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Nintendo Confirms Wii on GC Housing at E3

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the still-some-wiggle-room dept.

kukyfrope writes "Nintendo's PR Manager, Matt Atwood, has confirmed accusations that Wii demo stations at E3 were not running inside the Wii case and instead were running inside Gamecube housing using Wii-spec hardware. 'The Wii hardware we exhibited at E3 2006 was made specifically for the E3 show and is not the final mass-production version. Some of this hardware was cased in Nintendo GameCube housing.'" Update: 05/19 21:08 GMT by Z : Changed 'hardware' to 'housing' in title.

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  1. And this changes.... by lokiman · · Score: 5, Funny

    And was the controller just a mars bar wrapped in tin foil?

  2. GBA SP, DS lite, WiiCube? by tepples · · Score: 4, Funny

    If the GBA SP and DS lite are any indication, I predict that 18 months after Wii hits the market, Nintendo will announce the WiiCube, a Wii console shaped like a GameCube with a larger disc well and more built-in memory for more Virtual Console products.

  3. Re:Interesting... by Salgak1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Alas, no hardened dog poop was available: Microsoft bought it all up for Vista. . . .

    (running for cover, grinning like hell)

  4. Cheated, Cheated, Cheated I say! by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, to think that they used plastic housing cases that weren't exactly the same as the final production models, even if all the important metal and fiber bits inside were!

    I am just appalled.

    Oh, wait. No, it's Friday.

    Never mind: I forgot I actually have a life.

    As you were.

    They can put them in brown paper sacks for all I care.

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  5. Re:This makes me wonder... by WillAffleckUW · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can a GC be overclocked and still work?

    Well, maybe it can, but I want to know if we can make a Beowulf cluster out of Wii hardware.

    Then we can have a Wii Beowulf cluster.

    Thanks, I'll be here all week.

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  6. Microsoft did a similar thing last year by Hannah+E.+Davis · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure why this is a big deal, or even a surprise -- at last year's E3, the 360 was emulated on heavily modded PowerPCs. When I saw a stack of them at EA, I couldn't help but giggle at the huge Apple logos emblazoned on the side and the small, unassuming "Property of Microsoft" labels affixed to the top of each machine.

  7. In other online news... by Guppy06 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sony BluRay laptop demo was using a DVD-ROM!

    Karl Rove has been indicted!

    Everything you read on the intrawebs is the absolute truth!