Nintendo Wii mockup next to stuff ... lots of stuff

71 Comments by Christopher Grant Jun 23rd 2006 10:28AM
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Retro, Nintendo Wii, Peripherals

Never again can we be accused of obsessing over the relative size of things. We admit, we're guilty of a chart here or there, and we've been known to calculate cubic volume like a mofo, but a poster at the GameFAQ's forums has just shown us how it's done.

DocCRP has crafted a pair of meticulous Wii mockups, complete with Wiimote, and proceeded to take pictures of the diminutive box next to ... well, just about everything. NES? Yup. Atari 2600? Sure. Ketchup bottle? Yeah. Dreamcatcher? Errr, yeah, that's here. John Philip Sousa award? Now it's just getting weird.

If you're really curious how the Wii sizes up compared to a 1998 US Mint Proof Set, I've handily hyperlinked the entire forum thread's worth of images after the break.

[Via DigitalBattle]

DS Lite, White Wii, Black Wii

Wii, DS Phat

Wii, DS Lite

Wii, Sega GameGear

Wii, Gamecube

NES, Wii

Wii, PlayStation 2

Wii, Atari 2600

Nintendo64, Wii

Wii, Game Boy

Oh my word ... there's more!

Wii w/ iPod

Wii w/ CD Case

Wii w/ DS Lite box

Wii w/ toy car

Wii w/ Rubik's Cube

Wii w/ Rubik's Revenge

Wii w/ PEZ Dispensers

Wii w/ pop bottle

Wii w/ ketchup bottle

Wii w/ bubbles

Wii w/ telephone

Wii w/ Nemo

Wii w/ 80's Koosh Ball

Wii w/ '99 Yomega X-Brain Wing

Wii w/ Stagg High School Marching Shako

Wii w/ Sonic the Hedgehog Comic #25

Wii w/ 5 equisized Nintendo handhelds

Wii w/ Qui-Gon Jinn

Wii w/ Mario learning card

Wii w/ space blanket

Wii w/ 3 NES games

Wii w/ Tellius

Wii w/ trumpet mute & mouthpiece

Wii w/ Webster's College Dictionary

Wii w/ Guidemap to Disney World's Magic Kingdom

Wii w/ Writer's Inc.

Wii w/ Wicked in Chicago souvenir program

Wii w/ Final Fantasy VII

Wii w/ Star Spangled Banner - Clarinet

Wii w/ Calvin and Hobbes

Wii w/ 1998 US Mint Proof Set

Wii w/ Blizzard, my White Tiger

Wii w/ Star Fox Bobble Head

Wii w/ Chug

Wii w/ Fender Strat

Wii w/ Game Boy Advance game box

Wii w/ the money I'll use to buy one

Wii w/ Luke's ROTJ lightsaber

Wii w/ Power Rangers (original) lunchbox

Wii w/ Bacon, Pizza, & Gummy Bear

Wii w/ Pokeball & Charizard

Wii w/ Selmer Reed Case, 4 Gonzalez Clarinet Reeds, & 6 Vandoren Clarinet Reeds

Wii w/ Ringo & the Yellow Submarine

Me holding my Wii

Wii w/ Upright Piano pedals

Wii w/ Beatles - Complete Scores

Wii w/ basketball

Wii w/ macaroni & cheese

Wii w/ Schroeder

Wii w/ the Golden Gate Bridge

Wii w/ Blue

Wii w/ Distilled Water

Wii w/ Lemmings Floppy Disk

Wii w/ Bill Nye book

Wii w/ Guitar tab book

Wii w/ Toilet Paper

Wii w/ Lava lamp that refused to warm up in time

Wii w/ Jabba

Wii w/ my bed

Wii w/ a stove

Wii w/ a refrigerator

Wii w/ high school John Philip Sousa award

Wii w/ VHS video case

Wii w/ my alto sax

Wii w/ a dreamcatcher

Wii w/ my high school NHS honor cords

Wii w/ my clarinet section leader binder

Wii w/ my ticket to a local drum corps show (headlined by The Cavaliers)

Wii w/ CD half-inserted

Wii w/ DS Lite

Wii w/ Chicago Bulls championship locker room hats

Wii w/ Master Locks

Wii w/ Graduation presents for my friends (all girls, obsessed with my copies)

Wii w/ 27" TV

Wii w/ a $40 star chart

Wii w/ 2 year old college applications

Wii w/ geode

Wii w/ laptop 1

Wii w/ laptop 2

Wii w/ USB plug

Wii w/ Wii

White Wii, Black Wii, $2 Bill

Front of dollar bill with front of Wii

Wii w/ CD on top

Wii in the Toilet

Ebony and Ivory

Wii w/ Telescope

Wii w/ my half-stack

Wii w/ DDR Dance Pad

Wii w/ Millenium Falcon

Wii on Top of the World

Wii w/ Bike

Wii's Dark Side

Wii w/ Wavebird receiver AND normal GC controller plugged in

'nother cool Black Wii, White Wii, DS Lite pic

Wiimote coming to life, 2, 3

Wiimote and DS Lite:

GC cables plugged into Wii

Wii, Wiimote w/ Piano (Wii spands a minor 10th, the Wiimote a major 7th)

Wii, Wiimote w/ paperback Tess of the d'Urbervilles (I couldn't find my copy of Catcher in the Rye...)

