Most products and devices nowadays come with an excessive amount of safety warnings, labels and instructions because people often do silly things. In 2006, Nintendo joined this movement to prevent people from throwing Wii Remotes straight into their televisions. The Switch also runs a similar warning about attaching the wrist straps when the Joy-Cons are being used.
With this in mind, it should come as no surprise Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! has a similar message for the Poké Ball Plus when you boot up the game. As can be seen in the tweet below, the game encourages you to attach the strap before you start playing:
Given how you perform motion gestures in the direction of your television with this device - it's probably a good decision by Nintendo to add warnings to the boot-up screen in order to prevent any television-related disasters.
If you want to find out more about the accessory, check out our hands-on from earlier this year.
Will you be picking up the Poké Ball Plus alongside the release of the new games? Do you wear a wrist-strap when using controllers like this? Tell us in the comments below.
[source gonintendo.com]
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First thing I plan to do with my new Poke Ball controller is see if I can swallow it.
I see that Nintendolife only reports on the most breaking news in videogames.
It's all about liability and legality. If there is a warning like this and someone manages to kill themself with it anyway, Nintendo's lawyers can say "look, we made the warning as clear is reasonably possible"
It's the same reason medicine commercials in the US have made an art out of listing off all 17,392 ways their new anti-fungal cream can cause you to die horribly. When you do in-fact, die horribly, the lawyers can point out to your widow that you were indeed warned.
It's a MUST to give some Warning before playing, because who want to lose their Pokeballs & damage something by accidentally ?
@JHDK But which Pokemon will you store inside the Pokeball for maximum flavor?
@Deku-Scrub given we’re limited to gen 1, I think that rules out all food based Pokémon. Personally, I’d go for Farfetch’d, it’s implied to at least be tasty.
@Deku-Scrub If it's the first thing out of the box it'll probably be Mew flavored. $50 worth of cotton candy.
@ShadJV Plus it comes with its own side veg and seasoning.
Oh my Guthix, that start screen is adorable. I can't wait to play these games.
Honestly did not expect to make it this far down in the comments, and see no innuendo.
@Heavyarms55 @JHDK Literally can't wait to hear about how people try to swallow the Poké Ball Plus, and how it was used in a totally genius way to commit a murder.
"Miracle recovery as patient who swallowed Pokéball Plus coughs it back up with the words "...I Choose You... Pikachu...""
"The stained past of Nintendo's Poké Ball Plus: Murder by Association."
Another reason not to buy
@ShadJV Farfetched also comes with vegetables for a balanced meal. You could have Ditto for pudding. I'm pretty sure that thing is soya-based.
"Don't let go." In other words, don't actually throw it.
@Deku-Scrub that is a good question, pikachu maybe? In the sun and moon anime they tried to Cook with Pikachus Thunderbolt as an ingredient...
Slow news day.
@JHDK: Really? I thought jamming it up my right nostril would be a better idea.... Y'know, to catch all the gold in there.
@ShadJV no no it must be magikarp!
@MisterDevil but magikarp is all scales and bones, meowth tried eating it!
@riChchestM idk ditto always looked like clay to me, and I don’t wanna eat clay... though perhaps since it seems to alter its molecular structure when transforming, that would alter its taste, but good luck getting one to transform into a top sirloin steak for consumption haha
@NewAdvent sadly, they have to for liability. Idk about other countries but here in the US, people win lawsuits all the time when they do stupid stuff and get hurt or damage property. Put it in the manual and they’ll just argue they didn’t read the manual (which is prob true, the Switch doesn’t have much in the way of manuals, it’s just a digital one that has nothing important usually). And then they’ll win the lawsuit because Nintendo didn’t put the warning someplace where they saw it. It’s sad but that’s the world we’ve created, this one little warning that’s annoying to us could save Nintendo millions of dollars in possible lawsuits.
@NewAdvent these goldfish don't have time to read stuff before applying. I miss the wiihaveaproblem website lol who knew one console could be a breaker of tvs.
@ShadJV meowth couldn't bite through the skin XD it must be yummy if the skin is hard and protects its flesh
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