Wii guts (Pics)

Pete · November 19, 2006, 22:43:45 PM

Someone took a wii apart, the pics are fairly crappy and the website is rubbish too so:

case off:

Fan:

Metal bit between drive and board

wifi aerial (1 of 2)

wifi doo-dah

Main board:

Heatsink:

Card reader & stuff:

Both wifi aerials:

Broadway & Hollywood:

Everything:

Leon · November 19, 2006, 22:46:06 PM

Tiny

not much in there really

neXus · November 20, 2006, 01:29:34 AM

Quote from: DoomsTiny not much in there really

Cheap as chips and does the job

Well sort of

Its going to be a kick ass console, got to hand it to Nintendo they were looking dead and buried.
Thing is though MS and the 360 Is not all that much more expensive then the Wii and does so much more and they can always bring out interactive devices for it, they already have guitar hero and the camera and games planed for that and I am sure more to follow.

Will be interesting

PS3 I doubt will do very well its already breaking on people

Serious · November 20, 2006, 01:31:00 AM

Enough to keep people interested though, good things tend to come in little packages

Leon · November 20, 2006, 10:00:11 AM

They esp think that in Japan, its going to sell insanly well over there

Sweenster · November 20, 2006, 10:32:07 AM

I remember a console from Japan that was more than just console, with cool features, it was called the dreamcast...

That did amazingly well in japan, but struggled everywhere else.

Whilst i hope nintendo release enough volume of games to keep people happy, i can see it turning into a japan biased console especially isolating europe.

Leon · November 20, 2006, 12:17:20 PM

I love my dreamcast, i still play on it! Brilliant console (if not just a little noisey)

neXus · November 22, 2006, 00:03:44 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTGSkYRDpWY

Sweenster · November 22, 2006, 00:09:02 AM

Interesting, clever way out for nintendo to extend battery life

neXus · November 22, 2006, 02:00:13 AM

Quote from: SweensterInteresting, clever way out for nintendo to extend battery life

Whole thing about the wii, while the strap may be not strong enough they have thought about everything else though very hard. The have not had the tech with them so they thought long and hard about it.
It is quite clever.

funkychicken9000 · November 22, 2006, 08:46:00 AM

Quote from: neXushttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTGSkYRDpWY

Yarr. First thing I do when I get my Wii (if I end up getting one that is) is to wirelessify the bar. I reckon if theyve been sensible the bar will just recieve 5v or something from the Wii.

Also, this is intersting for anyone from a technical perspective:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=677908&seqNum=1&rl=1

and also:

http://www.semiconductor.com/resources/press_releases/2006_11_20_1.asp

If anyones interested, the motion sensing part of the remotes comes courtesy of the Analog Devices ADXL300. These chips are Ã,Â£10 each from farnell if you want to order them singly

neXus · November 22, 2006, 13:21:31 PM

Good read that, look at that compared to them tryign to open ps3
http://www.semiconductor.com/resources/press_releases/2006_11_15_1.asp

funkychicken9000 · November 23, 2006, 10:33:40 AM

That didnt take long. Yarr, just as I predicted.

Why did he bother building a new one?! Scoping what voltage the Wii sends it and building a PSU/batteries to plug into the nicely built original one is far more sensible.

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