Been a rough past few days as the weather has played havoc on my system here in Texas leaving not only me with various cold related issues, but my Wii seems to have also started acting up. Perhaps it’s sympathy but nonetheless, it’s started to make the sound of a drill or something similar when starting up now. Like a groaning whine that is fairly inconsistent meaning it doesn’t do it constantly or all the time, but about 90% of the time. I figured it’s time to send it in before the warranty is out, no? We don’t smoke but we do have 3 cats in the house, maybe some cat hair snuck in and clogged up a motor or two. Whatever the problem, I’ll be contacting Nintendo support very soon to go through the motions of getting it fixed and I thought as a treat for those that aren’t quite sure what’s involved in getting your Wii repaired, I would video the whole experience to show how painless (or painful) the process is. I hear Nintendo is great with customer service, so I expect it to be a no issue and overall very positive video. To be clear, the system still plays perfectly and has not scratched a disk, I just don’t want this situation to go from hairy to worse after my warranty expires.

This leads us to this week’s poll where I wonder if any of you fine readers have had to have your Wii repaired. I know other console failure rates are large enough that a poll of this sort would perhaps garner a 30% rate of failure in terms of who has vs who has not had an issue, but I’m not sure I expect to see too many of you out there that have had to send their Wii in as of yet. It’s really a very stable machine that hasn’t been prone to failure. So without further ado: