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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. Interesting... by revlayle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...but not unexpected for a 5-to-6-months-before release demo.

    It showcased what they wanted it to do - they could have cased in hardened dog shit for all I personally would have cared :)

  2. Re:uh, so? by cosmotron · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's just something to try to stir up the water...

    --
    Ryan - http://www.thecosmotron.com/
  3. Accusations? by Xxanmorph · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That makes it sound like they were doing something wrong. Who cares what case it was in if the hardware was the real deal?