Nintendo said today it would exchange 3.2 million straps attached to the controllers of its Wii game console with stronger ones after some reports of broken straps.
It also said it would recall about 200,000 AC adaptors for its hot-selling DS and DS Lite handheld game machines in Japan because they may overheat and cause burns on rare occasions.
No injury is reported so far, the Kyoto-based game maker said today.
The adaptor recall is expected to cost up to 200 million yen (€1.3 million), and it is yet to be decided how the cost will be divided between Nintendo and the supplier of the AC adaptor, it was reported.
The Wii, which competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360, features a motion-sensitive controller that allows players to control the game by swinging the device like a tennis racket or wielding it like a sword.
The exchange is expected to cost Nintendo several hundred million yen, the company said. Both the AC adaptor recall and the strap exchange will probably have little effect on its earnings.