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The Not So Perfect Wii

While playing my Nintendo Wii a few weeks ago, I started seeing different colored pixels appearing randomly on the screen.

Wii Graphical Issues

From what I gather, the problem is caused by the Wii getting too hot in standby mode. Apparently the fan does not turn on in standby mode even when the Wifi is connected.

Luckily, it was still under warranty. After backing up my saves and content, I sent it to Nintendo for repair. About a week later I got a replacement Wii that works perfectly. To my surprise, my Virtual Console games, web browser, and saves were still there and working.

Hopefully this will not happen to the majority of Wii’s, we don’t need another Xbox 360 crisis on our hands.

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 19th, 2007 at 10:42 am and is filed under Wii. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “The Not So Perfect Wii”

  1. NooberoUno » Blog Archive » The Not So Perfect Wii - Part 2 Says:
    October 24th, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    […] getting my first Wii replaced, I turned it on for a few minutes to see that it was working properly and it was. I hadn’t […]

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