Official Wii lens cleaner

Pictured on the left is the new official Nintendo lens cleaner for Wii. If you've been having problems with playing your games, a dirty lens could be the cause.

This issue is particularly prominent with dual-layer discs like Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Big N previously had customers send their consoles in for cleaning, but now you can have a try yourself.

The lens cleaner is being released in Japan this month for 800 Yen ($7.80 USD at the current exchange rate). No details of an international release are available yet.

Rob Jones

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User comments

Linkman806 said:

Nice.

samthespark said:

Good, I wonder if it shows you how to take apart the Wii, or if you insert the cleaner in the the disc slot.

Jared said:

Certainly took them long enough.

Nova said:

I haven't had any problems so far so I don't care too much about the disc cleaner. I don't even know anyone that has the disk problem.

Nintendoof said:

Cool. Thanks Big N.

Mario said:

Wouldn't hurt to have one.

Mr Game & Watch said:

Probably be like the DVD lens cleaners. But Iono how those brushes will work.

Link said:

I hope it comes out for america.

zmaster said:

How can I buy this? I'm having this exact problem with my super smash game.

sonic said:

Just put in a regular dvd cleaner in it and it spins it enough to check the disk to clean the lens off. That is what we've done.

Robin said:

My problem is with my guitar hero game, In the middle of the song it says to connect Wii remote. When I click continue it starts right up again then BAM connect Wii remote. Does anyone else have this problem?