All is not what it seems at the unveiling of Wii

[Steven W]

Nintendo confirm that the Wii at E3 wasn't the Wii that we'll see on launch.

Check out the Headline for more info.

[DavidM]

In otherwords - some of the silicon was unfinished, so they encased it in a bigger box?

This does happen.. I remember a product demonstration I saw many years ago which had a massive PCB of 120 logic chips, shrunk on a production model to one single ASIC ... so it's not so unlikely that something similar happened here.

[beanbandit]

And? MS did the same at last years E3 (Apple G5's) Sony did the same this year running PS3 demo's on dev kits. Its nothing new and will happen when showing unreleased hardware.

[DavidM]

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[UltraMagnus]

it was faked...... from what i hear it was either running on a (very) upgrade gamecube, or a &#163;3000 PC....