While I agree that this is probably also a hardware defect rather than just "dirtiness", let's not get worked up over it while we don't even know what's the percentage of people who have those issues.

Some people say that it only happens with launch consoles, does anyone here have a counterexample?

It seems to be that it's far more prevalent in launch consoles (as defects tend to be) but it's not exclusive to them. If your console reads Brawl then it should be fine, it's not like the RRoD which could happen at any time.

>The DVD lens in the Wii is dirtier than the waste of life, human sesspool, talented actress and singer Paris Hilton.


Lol, + for Paris Hilton reference. :)

I'm sorry but Destructoid has just been going downhill over the last few months. I use to love the site but their stories are generally just stories posted six hours after Kotaku or jokes like this.

So because some one does some internet detectivery we're supposed to believe that out of the handful of Wii owners that are experiencing this problem that Nintendo is actually making some huge cover up?

I think it's both myself. Weak optical reading devices that make themselves more prevelant to dustyness in launch consoles.

Aka, unless your house is a real mess... it's likely due to the drive.  That likely can be fixed by their "cleaning solution".  Aka some sort of layer of something that likely got missed... and if it was bad enough you probably needed a new reader.

That was my theory as soon as i heard you had to send in your machine for a cleaning. Then again that's what NES had wanted you to do even up to the NES days.

Uh, destructoids is not a very credible site based on some of the articles I've seen there. I would wait for someone actually credible before you go grab the pitchforks.

Stop making your Wii dirty! STOP IT!

does it really matter whats causing it? Nintendo have acknowledged the problem - offered a solution with no cost and full postage and put in an easy to use full informed process to remove the stress of it all.

Even if they came out and said "we screwed up with using inferior parts in the launch models - we apologise" would you care any less?

This is perhaps why SSBB didn't get released in December as they foreseen this and knew they couldn't offer such a quick turnaround with the holiday sales, whatever the reason is it's obvious this way of reading the disks is gonna be used more in the future and it's good that they are taking steps now to ensure the problem is handled.

I was usnsure about getting SSBB as fighting games have never appealled to me personally but now i'm going to just to ensure my wii is working correctly as it is a launch model.