Talk:Wii/Archive 11

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Back catalogue image

Is the image BackCatalog.jpg necessary? It looks ugly and doesn't really help illustrate the topic much. Plus, the caption "With the Virtual Console you could play games from..." (emphasis mine) seems like a rather too informal tone. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 19:44, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree and I've removed the image. jaco♫plane 19:51, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

It got re-added in. Perhaps we can have a discussion here as to why it should or shouldn't be in the article rather than a revert war? I'll weigh in with my two cents: 1) I don't find that it's terribly aesthetically appealing (it clashes heavily with the other images in the article in terms of style), and 2) there's no info in there that can't be just as easily explained in the text itself. g026r 23:23, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Plus one further point: the logos used are also rather locale specific. For example: the Genesis had a different name and logo outside of North America. An argument could be made that it was called the Genesis during the announcement only because the announcement was being made at a N. American event (GDC), but that the name Mega Drive is just as appropriate to use, given that it has roughly as wide a usage as the name Genesis (3,300,000 results for "Sega Megadrive" OR "Sega Mega Drive" vs. 3,360,000 for "Sega Genesis") and it was sold as such in a wider range of countries. g026r 23:43, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Found New Specs?

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Could this be accurate? More powerful than IGN has said. . . Infinitys 7th 23:45, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I say dont add anything that isnt confermed by Nintendo.--DivineShadow218 00:26, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

The stuff that the article got from Nintendo's website is already in this article [2]. The stuff about the speed isn't necessarily about the Wii's CPU itself, but rather about the specific family of CPUs. Therefore, while 1.1GHz is what IBM currently says that the 750GX can run at [3], it doesn't mean that's the speed that the Broadway CPU itself will use. g026r 00:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Where did the large Wii image come from?

It links to a page within Nintendo's Wii site, but I can't locate this large image or any others there. I'm curious. 24.76.102.140 00:35, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Name: Wii Kanji?

"'Wii' is also a seldom-used Japanese kanji, roughly translated as "constant change", or "if you don't like the fate that god has set out for you, you do this", or just "revolution"."

I've never heard this before. I'm going to delete it until somebody can get a cite for it. If true, that's neat and I'm surprised Nintendo didn't mention it. But I doubt its validity since Nintendo never writes Wii in anything but romanji. dojotony 01:56, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I think you had best kill it - "wi" isn't even a kana anymore in modern Japanese, and I would be very surprised to hear there is a Kanji matching this description in anything like 'seldom use'. - 219.165.164.126 01:21, 10 May 2006 (UTC)