Wii: New secret?

~J~ · 31 Oct 2006 at 08:35

fieldy said:
I think it will be that there will be millions more units at luanch.

One million more Wii's!!

fieldy · 31 Oct 2006 at 08:37

~J~ said:
One million more Wii's!!

well played lol

NokkonWud · 31 Oct 2006 at 08:48

Nismo said:
Its far better looking than most consoles. Actually something that would fit properly in a lounge and not look like a toy.

720p support would be nice for the Wii, DVD playback would be quite handy too.

Lies, the PanasonicQ looks like a 6 years olds plastic boombox. It's cheap looking.

Nismo · 31 Oct 2006 at 08:55

NokkonWud said:
Lies, the PanasonicQ looks like a 6 years olds plastic boombox. It's cheap looking.

By that reckoning, the 360, PS3, normal Gamecube, Xbox, PS2 etc etc. look like fisher price toys

Snow-Munki · 31 Oct 2006 at 08:56

hope it's something quite big, extra remote / game would be really good.

Nintendo seem to do this a lot don't they. wsan't the DS touch screen mentioned last minute aswell ?

VIRII · 31 Oct 2006 at 09:15

Nismo said:
By that reckoning, the 360, PS3, normal Gamecube, Xbox, PS2 etc etc. look like fisher price toys

The PS3 reminds me of one of those huge american style fridges. :confused:

nintenjo · 31 Oct 2006 at 09:33

VIRII said:
The PS3 reminds me of one of those huge american style fridges.

You mean a load of SMEG.

Echo toxin · 31 Oct 2006 at 12:09

I read somewhere that the secret is going to be a holographic projector! Hmm... :confused:

JimmyEatWorms · 31 Oct 2006 at 12:16

Maybe it's going to have a built in PS3 emulator

Andelusion · 31 Oct 2006 at 12:20

Built in potty

lordrobs · 31 Oct 2006 at 12:29

I think the suprise is that its delayed until 2009... or that 50% of them will die with just 3 blinking red lights for comfort... or that the power supply is the size of a small car.

Bossy papa · 31 Oct 2006 at 12:29

a price drop to £100

~J~ · 31 Oct 2006 at 13:57

Echo toxin said:
I read somewhere that the secret is going to be a holographic projector! Hmm...

Nope, that was a speculation pre E3 that Nintendo were incorporating a laser projector into the controller/console because they'd filed a patent of that technology.

Maybe Wii2.

The Running Man · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:00

nintendo said the wii wont sport a DVD player apart from in a SE in JPN because the cost was inherantly bad compared to the lowcost DVD players available in europe?

also, i think the Gamecube can be modded to play DVDs!

Logsi · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:12

I reckon its release date will be moved a week early!

Thats what was told to me when i was in a local game store as there yield rate was excellent!

punky_munky · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:43

Wouldn't DVD playback be easily added at a later date with a software download? Or does the drive itself need special chips to deal with region coding etc?

I think people get far too excited and over hype these "secrets", it's almost always a dissapointment. The speculation is fun though.

Wrathamon · 31 Oct 2006 at 14:45

punky_munky said:
Wouldn't DVD playback be easily added at a later date with a software download? Or does the drive itself need special chips to deal with region coding etc?

Software would be enough.

The problem is the associated license fees for supporting DVD playback. It's why it was going to be an optional dongle much like how you had to buy the remote control for the original xbox to enable the DVD playback - so the license royalty would be covered as part of that price.

Snow-Munki · 14 Nov 2006 at 23:27

guess there is / was no secret ??

unless you count the DVD playback it ?!? :confused:

~J~ · 14 Nov 2006 at 23:29

The secret has been and gone matey.

Wasn't anything to do with us, hence why I didn't post. It was the reviewers and press kits were delivered in Ice-Cream vans over the weekend. Booooooring.

NokkonWud · 14 Nov 2006 at 23:31

Oi, get on Xbox live ~J~. Now.