New Wii Pictures

[Gillespee]

Notice that I didn't use the word.

Sorry, I was speaking generally, not to you in particular.

Viral Mutation - If you don't think that the Wii and the DS Lite designs were heavily influenced by the ipod, you're crazy.

It does not look bad (by any means.) I just dislike how we went from a nice black color to "white-like-everything-else."

I wonder a little about the "normal" controller attachment too. Having a wire hanging to the wiimote kind of defeats the purpose of "wireless." But the wiimote's light as a feather, right? We might not even notice if it's hooked on the back as in the picture. Any comment from someone who's held a wiimote before?

[Snarkey]

^ You're right, because anything white is influenced by the iPod! Everybody knows Apple invented white! Sheesh!

But I do know what you mean, black is more desirable, IMO.

[koten]

Are you guys saying nice things about the Wii cause it looks like the Ipod ?

It needs to be said. You're one of the stupidest people I've ever had the misfortune to know.

[HolyPaladin]

I think the Wii looks the best of all three of the consoles...a year ago, I was the exact opposite. Today though, compared to the behemoth size of the PS3, it looks amazing.

I don't have any beef with the looks of the PS3 or the 360, but I personally feel that the Wii is the best-looking of the three, as well. That's terrific following a predecessor that looked like a purple lunchbox. (I didn't care what the GameCube looked like, but a lot of folks did.)

[BigfootGus]

I hate GC haters

[Gillespee]

^ You're right, because anything white is influenced by the iPod! Everybody knows Apple invented white! Sheesh!

But I do know what you mean, black is more desirable, IMO.

Remember back when all white appliances belonged in the kitchen? Pod-Purists would say that Apple did not invent white, but it did perfect it. Though the trendiness of the Pod-White does bug me, what REALLY bugs me is that companies think all consumers want is Appley looking stuff. And it really bugs me EVEN MORE when they're right.

[Nintendragon]

Yeah, I am not in love with the classic controller... and it hooking up to the regular one... do I have three hands now? I am just curious how that is going to work. Noiiice pictures though. It is quite the sexy little beast. That and I hope they give you the option to turn off the blue light on the disk slot. It's nice, but it could be a little distracting at night with the lights off, or if I am watching a movie on it.

Wait...Wii is going to play movies? How did I overlook this? Is there an extra item that will be required in order to play movies or something?

[Zeep]

yeah, iwata said way back when that it could play DVDs, but only with an extra dongle.

[BahnNZ]

nice find...i like the white wii

*bites lip*

[the poe collector]

*bites lip*

just do it...you know you want to:evillaugh

[Eidorian]

yeah, iwata said way back when that it could play DVDs, but only with an extra dongle.

I believe that was then changed to plays DVD out of the box.

[the poe collector]

If there is an add-on or something to play dvds I'll probably buy it, all my systems that play dvds are more reliable than my dvd players

[Haris]

I thought it was supposed to play DVDs out of the box...

[Generosity of God]

i havent read anything about DVD player out of the box being announced. so all i know so far is it needs an extra dongle.

what i heard is the dongle is there so that we pay for the licence to use it as a player. which isnt bad considering that instead of charging everyone for it they only charge the people who want to use it. with that said though it wouldnt be much extra on top of the console price if it was out of the box.

i'll probably use mine as a dvd player. i watch my dvds using my computer. i'd like to watch them without having to turn my computer on because its just too noisy.