faked Wii at E3?

Mathew Everett 19 May, 2006 at 3:11pm ET Article published in Tech

A rumor is flying across the web that Nintendo was in a bind coming into E3, so to impress the mass audience they modified a Nintendo GameCube with a Wii development kit.

The forum claims that the machine on show was just an empty box with a light on it. A large number of cables were seen coming out of the back which appeared to lead to a Gamecube.

The claim is that the Gamecubes were tinkered with to run a Wii development kit, with the signal routed back through a pretend Wii machine.

The rumor could be very true as Zelda and the other games that were shown are all titles that will make there way to GameCube. From what I saw and heard at E3 I think this is just a rumor. If not Nintendo did a great job pulling it off.

Source: The Inquirer

Comments

19 May 2006 ~ 5:48pm Mr. Anonymous A. who cares, it the WII.
B. yeah right, nintendo is not like that, its just a rumor.
C. why would they go to all the trouble just for that?
19 May 2006 ~ 8:56pm Jengo who cares, even if the wii had gamecube graphics, i would still buy it.
19 May 2006 ~ 9:22pm Thrax GG future Star Wars Kid!
19 May 2006 ~ 10:36pm Linc Why would Nintendo fake its Wii? It was probably smoking weed again
20 May 2006 ~ 12:15am Thrax Probably because the ATI graphics chip <b>hasn't even been finalized</b> yet.