I heard this warning, and I think that if it is harmful to children's eyes, then they should just get a DS Lite or something like that.
Nintendo 3DS Warning
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GW: The only reason the Wii remotes were crashing through TV's was because people were using way to much force. You don't need to be forceful with the remote. It moves without having to use force. Anyway back on topic. Nintendo is careful about what they do and yes this is a good thing to do since a #DS is too close to the eye. Look at it this way: If you sit too close to a TV you can have major eye damage over time. It takes a long time but it can happen. This is the same senario with the #DS. The #DS can cause serious eye damage especially on very young developing eyes. So yes this is why they put out a warning XD.
^I digress, but my argument was that it wasn't that people were throwing the remotes in the first places, it was what they did after: sue. As far as I remember all those court cases between Nintendo and those affected were dropped for being ridiculous I'd assume , so while it may not have cost Nintendo their money, it gave them a heck of a lot of bad publicity, something I'm sure they've learned from in the meantime (if the strap redesign was necessary, I don't know...). This time around with the issue of 3D though, it's not the technology that's getting damaged, it's the players themselves, so to speak, and someone suing over eye damage is considerably more serious, which means ultimately for Nintendo, it's potentially more costly... Covering their behinds now means less or none of those kinds of scenarios in the future, because now they can say "I told you so," point at the warning they just issued, and walk back to Kyoto/Redmond/etc. unscathed.
I hate to say it, bu this goes under the "Duh" category. Obviously people don't know much about development in young children. For those children that are afraid of the dark, what do parents do? Buy night lights. The use of night lights are so harmful for a child's eyes that it increases the odds of them needing glasses drastically. And because this is a "Duh" situation, thats why nintendo is putting the warning out there. They're protecting THEMSELVES from frivolous lawsuits, not looking out for the children.