so I bought a wii for my 8 year old cousin...

[youjiro]

DarkNight_DS said:

youjiro said:

DarkNight_DS said:

youjiro said:

Galaki said:
It was The Perfect Plan. Just didn't work out :)

Why don't you just swap games for a month or something?

I would love to do that... but my wii is not working at the moment, so i need to send it off for repairs. If i had ended up with those games however it would have motivated me enough to send it off to get fixed.

The only reason why u haven't got it fixed yet is because i haven't bought new games for it, and I' not willing to spend money on games when my console isn't working... however if it was a free game like madworld i would send it off in a heartbeat... and yes i know i sound cheap but times are hard right now

 

Go send your Wii off for it's free repair and then come back.

 

i would love to but its not free. warranty expired and i checked with nintendo they said it could cost either £30 or £70 to fix, but they wont know until they get it in

 

Sometimes when you send an expired console in to Nintendo they fix it and send it back without a charge.  If you had bought a bunch of VC games and registered a lot of DS and Wii games with Nintendo.com they would have looked up your record and not quoted a repair cost.

Send it in anyway and get it fixed.  It's well worth the time and whatever little money they charge.  Chances are you could argue out the bill with them when they call you to tell you the cost.  I've never heard of them being unreasonable.

Also, what's broke on the console?

 

basically my little cousin put something in the disc drive and i put a wii game in there without knowing and when i tried to turn it on it wouldn't go to the wii menu, then when i tried to eject the disc it refused to let it out. I eventually managed to get the disc out and managed to get to the wii menu, but then it wouldn't play any games and i can hear something rattling around in the wii.