Nintendo Switch Sports Has Gamers Throwing Their Controllers At Their TVs Again

In the halcyon days of the mid-2000s, Nintendo gamers all over the world experienced the singular agony of accidentally chucking their Wiimote at their TV because they weren't wearing their wrist strap while playing Wii Sports. Now, a new generation is experiencing that same pain thanks to the recently released Nintendo Switch Sports, which brings all the fun of motion controls and all the seriousness of wrist straps back to modern gaming.

Nintendo Switch Sports was released last Friday, and already gamers are chucking their Joy-Cons at their televisions. The above clip was taken from streamer 63man, who goes down in history as the first gamer to break their TV on camera thanks to careless Switch Sports gameplay.

On Sunday, Redditor Equivalent_Actuary_6 reported that they too had broken their television in an intense bout with the game's Chambara mode.

Even though Nintendo did ship Switches with wrist straps for Joy-Cons, it's possible that many owners lost the small strings in the nearly five years between the Switch's release and the release of Nintendo Switch Sports, which means many more TVs are likely to be wrecked in the carnage of Switch Sports.

Perhaps such an outcome was foretold by memes. Though the Wiimote disasters were very much a product of the mid-2000s, memes about the dangers of unstrapped Wiimotes saw a surge in 2018, a potential rare case of "This Meme Is from The Future" happening in real life.