Enlarge / This is what can happen if you don’t secure your wrist strap before playing Nintendo Switch Sports . (credit: Reddit / Equivalent_Actuary_6 )
When you’ve covered the game industry for as long as I have, you tend to see the same types of stories appearing over and over. Still, new reports that Manufacturers Switch Sports players are breaking their TVs with accidentally thrown Joy-Cons are a bit too reminiscent of similar stories during Wii Sports ‘ heyday in the mid-’00s.
So far, these new reports of virtual sports-related accidents are limited but dramatic. Twitch-streamer 63man started things off by busting his monitor live on stream during a particularly energetic tennis swing Saturday. “HAS HE MENTIONED HE DOESNT HAVE A WRIST STRAP, ” one viewer wrote in chat shortly following the incident.
The look on his face is priceless…
The next day, Reddit user Equivalent_Actuary_6 shared an image showing “my first broken TV playing Switch Sports activities . ” In a subsequent comment , that poster said they had lost the wrist straps originally provided with the Joy-Cons but that they were “confident upon [sic] my grip” after playing through The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword strapless.
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