"The patent, filed March 10 of 2006 in Japan, was for an "accelerometer-based controller." While it still wasn't named yet back then, let's just call it the Wiimote, shall we? It's catchier, even if it is suggestive. The patent held sketches of the Wiimote being used with the GameCube, communicating via a Wavebird-esque adapter."



Wasnt the wii announced way before the "accelerometer-based controller." was patented??



So... They Nintendo had only nine months to design and construct the wii???? (from march 2006 to november 2006)



hmm

here here....pure win

Exactly, but idiots like Mr. Common Douche Bag will continue to claim....well...all the BS he ATTEMPTS to claim below.



But no one believes his BS propaganda.



I bet the only reason they depict the GameCube in this image was because the Wii design wasn't fully finished. Plus, it just makes it easier to explain when an actual product already exists.

Clean your house you idiot.

No, YOU are wrong. The drive was in response to Segas CD drive. Nintendo has promissed us a DISC drive ever since then.



Quit kissing his ass.

Yeah i am aware of that. I just enjoy calling people lazy idiots when they say the wii collects dust. There's so many decent games for it that these fools cant see past the latest crappy mini game disc that's the 540893th in the series of sequels or High School Musical 3709: The grave yard reunion special.

Where else are you going to play Manhunt 2 in the most violent way possible? Where else can any fps or 3rdps be a light gun game straight out of the arcade? Where else can you play Madworld? Where else can you legally beat up school kids with your bare hands?

Only on the Wii.

Isaac really needs to be let off.

Nintendo executives said themselves that the Wiimote was originally intended as a peripheral for the GCN. Though they assumed it wouldn't sell very well so they saved the idea for their next console.



While this particular patent does state the truth that it was developed for the GCN (albeit just by having a pic of the GCN), that isn't valid proof that the Wiimote was developed for GCN. The proof was the word of either Miyamoto or Iwata who specifically stated that. Previous consoles are used all the time in patents for features of a future console either because they don't have the design complete yet, or to hide information from the public and competitors.



This is a very common occurence though. The "Play Station" (not "PlayStation", that's the console that Sony developed based on their's and Nintendo's "Play Station") was originally designed as a SNES peripheral but that's the most overtold story in the gaming industry and it's not even worth mentioning.



"Nintendo currently isn't interested in making decent quality games" - Mister Common Sense



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...please tell me you didn't mean that... I'll rephrase that for you: "Nintendo isn't interested in LICENSING decent quality games". Which is why Disaster: Day of Crisis hasn't been released in North America yet.

Bottom line...there was a disc drive for the SNES, thats where the joint venture between Sony and Nintendo started. Due to a hole in their contract, along with Philips, Nintendo never actually owned the disc drive, and in legal dispute, Sony got to keep it all. And yes, the N64 also had one, that was only released in Japan, and it never made it very far. The playstation was made simultaneously. Now as far as this goes, there is a difference between having a PERIPHERAL and an actual controller. What it would've been for the Game Cube was an addon, maybe for like a hand full of games, kinda like the Network Adapter for the game cube. Now, it is the main controller. Need we not forget the nunchuck? It's obvious at the time, it WAS just the wiiremote by itself. But you can't build an entire console without having other movement buttons, thats why the nunchuck was created. They knew they had something bigger on their hands, and if they would've just released it for a few games back then, it would've been more of a joke than it is to some of the scoffers that we have now. However, I own every current gen system (PS3, Wii, 360) and the Wii is the ONLY system that's actually fun. Here, let me explain what I mean. The console ITSELF is fun. You could play a game on any other console, and the game would have to be fun and if it's not you can just sell it back and get a different one, but you know what the fun games are. With the Wii, it's the opposite, there could be some crappy game that's made (it looks awful, has mono audio and is single player) but the controls are always going to be fun. It isn't gimmicky here, in the instance that it is the console, however, if it would've just been some addon for a game on the game cube, that you would only use a few times (bongos) then it would've been a gimmick.

His heart's in the right place...but where's his brain? Isohaven, there are PLENTY of us diehard Nintendo fans out there. But as I've stated before, they don't need someone like you chiming in every time someone says something that you find inaccurate. MCS's statements may be unfounded, hell I even remember wanting to rant at him one time because he said that the WaveBird doesn't work with the Wii. But just because he's wrong here and there doesn't mean that you need to come swinging in like Tarzan and seem all heroic...just to fly into a tree because your rants are so clumsy and way too over the top.

WTF are you talking about? Swinging in? I POSTED FIRST you idiot. What part of that did you miss? As USUAL Mr. Douche had BS to add to MY post.



If someone is going to LIE about something I posted, you damn well better believe I'm going to correct it.



Got a problem with that? Bummer!

Honestly, I agree with you 99% of the time. But you really do need to spell/grammar check a little more often. Maybe lay off a few of the exclamation points. Then idiots wouldn't have so much room to attack your comments.

Haha...yeah, WAY back in the day :)



Nah, I just have fun doing it. I work a 12 hour period 5 days a week. I get 4 hours in lunch and breaks. I need something to fill the time!



I used to mod over at PSP-HACKS.com but that became too time consuming. Then I hit newsgroups which was HORRIBLE when it comes to trolls. Then I landed here.