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Nintendo Also Believes the Wii is a GameCube

Irony like you've never seen it... not even in movies

By Filip Truta, Games Editor

17th of May 2007, 14:47 GMT

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Irony's a... No, I promissed I wouldn't say it!

Remember talk of the Wii being nothing more than two GameCubes stuck together with duct tape? Of course you do. Some even said that the Wii is a GameCube with a motion sensitive controller. But what if I told you that Nintendo started to believe the same? Now that, you wouldn't believe I'm sure, but you will shortly.

Nintendo has an irreproachable customer service, no doubt about that, but when Kotaku reader Ham sent his Wii in for a replacement... well, here's what happened:

"i received my replacement wii in the mail today (quite speedy since i sent in the request last friday), and when i opened it up, lo and behold, the label heralded the arrival of my gamecube replacement. all that griping about the wii really being just two gamecubes stuck together must have gotten to someone up at NOA. i had a good laugh"

Take a look at the picture to the left. It says GameCube does it not? Nintendo's staff must be so into this GameCube story surrounding the Wii, that they accidentally placed a GameCube stamp on the Wii's shipping box. Do they even take broken GameCubes back? Well, yeah, if retailers still have them new in their boxes, then I suppose they do.

And this is just one story about the Wii and its capabilities. Some even say that it doesn't have the necessary horsepower to even fit the next-gen category. And they may be telling the truth. The console is fun, popular, but also quite cheap. Why do you reckon it's cheap...?

You know, there's a saying about irony. I'm not going to write it, as everyone's so familiar with it, but in this case, someone should scream saying it to Nintendo. Their console sells, it's fun, addictive even, but it is just an improved GameCube. Fate decided to rub it in for Nintendo.

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Nintendo | GameCube | Wii | stamp

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