could be worse
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Quite the earth shattering discovery..
Real talk tho, does this mean that the WII's own gimmick was meant to
be an accessory for the Gamecube?
Either that, or it was a tech prototype. No sense in designing a new console if the tech it needs to run is crap. I'm leaning on the former, though. Tech conceptts can be done on PC too.
I mean the Wii is also essentially a Gamecube, so it's probably from a time when they had the hardware and software developed, but didn't have a console design yet.
Im not quite sure how to word this but it surprises me less to imagine it being developed on the gamecube and more-so to imagine a world where the console after the gamecube tried the 'serious console but with some gimmick ports and features slapped on' thing that the GC and the N64 did.
People attribute the switch's design to the wiiu for obvious reasons, but seeing this makes me think it was the original wii's success that taught Nintendies to double down on the gimmick.
I think the WiiU and Switch were both attempts at attacking two form factors/markets at once: The traditional home TV console market (which is what the dock is for), and portable gaming which has largely become the playground of smartphone/tablet platforms. Nintendo has had a presence in the portable gaming market since the advent of the Gameboy, but compared to modern smartphones even the 3DS is somewhat weak, and the portable ecosystem is divorced from the TV console ecosystem except for the rare accessory like Super Gameboy.
The Wii (and, as we're seeing, Wiimote prototypes during the Gamecube era) was Nintendo's first modern foray into motion control, setting the stage for a TV/portable hybrid console. The WiiU was a transitional console and quite flawed, but more from bad marketing than straight bad hardware design - it had the tablet form factor going, with integrated motion controls, but it still had to anchor itself to the base console. The Switch can be seen as a from-scratch rethink on the WiiU, with the entire console being packed into the tablet so it can act fully independent of the base station plugged into the TV and the joycons made detatchable instead of molded into the tablet face for all of the versatility benefits that provides.
The Switch is the child of multiple stacked gimmicks, and it looks like it might outshine both its antecedents.
We've known the Wiimote was originally intended to be a GameCube addon. Nintendo decided to save it to be the main controller for the next console so that it would be the standard control scheme; no one pays attention to optional peripherals.
ya the wii is just a slightly more powerful gamecube, it didn't even do 1080p output even though tvs were all rapidly switching to it in the US market and japan had already been switching.
Didn't they design the 3DS 3D tech for the gamecube first too? Something that they wanted to do for Luigi's Mansion or something.
this is how nintendo works
They were trying to figure out how to do 3D with no glasses with the virtual boy. Obviously that was a total failure but they figured it out by the 3DS.
Yup, that's what the Digital AV out was for on the DOL-001. When they realized its wasn't going to pan out they made the DOL-101 revision without the port.
It's kind of funny because nowadays the -001 models are sought after because there are HDMI converters for the Digital AV out port.
these have been known about and been in collector's hands before.
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Makes a lot of sense, considering the Wii's computing power is equivalent to two Gamecubes duct-taped together
They wanted to do it for the GBA but the resolution was too low. They implemented it for the GC portable screen though
I wish we still measured graphics power in Gamecubes
Nintendo systems' -001 models are almost always more sought after than their -101 models, because the -101 models are usually made to cut costs near that system's end-of-life by removing some lesser-used functionality. The only real exception is the Wii U, because the WUP-101 is the 32GB Deluxe model that was released at the same time as the WUP-001, the 8GB Basic model (which leads to the odd inversion of the WUP-001 being both rarer and less desired than the WUP-101). For the GameCube, the digital-out port and why it ended up being removed from the DOL-101 is a whole story in and of itself, especially the cable that goes with it.
The remote kinda gives me gameboy micro vibes
Well the D-pad and b/a (a.k.a. 1/2 in the final Wiimote) buttons are clearly ripped from a GBA SP. No other Nintendo system uses that model of D-pad.
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