hype?

 

Also, Paul Campbell, did you get your wimote to work?

[/QUOTE]

 

Yup.  I actually forgot it was even broken, and then when a friend and I played Madden '07 it worked fine.

[bluemonkey1]

Just to mention with my 360.  MS got it back to me within a week, paid all the shipping costs, didn't require me to send back the hard drive so I kept all my data too.

 

You probably got a refurbished unit, not a brand new one.

[feilong801]

Yeah, it was most likely someone else's repair. I would guess they repair units and send those back and repair the one you sent in later, to keep the pipeline going. Don't care as long as it works.

 

-Rob