Wii Connect24 Overheating issues?

[QUOTE="Duckman5"][QUOTE="RyanWare"]

Some people in here need to get a clue. "Wiis don't overheat, only defective Wiis overheat." What the hell is that supposed to mean? Every single Wii gets hot to the touch when left in standby mode with an active wireless internet connection. If left in this state for too long (weeks, months possibly) it is very likely to become damaged internally. Perhaps some Wiis are more susceptible to overheating than others, but this is merely up to manufacturing discrepencies. The fact is that the Wii has a major design flaw that Nintendo needs to remedy.

My Wii is going back to Nintendo thanks to this very problem.

RyanWare

Hot/warm is subjective, and I never once thought my Wii was too hot when left in standby. In contrast my modem gets so hot that it can literally burn you, and yet it has never died in the 5+ years I've had it running without rest. Now that is a product made to run hot, not the Wii. Besides, my Wii was fine for months. It only overheated after it had been left in standby mode for ~6 weeks straight without being turned on. If you play the Wii every week or so, then it probably won't ever overheat. But if more people left their Wiis in standby for months at a time, like I did, then I think we'd be seeing many, many more "defective" Wiis popping up.

[QUOTE="RyanWare"][QUOTE="Duckman5"][QUOTE="RyanWare"]

Some people in here need to get a clue. "Wiis don't overheat, only defective Wiis overheat." What the hell is that supposed to mean? Every single Wii gets hot to the touch when left in standby mode with an active wireless internet connection. If left in this state for too long (weeks, months possibly) it is very likely to become damaged internally. Perhaps some Wiis are more susceptible to overheating than others, but this is merely up to manufacturing discrepencies. The fact is that the Wii has a major design flaw that Nintendo needs to remedy.

My Wii is going back to Nintendo thanks to this very problem.

Duckman5

Hot/warm is subjective, and I never once thought my Wii was too hot when left in standby. In contrast my modem gets so hot that it can literally burn you, and yet it has never died in the 5+ years I've had it running without rest. Now that is a product made to run hot, not the Wii. Besides, my Wii was fine for months. It only overheated after it had been left in standby mode for ~6 weeks straight without being turned on. If you play the Wii every week or so, then it probably won't ever overheat. But if more people left their Wiis in standby for months at a time, like I did, then I think we'd be seeing many, many more "defective" Wiis popping up.

But luckily casuals won't be using WC24, so it's a non-issue for them. Regardless, only time will tell how pronounced this problem really is. So far, though, the Wii is looking like Nintendo's least reliable console ever, which is unfortunate.

[QUOTE="Jaysonguy"]

The Wii doesn't overheat. If it DOES overheat it means you have a defective Wii.

I have had mine since launch (American) and no problems whatsoever.

If yours has a heat problem don't shut off it's connection, don't waste money on a fan, just go get it replaced from Nintendo.

Virus214

Uhh. no... Have you felt how hot it gets ? its never been so hot before.. even after hours and hours of gameplay.. its friggen hot.. Nintendo needs to do something.

Not in the least, it is a NON issue

If your Wii is hot to the touch, not warm which many people are having trouble with deciding, if it is actually hot then you have a defective Wii and need to return it.

People don't understand that the Wii doesn't have any "padding" so that means that you feel the other side of the circuit board. If many of your other devices had this little outside "padding" then you'd be buying fans for every electric device in your house.

[QUOTE="RyanWare"]

Some people in here need to get a clue. "Wiis don't overheat, only defective Wiis overheat." What the hell is that supposed to mean? Every single Wii gets hot to the touch when left in standby mode with an active wireless internet connection. If left in this state for too long (weeks, months possibly) it is very likely to become damaged internally. Perhaps some Wiis are more susceptible to overheating than others, but this is merely up to manufacturing discrepencies. The fact is that the Wii has a major design flaw that Nintendo needs to remedy.

My Wii is going back to Nintendo thanks to this very problem.

Duckman5

I don;t think GPU and graphic cards or anyother computer chip are built to withstand high temperature. If they are then nintendo wouldn't even install a fan in the Wii system in the first place. I have a nintendo Wii myself and I brought it this June. I got my Wii to go online a few days ago. I left it at standby mode for one night to test out this theory of "WiiConnect24 overheat system". As it turned out, the system got very warm. Not steaming hot but warmer then normal. It was even warmer than after I played Resdient Evil 4 for 10 hours (With breaks in between and I didn't turn off the system). Now, I turned off WiiConnect24 after everytime I use my Wii. Some people can call my system a defect if they want but I don't think my system was defective consider how recently I bought my system.