Man Planning to Sue Nintendo Over Disabled Wii Homebrew Channel

A man named Erik Estavillo downloaded the latest Wii software update which obviously blocked him from accessing the channel. Because of this, he's now wanting to sue Nintendo for blocking him from using it.

He's claiming that he used to it to unlock characters in Mario Kart Wii. But he says some characters can only be unlocked by playing Super Mario Galaxy and believes that "Nintendo is forcing customers to buy another game to unlock one character in a different game." He may be pretty pissed off, but he better have a good lawyer if he even wants to touch Nintendo.

[UltimateIdiot911]

Genius, maybe people should start suing for preorder bonus or dlc bonus. </s>

[Xander-RKoS]

I'm pretty sure you can unlock Rosalina without Super Mario Galaxy, it's just faster if you do...

"Rosalina - With a Super Mario Galaxy save, win a series of Grand Prix cups/Without Galaxy save, Attain at least 1 Star Rank for all Mirror Grand Prix Cup"

Yeah, good luck Mr. Estavillo

[Redempteur]

exactly ...he's dumb ... and he is dumber for using homebrew channel for only this ...

[Shnazzyone]

Though i'm pretty sure he has no case... remember all those agreements you agreed to when you first started up your wii? Pretty sure you said you would not hack the hardware otherwise risk voided warrenty. On the positive side... how about all those 360 users banned from live?

[Darkfocus]

well it really depends on where he lives he could actually win in some country's because there own warranty laws bypass the manufacturers.

[Neo Nugget]

Good luck with that o.O

[Nuclearwinter]

I like how this douche bag goes from suing Sony for banning him from RFOM2 to suing everyone for even more retarded claims.

[tweet75]

Both nintendo and microsoft should have sent advance notices that there sytems or live accounts will not be useable if they have homebrew or modded systems. Than at least people could dump there mods and homebrews before the update.

[ZeroX9876]

when you update to 4.2, it says to you before that if you have modified content on your console, this update could prevent or stop this content ( something like that... I don't remember exactly what it said). So this guy was fully aware of what he was doing when he updated. Anyway, if he was smart enough, he could just install it again easily.

And I'm almost a 100% sure that this guy didn't install the homebrew channel just to unlock mario kart wii characters! it's one of the worse excuse I ever heard for pirating purpose.

and anyway, what is wrong from nintendo to include a character if you buy a new game? it's just about the same since pokemon red and blue got out! you need the two cartridge to have the whole lot of characters! same thing for soul calibur on ps3 and 360. I could sue the company for not giving me yoda or darth vader at the start?!?!?!

not making any sense at all.

as for microsoft, yeah they could have said to their customers thatthe new update would ban them from live, but they didn't, so screw them! you wanted homebrew and this kinda stuff, then you can't have live. to play on live, you need an unmodified console and everyone should know that, it's your own trouble if you change something to it.

[UltimateIdiot911]

Keep in mind, this is the same guy who was banned from PSN and sued Sony twice. He's just another sue happy retard.

[YLOD Service Tech]

The Homebrew Channel is the only thing that's good on the Wii. No BS here.

[GigaGaia]

Why the hell is the moron not just reinstalling the homebrew channel? Yes, it can be done in 4.2.

[Redempteur]

it's a suing -lovers moron ...

[ChickeyCantor]

I hope he wins,
He deserves it, seriously he got some guts hahaha.

[Azimuth]

This is the same guy who sued Sony for banning him from PSN. Clearly he's an attention whore.

[blazing01]

he got ban from the ps3?? wat for??

n i just have say that it is funny that someone is trying to sue for something that is illegal in the first place. quite funny if u think about it.

then again he might win. society is mess up. let not forget about the women who won one million dollar for burning herself with coffee at mac donald

[na-no-nai]

remember this if he win, then more people gonna follow suit. i hope he deserve to lose cuz he just another one of those dumb asses who know about the consequences of using homebrew and stuff

[ChickeyCantor]

Of course,
But you have to say, it is kinda funny.

[na-no-nai]

yeah it is funny. people nowadays are just plain idiots

[Trevorthenerd]

Nintendo are offering to repair the wii if it has been bricked by the 4.2 update (even if the wii is out of Guarantee )