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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. Re:FP by atroc · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wii, lettuce have some cake and celebrate my new Wii Wii.

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    Friendly fire isn't!
  2. Re:Interesting... by Generic+Guy · · Score: 0, Troll
    they could have cased in hardened dog shit for all I personally would have cared

    No, that was already on display over at the Sony booth...

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  3. Come on Nintendo. by IAMTHEMEDIA · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've thought it over, and Nintendo, Wii are through. it's time we started seeing other people.

    Play on playa.

    My prediction for the next gen console war:
    1.X360
    2.PS3
    3.Wii

    haha that rhymes, I should be a rapper, you would like that

  4. Accusation by tepples · · Score: 0, Troll

    Accusation: Wii technology is modified GameCube hardware.

    Fact: True.