Nintendo Confirms Wii on GC Housing at E3

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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Confused

[Palshife]

Why do we need to ask a Nintendo executive what a GameCube looks like?

Re:And this changes.... the controller?

[WillAffleckUW]

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

No, it was a belgian chocolate mockup wrapped in gold foil, and the whole audience was responding to hypnotic suggestion.

Well, that does it for me, I'll choose the incredibly stable never-used-before Blu-ray PS3 instead of the Wii.

It's not like I care about the games more than the boxes anyways.

Re:I've been wondering...

[L-Train8]

ummm... protect Ranier Wolfcastle from the river of acid, I think.

http://gogglesdonothing.ytmnd.com/

Re:Oh well, I guess that changes everything

[MilenCent]

While I agree with the parent's sentiment and those in other posts about this story being irrelevant, is there any evidence that Sony was behind this? If not, then the Sony bashing has officially gotten out of hand, and the parent has no business being modded 'Insightful'.

The bashing, of all types, has been out of hand 'round these parts for some time. (Just ask the Overrated Gremlins that follow me around Slashdot....)

Too many conversations about video games on Slashdot too often (and Digg, and many gaming blogs too), once you reduce to lowest common denominator, take the form You're a FANBOY!/No YOU'RE a fanboy!

It's almost as bad as talking politics....

Yea

[MeridianBlade]

I assumed this! http://www.wii-volution.com