Wii developer kit shot in the wild, many Luigi-green with envy
By Cyrus Farivar 
posted Sep 15th 2006 6:35PM
posted Sep 15th 2006 6:35PM
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wow that really is small. look at it compared to the keyboard. amazing.
Pretty impressive for a dev kit, albeit unusual for a simple up-scaling of the device. I wonder if nintendo has actually gotten everything inside 3 DVD cases worth yet.
Perhaps they'll sell faceplates as accessories?
Looks like something Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles created in his sewer lab.
i like the green color
Umm, Cody S...the Wii is in full production
Okay, so here's a question: Now that USB Mass Storage devices won't be supported (according to Kaplan, who was wrong about region-free...), what uses will there be for the USB slots?
I would definitely be willing to pay extra for a colored face-plate. But I think that them selling them as an accessory is also a good idea. The 360 does it so why not the Wii?
Lemme go buy a new pair of pants.
I bet you can take them off and recolor them. I would spraypaint mine Haruko's-Vespa-Yellow...
Amazing? its barely 50% more powerful than a gamecube they could probably fit it in a wrist watch these days!
its basically the size of a dvd drive, just crazy
I'm sick and tired of all this anti-FedEx rhetoric! Why are ya'll at engadget such friggin' UPS fanboys??!!
They will eventually make other colors I'm sure. But i'll take the white at launch. I'd prefer red or black or maybe a nice green. Although a cool face plat for $9.99 to $19.99 isn't bad either.
Personally I don't like the green front. If it were all green it might be sexy.
it's probably green so nintendo knows who sent the picture out, so they can promptly be shot
You know, I never really took Nintendo seriously. I had my Genesis Nomad, and my PS2, and I'm still not much of a gamer...
But I have to say, given the unimpressive features of the PS3, the 'up-in-th-air' status of the format war, and my current income situation, I'm digging the Wii. Nintendo may just have found themselves a customer.
So, now that ATI is part of AMD, Nintendo is taking on with the Brand colors?
Stu L Tissimus, probably USB mass storage devices later on via a firmware update or something and also for the USB-Ethernet adapter should you not want to use wireless internet at all.
may the Nintendo Wii, or anything that sounds remotely similar to it, never ever ever be called sexy or even remotely good looking again.
so with the video cables RGB better come with the system. and if its not it better be in stores unlike the gamecube rgb cable...
Am I the only one who thinks it looks pretty damn nice for a dev kit? I mean... compared to the PS3 and Xbox 360's.
I never understood the whole faceplate thing and coloring video game systems that arent portable. It just seems immature and useless to me. I guess its a teenager thing because you dont see companies making colored electronics like dvd players or home stereos usually.
I might be mistaken but they look allot thicker and fatter then standard Wiis. Atleast I hope so because that would mean that the Devkits are like stand alone Wii with development software or soething.
nice FLCL reference by 'All Your Lost Socks'...
Would you also stencil a "P!" on it?
I didn't use to be a nintendo fanboy, but with the wii...well, I would kill a man, in cold blood, in front of his mother if doing so would somehow get me one.
I still haven't figured out where you put the gamecube game discs. Everyone knows you can't put an 8cm disc in a slot load 12cm slot, and I haven't yet been able to spot an 8cm slot.
Part of the technology advance the wii has Tim.
Wiis drive has the ability to load the standard 12cm dvd or the 8cm mini.
Wii has lots of new age goodies inside
Metal-Geo: As the xbox 360 dev kit was basically the powermac g5, you're saying this looks better than that? Doubtful.
Go WII, kill xBox :)
Anyone else think the Wii looks much better just being rectangular than it does in its weird-angled stand?
Stu L Tissimus
The USB ports, i think, are going to be used for a keyboard. The Wii is going to have a web browser so A keyboard would be perfect for the Wii USB ports.
Gentlemen, this is the colour of true pwnage. Remember it with your eyes and make her hue and value the desktop of your mind. This is the colour that will destroy everything you know about the gaming industry. We shall call it 'Cthulhu Green' for the Ender of Days.
Wow... I was unfortunate enuff to see that colour only last night spewing forth from the mouth of a chav in a nightclub....
I think it will sport greeeeeeen light instead of blueeeeee found in normal Wiis....
Pfft, after the catastrophe that was the Nintendo Wii Europe Event followed of course by the news that the Wii is not region free, I wen't in a matter of days from being an avid Wii fanboy to completely and utterly disinterested.
I also know that I am not alone in this. Many, especially Europeans, are just sick of the rape. I mean, at £133 for GameCube technology + some sensors, even Japan is getting extorted.
Theft.
It looks a little cheap in these pictures. I mean, the whole thing looks really plastic-like up close. I also think its a huge deal that they have integrated wi-fi. That costs an extra 100 bucks on the 360. I'm probably not gonna use the web-browser. The DS web browser is crap. And there probably going to do what they did with the DS: launch it in one or two colors, then come out with some more.
LIL666JR, do you want them to make it out of polished wood instead?
This is the debug kit, not the dev kit
The pictures are too small, how do I make them bigger?
Lean in real close to the screen.
I would definitely be willing to pay extra for a colored face-plate. But I think that them selling them as an accessory is also a good idea. The 360 does it so why not the Wii?
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People complain to Sony for copying Nintendo. Do you really think Nintendo should copy Microsoft?
Yay! I love Luigi.
Are you sure this is a dev kit? It doesn't look anything like the ones we use.