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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. Misleading subject: Disagrees with summary, even. by Dryth · · Score: 4, Informative

    They weren't running ON Gamecube hardware. They were running IN Gamecube shells. The summary is more true to fact than the subject.

    From TFA:

    Nintendo confirmed that they did indeed use GameCube housing, but that the "guts" or internal architecture was certainly from the Wii. "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," the company explained.

  2. Re:GBA SP, DS lite, WiiCube? by Zangief · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mmmm, Nintendo doesnt redesign their home consoles a lot. The NES saw a redesign years after the SNES was out. I don't think there was a significant SNES or N64 or Gamecube redesign, other than changing a bit the internal hardware for cheaper production. The external design was always the same.

    Yeah, they redo their handhelds all the time. They have done so since the Gameboy.

  3. Re:GBA SP, DS lite, WiiCube? by Dorceon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually there was an SNES redesign. There's a pic on the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNES_2

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  4. Re:I wish the Wii would come in a cube. by MilenCent · · Score: 4, Informative

    I seem to remember making this kind of comment before, but....

    The Gamecube is sixth-generation. The prior generations are:

    1. Up to and including Atari 2600.
    2. Intellivision, Colecovision, Atari 5200.
    3. NES, Sega Master System, Atari 7800.
    4. Genesis, SNES, Turbografx 16.
    5. Saturn, Playstation, N64
    6. Dreamcast, PS2, X-box, Gamecube.
    -- and next --
    7. X-Box 360, Playstation 3, Wii.

  5. Correction: by kyle+(in+stereo) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Accusation: Nintendo is still running games off of modified Gamecube hardware.

    Fact: While this was true for most of last year, and some of this year, E3 2006 saw Wii technology housed in black Gamecube casing.

    :-)

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  6. Sony was using actual PS3 hardware... by YesIAmAScript · · Score: 5, Informative

    They were the devices in racks between the monitors.

    They're not PCs in there. They're not "representative hardware". They're PS3s, devkits.

    No, they weren't in final plastics yet either.

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  7. Re:Oh well, I guess that changes everything by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually it seems to increase their third party support because it makes the games cheaper to develop and thus reduces the risk of not making your money back. Making a high end game with support for a new kind of controller on an unproven platform is a huge risk. Making a medium spec game for that console is a lot less money put on the risk. SNK already announced that they are going to make the Wii their primary platform next gen.

    The new controller can work as a selling point just as well as graphics do but it's a lot cheaper to use.

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