Report: Chinese Kids Were Used to Manufacture the Wii U

I just read this article today and quickly went to Game to cancel my pre-order.

I find this unacceptable having 14 year old's made to put a console together just so I can play games.I have done the correct thing by canceling this in my own opinion. I think you guys need to have a look at this at least..

http://kotaku.com/5952422/report-chinese-kids-were-used-to-manufacture-the-wii-u

Nintendo, made by kids for kids!

Great slogan and it's true :) But seriosuly this is too bad, I hope Nintendo will clean up its act.

Well its a shame,i never thought I would have a judgment to make morally about owning a console but now I do I guess,this has also been on CNN so its not just on Kotaku its a fact. that's the unsettling nature of it. I thought I was over reacting at first but it turns my stomach to think I would now own a wii u. Now all we have to do is wait for china to start producing soylent green.

Jut because this does go on all over the world does not give it an excuse its when its collaborated to be true and it then hits you as you become aware of it.pretty sad indeed. I was so looking forwards to buying this console as well.

Forced to work overtime in order to stay in school? That's ****ed up. :|

This will definitely hinder sales. I just hope this is a mistranslation/misunderstanding and that the Wii U is manufactured in a totally different Foxconn plant without child labor.

Wish I could of had a job when I was a child. Just pay me in Console and games and I would had been very happy.

Nintendo, made by kids for kids!

Great slogan and it's true :) But seriosuly this is too bad, I hope Nintendo will clean up its act.

TommyBarban

And BOY, System Wars (or gamers in general at this point) is going to have a field day with this one.

Me and my big mouth...

It´s so sad. A kid making console he will never enjoy...but it will make happy some western boy :cry:

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Nintendo, made by kids for kids!

Great slogan and it's true :) But seriosuly this is too bad, I hope Nintendo will clean up its act.

nintendoboy16

And BOY, System Wars (or gamers in general at this point) is going to have a field day with this one.

Me and my big mouth...

Yes, great idea, I am startng a thread in SW, see what it will unleash, let the experiment begin!

Bahahahahaa you guys got suckered into that lol. Guys the knock off fake not athentic merch. in other words the clone controllers out there. are not made by nintendo. nintendo uses machine soildering on there merch. and the wii u was manufactured by the same company that makes xboxs so just wanna say if that was true u might as well stop buying xbox stuff

You need to go home and clean out your house, then. Chances are about half your stuff was made by underpaid Chinese labor, which includes children in many instances.SteveTabernacle

So are almost every other product made in China. Might as well not game then at all.

You need to go home and clean out your house, then. Chances are about half your stuff was made by underpaid Chinese labor, which includes children in many instances.SteveTabernacle

So are almost every other product made in China. Might as well not game then at all.GamerEye

These. If people are going to foolishly boycott the Wii U or 3DS made from Foxconn, then they might as well boycott other products made by them as well. Where do you think that PS3's, PS Vita's, etc. gets made? Foxconn. Where do Apple's products such as iPods, iPads, Macbooks, iPhones, etc. gets made? Foxconn.

To be fair they aren't "kids" their teenagers. This happens in pretty much every place in China aged 14 to 16 is the norm.

Edit: Also this isn't necesserally Nintendo fault. Foxconn is the one that people should be blaming but once again people are stupid and are probably going to bash Nintendo. Foxconn also produces products for Apple I read this in the Montreal Gazette. Nintendo wasn't even mentioned in their article.

To be fair they aren't "kids" their teenagers. This happens in pretty much every place in China aged 14 to 16 is the norm.

Vickman178

Also I just looked up Foxconn and they also produce both Xbox 360's and PS3's along with pretty much every Apple product and the Amazon Kindle..... Not just Nintendo's stuff here!

aren't all devices are manufactured there because it is cheap? the notorious foxxcon workers even commited suicide because the working conditions and they made some apple stuffs.

I just read this article today and quickly went to Game to cancel my pre-order.

I find this unacceptable having 14 year old's made to put a console together just so I can play games.I have done the correct thing by canceling this in my own opinion. I think you guys need to have a look at this at least..

http://kotaku.com/5952422/report-chinese-kids-were-used-to-manufacture-the-wii-u

bronze_earth

I just read this article today and quickly went to Game to cancel my pre-order.

I find this unacceptable having 14 year old's made to put a console together just so I can play games.I have done the correct thing by canceling this in my own opinion.

bronze_earth

Foxconn also makes products for Apple, Sony, and Microsoft. The practice was likely done without Nintendo's knowledge.

You do realise Foxconn manufacture products for pretty much every electronics company you could think of. If you cancelled your Wii U preorder you might as well clear your house of any electrical goods as well.shearMario

This.

In fact while i'm at it i'm just going to list every company that uses Foxconn to manufacture their goods.

Acer
Amazon
Apple
Cisco
Dell
HP
Intel
Microsoft
Motorola
Nintendo
Nokia
Samsung
Sony
Toshiba
Vizio

There thats just the "major" people, all with the possibility of having child workers involved with their products now because of this company.