Wii, Wiimote, GC power brick, GC A/V cable, and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

N64, GC, Wii controllers, 2

Wiimote w/ GC Wavebird

Wiimote w/ N64 Controller

Wiimote w/ NES Controller, 2, 3

Wiimote w/ Atari 2600 Controller, 2

Wiimote w/ Game Boy

Wiimote w/ Pikachu Edition Game Boy Color

Wiimote w/ Game Boy Advance

Wiimote w/ Nintendo DS

Wiimote w/ Nintendo DS lite

Tags: Comparisons, Metrics, Size, Wiimote

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(Page 1) Reader Comments

Bobill: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:31AM

Thats alot of Wii lol...Man and I thought that bathtub was as big as a Nintendo can get...bad damn!

Ruari: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:35AM

What I want to know is, does the BLACK Wii's plastic show up scratches, even those tiny buff scratches (which black iPod was notorious for) that you get from wiping with a cloth. I really think the black one is more sexy, but if it shows up buff scratches, even the tiny ones, then I'll have to get a white.

Felix Andrews: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:36AM

Dear Lord. This man is obsessed with his Wii.

J B Cougar: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:41AM

Someone has just a Wii bit too much time on their hands. Were those hyperlinks manually inserted by Joystiq's fine staff? If so, take an early lunch.

Aaron: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:41AM

Wow, so that's what people without girlfriends do. No seriously it is kinda neat to see a well done mock-up size comparison. Ever since they ipod people seem to care about the size/looks of hardware waaaaay more than necessary.

Clint: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:44AM

WiiStiq used to be Joystiq!

C. Grant: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:47AM

J B Cougar: sure were. I think I may do just that! ;)

.ed: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:47AM

hahahahhahahahahaha awesome.

MegaMatt: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:51AM

I'm a huge fan of Wii...but if I had a choice between a Wii and that Bill Nye "The Science Guy" Book...well I might just have to flip a coin.

32_Footsteps: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:58AM

Okay, the one next to a Game Gear is more than a little amusing.

x876543: Jun 23rd 2006; 11:02AM

OMG, they didn't take a picture of it next to a stack of 3 DVD cases?

TexasTHL: Jun 23rd 2006; 11:04AM

I'm impressed. Truly, an inspired documentation of the soon-to-be released console's proportions. It's interesting to see it next to some of your more common household items (TV, DS Lite, Chicago Bulls championship locker room hat).

The most suprising aspect was that his bedsheets didn't feature ALF. I'm afraid what an online pictorial catalog of all of my worldly posessions would say about me.

C. Grant: Jun 23rd 2006; 11:17AM

x876543: actually he did, must have just missed those ones. They were in the beginning.

Neko Tsukimi: Jun 23rd 2006; 11:20AM

... Holy crackers...

southerner: Jun 23rd 2006; 11:24AM

whats a pop bottle?

Marc: Jun 23rd 2006; 11:43AM

That's too much Wii for me. But that's a good mock up. I thought it was real for a second.

shaoron: Jun 23rd 2006; 11:44AM

the geek in him is strong...

32_Footsteps: Jun 23rd 2006; 11:56AM

"whats a pop bottle?"

It's one of the regional terms for what's usually called "soda" or "soda pop". I know western Pennsylvania tends to use "pop," and I know Chris Grant's from Pennsylvania, so I guess we have a clue as to where he grew up.

The real test, though, would be to find out what he calls a long sandwich with multiple meats and cheese, particularly made at Italian delis. Does he prefer to say hoagie, sub, grinder, po' boy, hero, or something else?

J Ron: Jun 23rd 2006; 12:02PM

Pop is what stupid people in stupid regions call Soda.

martin: Jun 23rd 2006; 12:13PM

18. No, Coke is what stupid people in stupid regions call soda. Trust me, I got made fun of all the time in Mississippi when I had to live there because I called it soda, and they said it should be called Coke. Even Pepsi they called Coke.

C. Grant: Jun 23rd 2006; 12:23PM

Haha 32: would that it were. I just assembled his prewritten descriptions with his text-links and voila!

In Philly (and NJ where I grew up) it's most definitely soda. Although you nailed the second part ... is it hoagie or sub ... maybe even grinder. I grew up sub and have slowly gone over to the hoagie camp. Philly is *serious* about their hoagies.

I refuse to say "jimmies" though ... they're SPRINKLES!

neale: Jun 23rd 2006; 12:25PM

here in the uk its called juice. fizzy juice. your all wrong, your all weird. end of

Ross Miller: Jun 23rd 2006; 12:38PM

neale: "end of ... " ? don't leave me hanging, padre

Jon: Jun 23rd 2006; 12:40PM

Im impressed he won the John Philip Sousa award. I never thought I would run into another Sousa winner here on Joystiq. Figured I was the only one :)

Rodents: Jun 23rd 2006; 12:53PM

i'm more impressed that if you look hard for one of the pictures, it's an empty box :-P

Scott: Jun 23rd 2006; 12:57PM

Your all wierd, why not call things by there names. In australia we call Pepsi: 'Pepsi', Coke is called: 'Coke', Fanta is called: 'Fanta'...is it really so hard. If we generalise exactly wot type of drink they are, it's called softdrink, the ones you mix with water is cordial. I think americans call it coolaye or something....pfft.

