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quedex 19 May 2006 15:43:40 3,135 posts
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Just to stop Nintendo from feeling left out from the "Everybody Lies at E3" outrage that's going on at the moment, The Wanquirer are claiming that all the Wii demos at E3 were really running off GameCubes instead. Snigger.

pjmaybe 19 May 2006 15:44:59 70,666 posts
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Screw those guys, I'm gonna make my own games expo...with blackjack and hookers...etc etc...yawn

Peej

Teeth 19 May 2006 15:50:58 7,987 posts
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quedex wrote:
Just to stop Nintendo from feeling left out from the "Everybody Lies at E3" outrage that's going on at the moment, The Wanquirer are claiming that all the Wii demos at E3 were really running off GameCubes instead. Snigger.

Do keep up at the back!

Deleted user 19 May 2006 15:51:23

Delete Quedex. While there's still time...

The_Aardvark 19 May 2006 15:55:13 3,063 posts
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the sprout wrote:

old

AWTFAY?

York 19 May 2006 15:57:31 8,667 posts
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I thought the claims now were that Nintendo was using Wii hardware, under the guise of GC hardware!

Huntcjna 19 May 2006 15:57:40 13,890 posts
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pjmaybe wrote:
Screw those guys, I'm gonna make my own games expo...with blackjack and hookers...etc etc...yawn

Peej

Futurama FTUW!

York 19 May 2006 15:58:56 8,667 posts
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Futurama may not be the most quoted show on the EG forums, but it certainly is the most "I know where that quote is from!"ed shows.

ProfessorLesser 19 May 2006 15:59:35 19,693 posts
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York wrote:
I thought the claims now were that Nintendo was using Wii hardware, under the guise of GC hardware!

That is the only way in which it is any way a bad lie, yeah...

Edited by ProfessorLesser at 15:59:40 19-05-2006

The_Aardvark 19 May 2006 16:01:12 3,063 posts
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the sprout wrote:

The_Aardvark wrote:
AWTFAY?

2543, and you are?

Not universally despised as a pointless little troll. Why?

Deleted user 19 May 2006 16:01:31

So...if the demos really were running off GC hardware, then the chances are the games will get better looking before release? Hm. A reason to complain, to be sure.

The_Aardvark 19 May 2006 16:04:35 3,063 posts
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nekotcha wrote:
So...if the demos really were running off GC hardware, then the chances are the games will get better looking before release? Hm. A reason to complain, to be sure.

Personally, I think this rumour's been started by a bunch of ninty fanboys who are having trouble with a certain egyptian river.

Xerx3s 19 May 2006 16:06:15 23,970 posts
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the sprout wrote:

quedex wrote:
Just to stop Nintendo from feeling left out from the "Everybody Lies at E3" outrage that's going on at the moment, The Wanquirer are claiming that all the Wii demos at E3 were really running off GameCubes instead. Snigger.

old

Olding is a right only ppl below the 10k have. Because they are old grumpy gits.

Deleted user 19 May 2006 16:11:34

The_Aardvark wrote:

nekotcha wrote:
So...if the demos really were running off GC hardware, then the chances are the games will get better looking before release? Hm. A reason to complain, to be sure.

Personally, I think this rumour's been started by a bunch of ninty fanboys who are having trouble with a certain egyptian river.

Yeah, I heard this rumour too. My point was more just in relation to the very first post in the thread, i.e.: if the demos were running on Cube hardware, how could that possibly be a bad thing?

But tbh I'm going to wait till I get me a chance to talk to someone who's actually working with the hardware to see what state the devkits are in at the moment. (No offence, it's just hard to see through the mist of fanboy rumouring on here sometimes!)

quedex 19 May 2006 16:47:53 3,135 posts
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Teeth wrote:

quedex wrote:
Just to stop Nintendo from feeling left out from the "Everybody Lies at E3" outrage that's going on at the moment, The Wanquirer are claiming that all the Wii demos at E3 were really running off GameCubes instead. Snigger.

Do keep up at the back!

My post was more of a comment on that site, than it was the actual news they were reporting on. I'm not bothered what hardware Nintendo were using to show the demos - it could have all been powered by a Psion Organiser for the difference it makes. I just like the way that site repeatedly report on something that they don't have a clue on.

So, seeing as their article only appeared 15 minutes before my post, and no one else linked to it, I'm officially un-olding myself :-P

/sneaks off before anyone notices... ;-)

Teeth 19 May 2006 16:48:49 7,987 posts
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It's old, accept your fate peon!

