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[Kiki Neko-Chan]

Article: http://mynintendonew...ing-next-month/

I read this story on MyNintendoNews and thought to myself: What would a Wii Mini look like? I went to the drawing board (Photoshop) and designed this.



for comparison, here's the Wii Family Edition.



Just a note: I left out some details like the shape of the disk drive and a small indent in the SD drive slot. This is a basic idea of what I think it would look like (if it were to be real)

Edited by Keanu Riives, 24 November 2012 - 07:52 AM.

[YoshiGamer9]

Article: http://mynintendonew...ing-next-month/

I read this story on MyNintendoNews and thought to myself: What would a Wii Mini look like? I went to the drawing board (Photoshop) and designed this.



for comparison, here's the Wii Family Edition.



Just a note: I left out some details like the shape of the disk drive and a small indent in the SD drive slot. This is a basic idea of what I think it would look like (if it were to be real)

Can't see it whoops! Never mind! Smaller version of the wii family edition... it works!

Edited by yoshinin10d0h!gamer9, 24 November 2012 - 07:46 AM.

[Kiki Neko-Chan]

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[Tom]

Kind of a weird move on Nintendo's part, considering that they're stopping the production of any new Wii games. ._.

[YoshiGamer9]

Kind of a weird move on Nintendo's part, considering that they're stopping the production of any new Wii games. ._.

Probably really fake and dumb.

[Eggplante!]

This makes sense and it doesn't. The consoles can only be so much smaller in width because the DVD is a fixed length. The length could be shortened, as well as the height slightly, but there still needs to be enough room for GameCube ports and memory card slots as well, assuming they don't remove those.

The only market I can see for this is the crowd that wants to play GameCube games because they can't do that on their Wii U. Of course, that is a feature that Nintendo could take out of the Wii Mini or whatever it's called.

Given that the console hasn't been announced and the Wii U hasn't been out for more than a few weeks, we just don't see this happening. Then again, more bizarre things have happened before.

[Blake]

It shall be called the Wee Wii.

[Old Leaf]

Not going to happen in a million years.

[SoldMyWiiUAndLeftTheForums]

It's quite funny actually, I don't know why I just don't see the point

[Portal]

I don't see the point. The Wii is done. A great system and plenty of great games. Just focus on the Wii U now. Let retailers handle the selling of last Wii units.

[Press]

Hope it doesn't happen. Like, I seriously don't know what Nintendo is doing anymore.

[Eggplante!]

Don't forget, the Game Boy Micro came out a year after DS when they stopped making GBA games, but that was also a pretty big failure so who knows.

[Ixchel]

This makes sense and it doesn't. The consoles can only be so much smaller in width because the DVD is a fixed length. The length could be shortened, as well as the height slightly, but there still needs to be enough room for GameCube ports and memory card slots as well, assuming they don't remove those.

The only market I can see for this is the crowd that wants to play GameCube games because they can't do that on their Wii U. Of course, that is a feature that Nintendo could take out of the Wii Mini or whatever it's called.

Given that the console hasn't been announced and the Wii U hasn't been out for more than a few weeks, we just don't see this happening. Then again, more bizarre things have happened before.

It probably won't be able to play GC games because the "family edition" removed support for it. So while I can see them making it even smaller... I don't really see a point. Maybe to save material costs while they ride the death out? :/ It's probably a fake rumour.

[Eggplante!]

It probably won't be able to play GC games because the "family edition" removed support for it. So while I can see them making it even smaller... I don't really see a point. Maybe to save material costs while they ride the death out? :/ It's probably a fake rumour.

That's true. It might also be a surprise with perhaps two GC ports instead of four, and just a single memory card slot. Then again, I might be out to lunch. Of course, it would probably cannibalize their own sales if they made GameCube games available on the Wii U Virtual Console/eShop. Then again, how would we manage with controls? Even the Pro Controller doesn't line up with the GC controller unless you remap all the buttons to be inverse (analog on the top, buttons on the bottom).

[HaoSenVastForest]

The Wii is small enough....

[Abcdude]

[Desert Punk]

If they released a top loading budget wii without the slot loading mechanism they could bring back gamecube compatibility. The reason they dropped it was because of the expense of the dvd drive that took small discs but a top loading mechanism is much cheaper and eliminates that issue. Also remember in many countries like south america they won't spend much on games consoles so they tend to go for budget choices like ps2. The wii mini could take on the ps2 in those countries.

[Goose]

They are still selling Wiis in developing countries. This reduces costs on construction.

[TanookiRicky]

Well, here's your official first look at the "Wii Mini", brought to you by The Verge.

[TomBollandLTD]

Best buy have it available for preorder, it looks pretty nifty if you ask me!

Beat me to it Tanooki

Edited by TomBollandLTD, 27 November 2012 - 04:45 AM.