Game Politics blog is following this developing story – someone else is trying to get some moolah out of Nintendo again for tossing their Wiimotes through their TVs.  I can’t say I’ve done it, but I guess it could happen.

From the blog:

Filed on December 2nd by Colorado resident Molly Elvig, the new class-action suit mostly picks up right where the old left off… Argued by the same lawyer… This time, Nintendo is also being accused of covering up evidence from the very Consumer Product Safety Commission with which they created the Wii Strap replacement program.

“Despite actual knowledge of hundreds of incidents involving broken televisions over time and subsequent to December 27, 2006,” reads the complaint, “Defendant failed to report the existence of even a single ‘Incident’ to the CPSC in its Monthly Reports to the CPSC.”

This doesn’t seem like a spurious accusation, either. Attached to the court filing as a matter of public record is the very evidence Nintendo allegedly tried to hide: actual, internal Nintendo documents where customer service reps received complaints of cracked televisions and broken Wiimote straps — and the corresponding Monthly Reports that Nintendo was compelled to file with the CPSC as part of their agreement…  you don’t need to be a lawyer to see that the numbers don’t add up.

More as it happens.

Tags: Game Politics, lawsuit, TV, wiimote
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