Nintendo moves to fix Smash Bros. problems

Nintendo US has offered to repair all Wii consoles struggling to play the highly-anticipated first-party title Super Smash Bros Brawl.

Some users have experienced disc read errors with the game, which Nintendo blames on the lens inside the Wii console.

"Super Smash Bros Brawl utilises a double-layer disc which has a large memory capacity. A very small percentage of Wii consoles may have trouble consistently reading data off this large capacity disc if there is some contamination on the lens of the drive," said the company.

North American consumers can send their consoles to Nintendo for repair free of charge, as the problem lies with the hardware, not the software.

The game was released at the weekend in the US. On release in Japan, the game went on to sell over one million units in just 11 days.