The Wii Is Obviously Not Just A GameCube

By Nick | October 4, 2006

It seems that a common practise for Nintendo critics is to bring up references where Nintendo likens the Wii to the GameCube. Most recently, a lot of blogs are reporting on GameBrink’s translation of an interview with Miyamoto from the August 2006 edition of Japanese magazine NintendoDREAM.

There isn’t really anything new in the article, but it is a good read. Ignoring the other interesting information in the article, most blogs seems to be highlighting a portion of the interview in which Miyamoto describes the Wii hardware as basically a GameCube:

“The hardware is basically a GC. We