Author Topic: Wii's hardware (Read 22538 times)

Requiem · « **Reply #75 on:** May 17, 2006, 08:06:14 PM »

I don't think there'll be a need for Wii 25 years down the line.

I'd imagine Nintendo coming out with something that much more incredible.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #76 on:** May 17, 2006, 11:10:03 PM »

Hey speaking of Wii hardware, can anyone substaniate these rumors going around that the Wii cpu is 1.1ghz?

WesDawg · « **Reply #77 on:** May 18, 2006, 12:37:51 PM »

Did anyone else notice this in the PGC interview:

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PGC: We saw at the press conference that when everyone was playing tennis, they had Mr. Iwata's face and everyone else's face put on the characters. Are there any thoughts of putting in a system were players can draw their own faces?

TT: Yeah, that's going to be a part of [Wii Sports] and it's going to have hardware functionality, that you will be able to use some set images and match them up together to create faces. You can also do some editing of your own to create stuff that's closer to yourself and your friends. These will remain in the hardware system so that you can use them throughout the Wii Sports titles and maybe with other software titles, too. We'll just see how that works….so we'll have a character-creating piece of software, I guess.

Does this imply that the character creation software is build in, like PictoChat?

SgtShiversBen · « **Reply #78 on:** May 18, 2006, 12:46:33 PM »

...the Wii controllers weren't wired at E3...

Who told you such nonsense about them being wired?! BUBBLES ON YOU!

mantidor · « **Reply #79 on:** May 18, 2006, 03:48:09 PM »

other bit about the hardware is the new loading system, as can be seen here. My first concern about this back when they only showed the console was leaving fingerprints easily, it looks like that wont be a problem, but I do have my doubts about the slot entrance, its possible that it can scratch the discs when they are inserted? I always thought that something like a thin line of velvet surface of some kind right in the entrance could prevent any type of scratch at all. Nintendo really didnt commented a lot on this, how was the entrance slot? is it scracth-friendly? Im very obsessed about that, I take care of my GC discs like if they were my little children.

Athrun Zala · « **Reply #80 on:** May 18, 2006, 06:37:38 PM »

you know, I'm kinda concerned about that too, since I'm also overprotective of my games (afterall, they're really expensive here, and not many people often go to the US....)

actually, I'm more concerned of how it will handle GC games (since most slot-loading drives accept 12cm CD/DVD only) :S

BigJim · « **Reply #81 on:** May 18, 2006, 08:30:37 PM »

I had a DVD stuck inside a slot-loading laptop drive before.

Let's just say there was no nice was to remove it...

I hope their drive won't ever require any "reverse engineering" of our own to get our discs back.

wandering · « **Reply #82 on:** May 18, 2006, 10:23:06 PM »

I'm sure the slot-loading drive will work well and won't scratch your discs. This is Nintendo, afterall.

IceCold · « **Reply #83 on:** May 18, 2006, 10:30:40 PM »

The same Nintendo that made Yoshi's Story

EasyCure · « **Reply #84 on:** May 19, 2006, 06:50:08 AM »

i already posted a link to that and i guess no one checked it

i was more took in by how small the system is in comparison to the disc, but you'rs was a valid question mantidor. honestly im sure nintendo will provide a quality product on all fronts, they always do, so im sure your Wii and GC disc won't get damaged being entered and ejected from the system.

speaking of nintendo's hardware being kick ass; i recently dropped my GC from over five feet, landed face first on top of both my memorty cards and i thought that ATLEAST my memory cards would be trashed, but they and the system are working fine. though now my gc has a battle scar across the front, and if i take out one of the cards that flap wont close unless i tap the front end of it lol.

my point is, you shouldn't worry about it

vudu · « **Reply #85 on:** May 19, 2006, 09:30:27 AM »

Who here has a slot-loading CD player in their car? Who here is old enough to drive? How many CDs has it scratched? Mine's scratched zero.

Crimm · « **Reply #86 on:** May 19, 2006, 10:33:00 AM »

When I bought my car, in '02 I think, it had the original manufacturer's CD player in there (car was made in '99). It scratched 3.
I replaced it soon after and that one has never scratched any, including the easily damaged CD-RWs.

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #87 on:** May 19, 2006, 10:52:37 AM »

GoNintendo has a report that states the CPU for the Wii is not the reported 7oomhz, but actually 1.1GHz...though it is only a rumor at this point.

I think it is good to note that probably means RAM is being upgraded, or those initial reports about SPECS were completely false.

I predict a nice 128MEGS RAM will be in the Wii, and that is a pretty good solid amount. I also expect Nintendo Wii launch games to be much better looking than they were at E3.

thejeek · « **Reply #88 on:** May 19, 2006, 11:09:06 AM »

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GoNintendo has a report that states the CPU for the Wii is not the reported 7oomhz, but actually 1.1GHz...though it is only a rumor at this point.

