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PopSci disassembles their Wii! (then bricks it...) |
Listed in: Wii Tags: N64, Popular Science
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PopSci gets its very own Wii. PopSci runs around the room screaming "Wiiiiiiiiii!" like the N64 kid. PopSci plays with its Wii. PopSci decides it's time to show off the Wii's inside (like, you know, other people showing off the PS3's guts), and proceeds to disassemble the little white box.
Cover your eyes and ears, kids, if you fear what happens next. PopSci bricks their Wii in the process.
But the Wii proved to be one tough nut to crack. Due to Nintendo's special proprietary screws, we had to resort to brute force. And in the process of doing so, our precious white beacon of joy was rendered unplayable, forever.
The show must go on, of course, and the photos splayed out before you today are those of PopSci meticulously examining the bits and pieces of a once-functioning Wii. Now we don't know what PopSci did that bricked the widdle white Wii, whether it was the shock of prying the case open, exposing the parts inside, or something else entirely.
We also don't know if there is a way to make the Wii playable again, like parts replacement, or connecting a wire or two - and it's not like Nintendo's warranty covers intentional disembowelment of the Wii.
Or if it was simply because, as a handful of comments to the PopSci article point out, those guys really don't know how to use a screwdriver. And they call themselves "PopSci" (this isn't our sarcasm talking - it's theirs. The commenters, we mean). Well, if PopSci can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again, time for them to get back in line.
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What would be really funny is if Nintendo put some sort of trip device in their Wii that rendered it bricked if people tried to tamper with it, that way people wouldn't be able to mod it. Like if you forced it open, it'd short out an important circuit or something that would keep the Wii from turning on ever again.
Can't open it, can't mod it. Can't mod it, no piracy. I wonder if it's even possible, if it is, why hasn't anyone ever done that instead of just 'voiding the warranty'?
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All Buy the PS3~~!!!!
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Anyway PS3 have been encountering hardware faults as we you all read this and it's best for a person to be wise and wait than rather getting it at the early stage coz as we know it, the PS3 right now it just an experiement for guinea pigs *desparate buyers* (no offense for the so-called sony fanboys). Sony wanting the buyers to encounter these errors so that they can learn from the mistakes they made and fix those bugs.. but i hope the people who encountered it were able to get a replacement console.
and to those so-called fan boys you guys should stay put and stop wasting time on commenting about Wii being suck.. i in the other hand like all people accept the fact about who likes wat, I don't bloody care if u like or hate PS3 or Wii or even the 360, we can't make people to like what you like, to aprecciate you, that totally selfishness.
if you don't like it, you have to live with it.
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