Inq: Nintendo faked Wii demonstration - claim

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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31829

The recent demonstration by Nintendo of its new Wii machine at the E3 show was all fabricated, according to the Nintendo insider forum.

Nintendo apparently was in a bit of a bind because it needed to make a good impression at E3, but it didn’t have a product. The ATI graphics card which will be a feature of the Wii is still in development.

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.
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Uhm, has this been posted yet and am I going to get stoned/flamed for this? :-|
 
No-one said they were demonstraing final Wii hardware AFAIK. We known the GPU supposedly isn't finished. The point of the demos were to showcase the Wiimote, which were real demos played by real people. Hence no faking. The only thing of concern is that the games seen were running on less capable hardware than the Wii will have!
 
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So you mean to tell me that all the playable games at E3 were running off gamecubes too? Mario Galaxy is far beyond anything the GameCube could do. This doesn't sound right to me...
 
I believe Penny's Arcade may a similar comment that the shown software was running on GCN hardware.
 
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Did you look at the pictures supposedly showing GCNs running the demos? They look pretty fake to me. They're photoshopped in my opinion.
 
I think the important thing is that people were able to hold the remote and play all the games in the Nintendo booth. IMO, whether or not they embellished the press conference for the sake of theatrics is really unimportant as they were able to back it all up later in the week.

As Shifty pointed out, it can only mean good news for Nintendo as the Wii hardware should have a bit more 'kick' than the GC anyway.
 
The Inq claims a lot of stuff , 99,99999999% of those claims are false and I wouldn’t be surprised if this claim is also.
 
As long as the Wiimote worked as intended for gameplay who cares what hardware it runs off of? Faking it would be Nintendo acting to play the games with the Wiimote where the gestures do not translate into gameplay.

I thought people were able to use the Wiimote as intended? :?:
 
Never trust the Inq.
But I'd like it to be true, that would let the Wii be much closer to what I want and much farther from the NGC ^^
 
I am downloading the Nintendo press conference from IGN (supposedly the source) right now and I am going to look for those GCNs running the presentation.
 
In this case the Inq is right, Ubisoft said (on GameSpot previewn, probably this as been the problem they talked on the conf.) that they are presenting the game on GC SDKs and once that everything is on par or bellow with their game it is easy to conclude that everything is runing on GC HW. Still I think they had been updated, according to IGN.


So you mean to tell me that all the playable games at E3 were running off gamecubes too? Mario Galaxy is far beyond anything the GameCube could do. This doesn't sound right to me...
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None even looked as good as RE4, SW:RS or SC3 for GC, so it is no suprise at all IMO.

Like Shifty said this as been just to made a good impression of the controler without anything else to help it, overall it seems they did it, now if they show also nicely upgraded gfx, online etc... the hype will much bigger than it would if already showed it and with a big focus on the controller. A really smart move I must say.
 
O.K. I eat my words: There's indeed a box with two gamecubes in the video. Wether or not they're used for the presentation, I cannot tell.
 
This is pretty interesting. The texture work on SMG and the updates to Zelda look pretty incredible. And that was all running on stock GC hardware??? Surely there was a ram increase or something right? Either way, software programmed extensively on Final Wii hardware will undoubtedly impress.
 
Hardknock said:
This is pretty interesting. The texture work on SMG and the updates to Zelda look pretty incredible. And that was all running on stock GC hardware???
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hupfinsgack said he saw two GCs == SLI'd! ;)
 
Hardknock said:
This is pretty interesting. The texture work on SMG and the updates to Zelda look pretty incredible. And that was all running on stock GC hardware??? Surely there was a ram increase or something right? Either way, software programmed extensively on Final Wii hardware will undoubtedly impress.
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Excite Truck also looks brilliant (for a GC game) if you look at the new video's. That said as PC mentioned GC does have some amazing looking games to start with. Still I seem to remember that Retro said that the early MP3 demo shown at TGS was "not running on Revolution, but instead a modified GC with extra ram".

So your probably right, the GC's being used will likely at least have some extra ram if not also overclocked slightly.
 
Still I seem to remember that Retro said that the early MP3 demo shown at TGS was "not running on Revolution, but instead a modified GC with extra ram".
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Wasn't there a post recently about the main thing holding back the GC being lack of system RAM ? If this were the case, then a modified GC (perhaps with higher clocked chips) and extra 1T-RAM could do wonders...
 
Faked? What the hell are they talking about? The controller is the real deal and they presented just that. I have no reason to believe they didnt have GCs behind the wall but that doesnt change anything nor do I believe Nintendo faked anything.

It should have worried us if that ment we wont get that experience on Wii. But we will. Not only that but the fact that a GC was behind that wall means that we will get an even better product when its finalized.

Inq. should stop dramatizing events just to pull heads. We are already bored with the other media efforts. We dont need them in videogames too.
 
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