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But technically, the Wii was just a faster GameCube under the hood. That's what I was really getting at, I guess.


Power wise that was supposed to be (roughly) accurate. But Wii Sports was so successful I think it made the 'Nintendo is for little kids' image much stronger. At a time when Nintendo could have really used more mature and 3rd party games those publishers might have been scared off by the shovel ware system for people who aren't between 14-65.




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