faked Wii at E3?

Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
edited May 2006 in Science & 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

  • Mr. Anonymous
    edited May 2006
    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?
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited May 2006
    who cares, even if the wii had gamecube graphics, i would still buy it.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    GG future Star Wars Kid!
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Why would Nintendo fake its Wii? It was probably smoking weed again :(
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited May 2006
    Probably because the ATI graphics chip <b>hasn't even been finalized</b> yet.
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