/casts quedex into the dungeons

Deleted user 19 May 2006 16:49:28

/Re-olds Quedex

malarky 19 May 2006 18:19:56 70 posts
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Load of sh*t. I did the setup for the [censored] session at the Activision pre-e3 conference, and neversoft/toys for bob were also there - they were running Tony Hawk's Downhill jam on what was definately a wii devkit, not a cube. And haven't nintendo used the same AV cables since snes?

Doesn't mean that some demos weren't run on a cube hybrid kit, but final or near final kits are definately out there.

mderbyshire 19 May 2006 18:31:54 81 posts
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You know, whilst i'm sure a lot of us understand that it's "not just about the graphics", some people are just too dumb and/or ignorant to realise that, and will never understand, regardless of the number of times Nintendo (or indeed, anyone else) says it.

Nintendo must realise this also, and for that reason I find it highly unlikely they will show off games which would be signicifantly inferior (as far as the graphics are concerned) to the final versions, without saying anything about it, knowing full well that it may well put some people off buying the console.

What people are speculating about is indeed possible, but I find it highly unlikely. I think if Nintendo were going to pass off a GameCube as a Nintendo Wii (due to the Wii not yet being playable, or for whatever reason), they'd have opted to just not show anything.

For that reason, it's my bet that the games were indeed running off a Wii (or a Wii dev kit, perhaps even in a GameCube shell) and not a GameCube.

Carrybagma 19 May 2006 19:50:03 3,904 posts
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But.. a Wii dev kit *was* the Gamecube kit in an earlier life!

I think the point of the article was that they attempted to make it look like it was running off a 'complete' Wii machine, rather than a 'black box'.

Hardly matter though - ask anyone who watched the conference what they were looking at: the games, or a little box somewhere on the stage.

It's a non-story - unless Nintendo managed to fake 27 playable game demoes, and the wands don't work, and it's just little hidden men with wired controllers copying what you do and Nintendo are all cheats. THAT would be a good story.

Khab 19 May 2006 20:27:40 6,583 posts
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A PROPER olding should include the link to the previous post. Or it shall be mocked and ridiculed.

Deleted user 19 May 2006 20:31:31

I think that Wii games will inevitably look better than GC games, and the dev kit versions weren't final, so the first wave of games will not exploit the system's full power. Nonetheless, I think that this thread does harm to those who are finding it hard to let go of the 'amazing' graphics they secretly hoped for... Poor bastards!!! My heart goes out to you.

quedex 19 May 2006 21:10:44 3,135 posts
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The WiiC will have amazing graphics.
It might not compare well with a PS3 or 360 when plugged into your all-singing, all-dancing 2390q Ultra Hi Def tv, but for us mere mortals with our standard def TVs and projectors it'll look most shiny.

And like I said earlier, this thread was trying to take the piss out of the Inqtosser, not Nintendo... ;-)

Pac-man-ate-my-wife 20 May 2006 00:37:49 7,087 posts
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That's that settled then

DaveT 20 May 2006 00:52:00 309 posts
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Post deleted at 12:14:11 23-03-2007

Deleted user 20 May 2006 00:53:46

Pac-man ate my wife wrote: [link=http://gonintendo.com/?p=2660" target="">That's that settled then

Jesus man, you're going around these threads spreading enlightenment like some sort of magical wind of, eh, enlightenment. /Bookmarks

Deleted user 20 May 2006 00:56:36

frod wrote: If IGN are right, the Wii is just a Gamecube with a little more memory and clockspeed. Probably a better thermal design than the eventual Wii case, if they're working with early hot running chips.

Yup, I'd say that's about right, except for the fact that it'll be WiFi capable and have new hardware in the form of the wiimote + nunchuk, and be capable of playing DVDs (with a dongle), and that it'll have a Virtual console built into it.

Carrybagma 20 May 2006 04:45:04 3,904 posts
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Yeah - the virtual console was the big thing missing from E3, right? Now we know why.

It's a worry though - if they haven't got the Gamecube, N64 etc condensed down onto a hardware emulator already, when do they plan on doing so?

Deleted user 20 May 2006 04:55:00

Carrybagma wrote:
Yeah - the virtual console was the big thing missing from E3, right? Now we know why. It's a worry though - if they haven't got the Gamecube, N64 etc condensed down onto a hardware emulator already, when do they plan on doing so?

My guess is that they're still tinkering with the classic controller, and like they say themselves (assuming that they are to be believed), the show was supposed to be about the wii-mote.

I think that they'll save this for attention-grabbing news later on. Patience grasshopper.

Pac-man-ate-my-wife 20 May 2006 10:57:04 7,087 posts
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Telepathic.Geometry wrote:

Pac-man ate my wife wrote: [link=http://gonintendo.com/?p=2660" target="">That's that settled then
Jesus man, you're going around these threads spreading enlightenment like some sort of magical wind of, eh, enlightenment. /Bookmarks