Kyoto (Japan) - Super Smash Bros Brawl is one of the most talked about video games for any console, but players in Japan have come to realize that their Wii must be free of dust and smoke for the game to operate.

Super Smash Bros Brawl is the first Wii game written on a dual-layer disc.  Nintendo says this makes it more vulnerable to external conditions that could have an impact on the console's ability to read game content.

Specifically, Nintendo has pointed out that tobacco smoke is the most problematic environmental hazard, with dust also creating errors in disc reading.

To the surprise of many, Nintendo recently opened up a customer service website for this specific issue, and it will even repair any Wii that cannot play the game free of charge, regardless of whether or not it is still under warranty.

Nintendo has not commented on how it will handle this problem for the US release of the game, which is scheduled for March 9.

Way to go Nintendo

Feb 06, 2008 07:47     

Kudos needs to be given to Nintendo for providing this level of ucstomer service. It's nice to see that some comapnies still care about thier customers.
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Also reads...

Feb 06, 2008 08:31     

"We use cheap laser units in our reworked Gamecube" Tobacco smoke, almost choked laughing tbh.
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This wont work for me.

Feb 06, 2008 09:36     

I smoke and toke while gaming. Cant have one without the other. Looks like all systems have some sort of problem now.
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Tobacco bad for games?

Feb 06, 2008 10:56     

It seems tobacco is not only bad for people (one of the leading causes of cancer in people) but also bad for some games. I think they should take all the fields that are used to grow tobacco and use it to grow thing that can be used to make ethanol for fuel.
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Smoking is bad!

Feb 06, 2008 11:16     

Now there is a one more thing second hand smoke can kill... your games. Go go big tobacco.
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first the delays and now this!!!

Feb 06, 2008 16:21     

ive been waiting for this game for almost a year and now it might not work!My friend went up to me the other day and said "wasnt the original release date in march"? and then I said yeah of last year!!
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too bad

Feb 06, 2008 17:47     

Smokers won't get the message. You can show them a blackened cancerous lung and they still don't get it. This will be the Wii's fault...smokers are never at fault!
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@spammage

Feb 07, 2008 06:22     

Have you seen what tobacco does to your walls if you smoke indoors for years? The walls get yellow from nicotine not even speaking of the smell. With modern "hi-tech" electronics, like consoles, it's no wonder that tobacco smoke might just get inside the case and cause some trouble (like covering the laser just enough so it won't work properly...)
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Why worry?

Feb 07, 2008 13:28     

If you dont really smoke in the same room of your console, why worry? Beesides, theres more than just smoke in japans air. Why do you think they wear masks in documenterys and stuff?
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Re: Also Reads

Feb 07, 2008 19:12     

As a computer tech, I see this constantly with CD drives. This is not a matter of cheap laser units. Any CD drive will be clogged up by smoke from tobacco or cigarettes. Smokers are absolutely clueless about what that smoke does not only to themselves, but to electrical equipment. Look inside a smokers computer, it's freaking disgusting.
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RE: Why worry?

Feb 07, 2008 21:30     

"theres more than just smoke in japans air. Why do you think they wear masks in documenterys and stuff?" uh.... Maybe because they often live in cramped cities and don't want to spread germs when sick.
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@Halomiester

Feb 07, 2008 22:57     

Having lived in Japan for a year, those masks you see in the videos are normally warn when either 1) you are sick and are being mindful to the other people riding the train with you or 2) you are being cautious because of sickness going around. When you live in a country the size of California but with a population of nearly 130 million, it can be very easy to pass an illness around. With that being said, its not industrial air pollution thats killing the Wii's, its your own home made air pollution. Either you gotta quit, not smoke around your Wii, or maybe put an ionic breeze or something next to it and hope it helps.

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Cool!

Feb 08, 2008 12:51     

Now if that isn't a good quit smoking campaign, I don't know what is! Smoking sucks.
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Lets be honest...... @ Task

Feb 09, 2008 04:23     

I've smoked in front of countless optical media based consoles, not like a Cheech and Chong movie, from PS1 (notoriously weak, cheap laser unit) up to current consoles. No problems. The point I was making is that it is Nintendo FUD to suggest that smoking might prohibit the reading of a DVD9, rather than technical limitation of the hardware, the pre-emptive offer of a replacement from the Big N proves this fact. Most of the crap inside a computer is airborn dust, sourced mostly from human hair/skin, that is disgusting. Dust and heat is the biggest laser killer. As a "computer tech" Task would know this.

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Nothing new, Smoke has been destroying Hard Drives

Feb 09, 2008 12:19     

since there have been hard drives. The tiny particles can eventually get paste the rubber seal and cause a nice scratch when the heads hit it and drag it or crush it into the platters of the hard drive. This is the same thing only blocking a laser that is trying to read data.
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