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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. Does it matter? by FadedTimes · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It shouldn't matter if it was in an Atari 2600 case, the hardware inside was closer to Wii spec, and not gamecube spec.

  2. Who cares? by ebob9 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Did the Wiimote work? That's 90% of the point and feature of the Wii's system right there. So, big frickin deal.

    It's not like the goal of the machines was better graphics and processor power, and they had them running on PCs.

  3. Wii by Holmesey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What was the point in that? Why would you show something off thats not even the finial? And GC - Wii is quite different!

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