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I'll get the wii version. unless its more expensive than the GC

Despite what this article seems to say, there are going to be major gameplay differences between the two consoles. The Wii is a fully interactive system, and the control scheme will show this. Rather than sitting on your duff and playing on the GC version, players will be more likely to be up and moving on the Wii. The Wii controller is designed to make players have to move to make things happen, such as what was shown in the unique little fishing game demonstrated at E3. Another sample showed how the controller when pulled back will draw the bow, and a small speaker in the controller will sound the creaking of the bowstrings in the player's ear. I don't know about you, but this sounds like some interesting differences to me!

the wii will play both versions, gamecube and wii version. SO what the hell are you complaining about. How is that going to affect competition at all. You all are morons, think before you post a huge article on nothing.

Nintendo is dumb to release both right away. They should release the Wii one first with no plans for a GCN version. People will by a Wii strictly to get the next game in the Zelda franchise. If the game does well, release the GCN one 6-9 months down the road. Someone in marketing should be fired...

I don't get it. Why would they release two versions if the only difference is the controls? Surely they can just add the code to the GC version and have it only activate when the game is loaded on a Wii.



If there is absolutely no difference between the two other than that, then this just seems like another attempt from Nintendo to squeeze more money out of its customers.

Chekote, you are an idiot. How do you think they are trying to 'squeeze' money from people? Are you implying that they are trying to get people to buy the Wii and GC versions even though they're the same game? Why the hell would someone buy both when all the Wii one is is the GC one with Wii remote support. No one knows if it is possible to include wiimote support on a GC disc, but that isn't even the point at all. I can't beleive all these comments are saying "OMG nintendo why are you doing this, your marketing is dumb. It should be wii only" etc etc etc...



They are doing one of the most generous things a game company has done, they've taken a flagship title and not forced you to buy the next gen system to play it. They are offering a more featured version (wiimote feature) for wii owners but still giving the option to own the game for people who can't buy a wii just yet but own gamecube. How can you even think to criticize them for that?

How do you know that they could do that? Theycould have filled a GC disc with just the normal disc. Remember the Wii discs are larger.



If they were squeezing money they would only release it on the Wii, so people would have to get the Wii to play it. By releasing it on both, it's letting people who don't want a Wii straight away.Actually, this is the only time I can ever think of a company doing something for the customer instead of profit.

Why in the world would you complain about nintendo giving the consumers a cheaper option for those that can't afford the upgrade? That's like saying that PS2 owners should have to buy a PS3 just to play God of War 2, even though they could release it on a PS2. Its idiocy.

the wii version should be better

What might be a very wise move for Nintendo is to package both versions together. Let's say I buy a the dual package for my GC. Whenever I'm looking to buy a nextgen console, I'll remember, hey I already have a wii game. This may not seem all that bright to those who read this website, but it would be a way for Nintendo to "prepackage a game" without actually doing so.



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I think this article is on the wrong track. As far as I know Nintendo intends to release only ONE version of the game. Kind of like marketting it as a gamecube game with special features for the Wii (more specifically, its controller).



What you have to understand is that the Revolution is very similar to the GameCube. It uses basically the same processor & video chipset, it is simply faster, and some extra GPU features have been added for it. Kind of like how PC's evolve, taking doom3 as an example, depending on the hardware it runs on, different code paths get executed. However, more or less it runs on the same hardware. It is the same case with the GameCube and the Wii.



So, even IF Nintendo did physically sell two versions, they would probably be identical executable code wise - if not, the gamecube version will definately run on the Wii anyways since the hardware layout and everything else is virtually the same, it would just probably get better frame rates and such. It is probably more a case of the game detecting the Wii's controller and then enabling its special features.



The only thing I can think of is that perhaps they want to have higher res textures, in which case doing a separate release on the Wii's larger capacity discs make sense. However, to put everyone's fears to rest, the Wii is basically a beefed up version of the GameCube, so if you bought the game for the GameCube, then got a Wii, you won't have to buy the game again at the very least.





Hope that clears things up.