E3 Wii’s Were Fake Shocker

According to the Inq and Nintendo Insider forum, the E3 showing of the Wii was supposibly just a gamecube with a Wii controller bolted on and all the “Wii” games were running on Gamecube hardware, whilst the demo boxes were just empty shells with blue lights. The bottom line is: does this really matter? They created a massive interest and they clearly stated it wasn’t about the system, it was about the controller and the interaction between user and game. The Wii is essentially a gamecube on steroids anyway, so why is this a big deal? We all know Zelda is going to arrive on both Wii and GC, and the game demos they had weren’t graphically ground breaking but that doesn’t meant they weren’t obviously fun.

- Richard