I fail to see how this is any different to kids in Malaysia making shoes for Nike or kids in Africa digging coal for the electronics industry...

Adress these issues to the capitalist system and ruling world order...

I just read this article today and quickly went to Game to cancel my pre-order.

I find this unacceptable having 14 year old's made to put a console together just so I can play games.I have done the correct thing by canceling this in my own opinion. I think you guys need to have a look at this at least..

http://kotaku.com/5952422/report-chinese-kids-were-used-to-manufacture-the-wii-u

bronze_earth

Are you *(#@&*#@ kidding me?

You come on here trying to pretend you "did the right thing" by canceling your preorder and then come on here to act like you're on a high horse?

What else did you do on the way home? Throw red paint on someone wearing a leather jacket then chain yourself to a tree that's being cut down so you can block the assisted living complex from going up?

I notice that you don't say *(#$@*&( that over there they start military training at age 9.

So you have no problem with a 9 year old being taught how to kill and be killed for the greater glory but *($*&@#$ teenagers who have decidedly cushier jobs assembling devices makes you cry out in disgust?

Also how the *(@#$*( did you deliver this message here? Because the computer or cell phone you're using has parts put together in the same exact way.

Is this your last statement before you go "off the grid" living in the woods taking only the bare minimum to survive?

If that's not the case then you're a hypocrite that's using this story as a way to flaunt how much better you think you are then everyone else.

That's great if it makes you sleep better at night but the rest of us aren't buying it.

Hahahaha well good thing im a heartless bastard. I cant stand kids they piss me off so freaking much. This doesnt change anything. Nintendo could have murdered millions of dolphins or animals in general. Nintendo still gets my money.

After reading it it says they were 14-16....thats TEENS not kids. Teens get jobs at that age so I fail to see what the issue is lol.

Plus those lucky teens got to see what exactly went into the system. So ask them what that stats on the Wii U is.

someone may as well lock this topic.Wii U does not need this we already have enough sources of negativity

lock this thread...TC is a lying fanboy...he didnt cancel jack.i'm sure of it...just rtying to make a 30 page thread....i'm sure he never even preordered the wiiU...and if he did then no way he is cancelling because he won't get one until 2013

Did anybody even read enough of the story to get to this part?

It's also unclear whether or not these students were actually making the Wii U. According to these Chinese sources, they were. Kotaku followed up with Nintendo, but the company did not respond before this story was published. If the company does respond, this story will be updated.The Inept Headline Writer

So he's not even sure that it was the WiiU being made there but runs the story anyway AND puts it in a matter-of-fact headline. Great.

And these "kids" are no younger than 14. I was working when I was 15.... Not 12-hour days with tons of overtime (though at the time I wished I could have sometimes, and I chose to work 12-hour days whenever I could), but I think the phrase "Chinese kids" is supposed to evoke images of six-year olds with bloody hands and tears in their eyes working by moonlight to put the little covers on the LED lights on the gamepad.

This is just a terrible article. It's one thing to point out that a Chinese company is overworking its interns and that the schools are putting too stringent of a policy in effect, but to put all of this extra sensationalist junk in the story just serves to dillute the real story.

Ugh.

And if anyone thinks that stories like this will curb sales of the WiiU.... People have been trying the same tactic with Apple for years and it hasn't had any effect whatsoever on sales, though it probably has had at least a small impact on company policies in both the West and China.

Those lucky kids!

Is this article from Kotaku? It figures knowing its reputation for sensationism.

Is this article from Kotaku? It figures knowing its reputation for sensationism.

thom_maytees

Don't forget about their reputation for not doing any research or fact checking at all.

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Is this article from Kotaku? It figures knowing its reputation for sensationism.

Pffrbt

Don't forget about their reputation for not doing any research or fact checking at all.

^Yeah definitely a case of sensationalism, but it has become such a common thing in media these days, its not even worth noting anymore. Sepewrath

I knew that Nintendo really hated small children! If they really cared they would stop pushing their rainbow branded and fun styled games and sell what children really want and need for a stable and socially acceptable upbringing as a spoiled brat, like GTA : slap the b#$%h edition and DOA: show em the fun bags DLC. And lets assume that Nintendo is using child labor to make all their product, as this story may or may not be all that truthful. If so, does boycotting the Wii U solve anything? Would these kids all of a sudden have to not work and be all happy and stuff? Not likely is it. One would have to completely change China from the bottom up and the top down to fix this, and it ain't gonna happen son, not in ya life time. ekalbtwin

Nope, if people refuse to buy the system because of this, it makes all the "forced" work they did on this for nothing. If I was forced to make something like this I would at least want to know it was been used, and that my time spent making it wasn't wasted.

[QUOTE="Sepewrath"]^Yeah definitely a case of sensationalism, but it has become such a common thing in media these days, its not even worth noting anymore. JordanElek

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