Attention all you wild gamers: Nintendo is so concerned that the cord attaching your Wiimote to its wrist strap might snap – sending Wiimote sailing across the room and into your precious TV – they’re stepping up with a fix.

The company announced today it will replace about 3.2 million wrist straps for controllers that work with the popular Wii game console. The voluntary exchange program comes in the wake of countless reports of wrist straps fraying and controllers slipping out of users’ hands during vigorous play with the motion-sensing devices.

It’s a tough blow for Nintendo, which has found a sweet spot with the Wii as it battles Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 in the fiercely competitive computer gaming market. The replacement program is expected to cost Nintendo several million dollars.

Nintendo will allow customers to exchange the old straps with a 0.024-inch diameter cord for a heftier version with a 0.04-inch diameter cord.

Details are at: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/strapreplace.jsp

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