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Nintendo's Wii video game system features games with simulation of tennis and boxing. To play the game, the players use motion-sensitive controller in their hand. When palying the game, some players, in making the motions neccesary or the sport, have lost of their controllers. The controllers have crashed into other objects, including television sets, and injured the players. Players who have been injured brought a class action suit against Nintendo for a defective wrist strap on the controllers, designed to keep the controllers from flying out of control. Could there be remedies for the design of the physical equipment used with the computer? (Business Law and ethics question)

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Explanation:

Nintendo can recall the defected unit and can change the designs so and replace those equipments that user won’t have to face such problems in future. The devise returning will incur more cost to them. Since whole system they should have to accept.

The loose equipment should be changed as they have manufactured with defects and injured many users which can bring claims to company. Replacing them is a step to calm those injured users. The faulty equipment can damage more users if they were not replaced in time.

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