Is this simply repeating the same rumour that surfaced a couple of days ago, or is there a second source for this?

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #89 on:** May 19, 2006, 12:27:49 PM »

I dunno. GoNintendo reported it from the IGNTOONS guy.

He was commenting about E3 on his blog, and said bluntly that the 1.1 Ghz Wii CPU surprised him because everyone was expecting much less.

Is that the same rumor? Is it different? Where did he hear that? I dunno.

But 1.1 Ghz isn't overly powerful, but it isn't as under powered as the idea of a 750mhz. And that could bod well like I mentioned for the potential of a RAM upgrade.

wandering · « **Reply #90 on:** May 19, 2006, 12:47:21 PM »

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Originally posted by: IceCold
The same Nintendo that made Yoshi's Story

Touché.

BigJim · « **Reply #91 on:** May 19, 2006, 01:39:17 PM »

My GameCube's drive died back in February and I didn't drop it.

I rarely moved it. Engineering oopsies exist even from Nintendo. But to their credit that was the first time anything Nintendo-branded died on me.

Edit: Actually, I just remembered I had to re-buy the NES since it had the classic "blow in the slot" issue.

mantidor · « **Reply #92 on:** May 19, 2006, 02:27:17 PM »

Oh I have no doubts of Nintendo's quality in hardware, my DS has fallen more than once, sometimes even opened, and it has survived with few scratches and perfect functionality, is just that Im very obsessed about it, like Athrun Zala said, games arent cheap by any means in the region, neither consoles, and the usual response "get another one" is not an option. It seems Im going to have to be even more careful about the discs.

ShyGuy · « **Reply #93 on:** May 19, 2006, 04:35:15 PM »

Spak Spang, yeah I've looked into the 1.1ghz rumor and it does seem to trace back to what IGNToons guy said. But of course, he got the rumor from somewhere else.

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As far as the Wii itself is concerned, there hasn’t been much to report. We did hear more about its tech specs though. While the 1.1Ghz PowerPC* CPU doesn’t compare to the PS3’s Cell processor in terms of power, it is much faster than I was initially expecting. I was thinking somewhere in the 750 MHz range. I agree with Nintendo in that it is true that tech specs don’t really matter to the people who play the games. But I still want to know what they are. There’s nothing wrong with that, is there Nintendo? One thing we didn’t hear more about was the device that can enable the Wii to play DVD movies. Hopefully we will find out more about that soon.

*Editors note: The 1.1Ghz PowerPC was not confirmed by Nintendo. The CPU speed is based on a rumor that I came across. So while I can not say what the confirmed CPU speed will be, I can say that I am hopeful it will be 1.1 GHz. I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

Personally, I wanna hear more about this physics system that Konami let slip out in the Elebits interview at IGN.

Crimm · « **Reply #94 on:** May 19, 2006, 05:34:05 PM »

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Originally posted by: mantidor
Oh I have no doubts of Nintendo's quality in hardware, my DS has fallen more than once, sometimes even opened, and it has survived with few scratches and perfect functionality...

For some reason this made me think of the Gulf War GameBoy.

IceCold · « **Reply #95 on:** May 19, 2006, 07:36:38 PM »

And the Mount Everest DS

Spak-Spang · « **Reply #96 on:** May 19, 2006, 09:11:38 PM »

Shyguy: Thanks for the update. Yeah, that edit wasn't there when I first looked over the story. Hopefully that rumor is actually true. Though, that would mean the initial speculated specs were flawed. And Nintendo couldn't have last minuted changed its mind...this thing had to have been planned this powerful from the beginning.

EasyCure · « **Reply #97 on:** May 20, 2006, 06:56:50 PM »

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Originally posted by: vudu
Who here has a slot-loading CD player in their car? Who here is old enough to drive? How many CDs has it scratched? Mine's scratched zero.

exactly. i never once scatched a cd in either my moms car or my own. then one day you tell someone to put a cd in for you cuz you're lazy and they put it in wrong and scratch the hell out of it

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so mantidor, the impression you're giving me is that since replacing something is not an option for you, you would take care of your things more so than some of us, right? well if thats the case and you're being slightly obsessive compulsive about it, you'll take good care of your Wii disc and load them in properly, because there is no question in my mind that the Wii would scratch your disc upon insertion. any damage would be from you

mantidor · « **Reply #98 on:** May 20, 2006, 07:12:12 PM »

yeah but is easier to scratch a disc with the Wii than to do it with the GC.

jasonditz · « **Reply #99 on:** May 20, 2006, 09:30:46 PM »

My current system is a 1.0 Ghz PPC, and it's plenty peppy... I see no reason why a 1.1 Ghz chip with higher speed RAM shouldn't be plenty for a 480p display

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