Scott: Jun 23rd 2006; 12:58PM

Cool, as per usual i get the -1 stars again. It must be automated for me, cause it is always there :(

32_Footsteps: Jun 23rd 2006; 12:59PM

Oh, so you were just lazy and copied "pop". That makes sense.

Though I can tell you're from North Jersey. If you were from South Jersey, like me, you'd have been calling them hoagies your whole life. Oh, how many times did I get a hoagie from Wawa...

And I've always called them jimmies. Nothing was as good at starting an argument in college as the "jimmies vs. sprinkles" debate.

C. Grant: Jun 23rd 2006; 1:06PM

Haha, 32, thrall me with your acumen!

N. Jersey indeed (en garde!). I've capitulated to S. Jersey/Philadelphia's hoagie demands but I'll never give you Jimmies! NEVER!

Go down the shore and every ice cream shack wants me to call them jimmies ... fascists.

Markham: Jun 23rd 2006; 1:25PM

Hey 23, I've got one too. :D

I wonder if it's a bad thing that if I had a mockup of a Wii I could replicate most of the pictures he took... and include one comparing it to a 5.25" floppy

cap-n-crunch: Jun 23rd 2006; 1:37PM

I want to see one beside my 360 on my cabinet November.

devi8i: Jun 23rd 2006; 1:39PM

#19

I really am offended by your comments of stupid regions and Mississippi......I call all carbonated, sugar drinks "soda" when referring to them generically, and by their product name when referring to them directly.

Regardless of where we live; however, I am pretty certain that GFY still means the same thing...

DocCRP: Jun 23rd 2006; 1:51PM

Those are my models. They really don't take long to make, maybe 3 hours tops. I made the first one just for my own comparison purposes, and the other, more detailed ones were made with the intention of selling them.

As for all the talk about location, I'm a now-sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Music Education, and grew up in the SW suburbs of Chicago, right around the Orland Park area.

Drew: Jun 23rd 2006; 2:02PM

Pop / Subs in Michigan

neonez: Jun 23rd 2006; 2:38PM

can anyone say "off topic"? or is that said differently somewhere else too

Jay: Jun 23rd 2006; 2:43PM

Wii + Saxophone + Wicked = Whoever you are, You're my new best friend.

marsel: Jun 23rd 2006; 2:59PM

25. Your all wierd, why not call things by there names. In australia we call Pepsi: 'Pepsi', Coke is called: 'Coke', Fanta is called: 'Fanta'...is it really so hard. If we generalise exactly wot type of drink they are, it's called softdrink, the ones you mix with water is cordial. I think americans call it coolaye or something....pfft.

its koolaid. hahaha you crazy aussies and your socceroos. hey you did better than our stinkin team.

SushiShowers: Jun 23rd 2006; 3:30PM

All that, and no pic of it beside the PS2 Slim?

32_Footsteps: Jun 23rd 2006; 3:33PM

Because as we all know, Joystiq comment threads are known for their slavish devotion to the topic at hand.

Really, we've already had plenty of posts doing the Wii size comparison. So we found something else to talk about as a tangent. It's not like it'll hurt the Internet or anything.

Matters: Jun 23rd 2006; 4:05PM

# 19. martin - Only a moron would say something like that. You're going to call an entire state stupid because you don't agree with what they call something? That would almost be insulting if it wasn't coming from a know-nothing like you. A lot of us call it Coke here in Texas also, but we mostly drink Dr Pepper (Not the shitty DP they have up north. The real stuff) so I guess that makes us stupid.

I can probably point out 20 or 30 things you call by a brand name when you shouldn't. Does that make you stupid too? Do you say Q-Tip? Zip-Lock Bag? Well you're stupid then.

See how that works?

Marc: Jun 23rd 2006; 4:23PM

In New York we call soda what it is. Wether it be Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, etc, we call it by it's trademarked name.

Oddly enough we call long sandwiches Heroes or subs.

Marc: Jun 23rd 2006; 4:29PM

Scott, it's Kool-Aid.

crono141: Jun 23rd 2006; 4:32PM

#31 devi8i

GFY?

Good fun Yummies?

Got food yet?

Good for you?

I guess it doesn't mean the same thing for everybody...

Lighten up, nobody was insulting anybody with any seriousness.

Sam: Jun 23rd 2006; 5:12PM

I want that mock-up so bad. It could possibly quell some of my antsyness before launch... plus, it would make for a fine joke to play on you friends. Set that thing on a shelf next to your Xbox and hear people ask how you got an early copy.

shidoshi: Jun 23rd 2006; 5:41PM

I'm from Omaha, NE, and we say "pop" here.

Another one is "sack" and "bag." Go into a store, buy something, and say "can I hav a sack for that?" I lived in California for a few years, and every time I'd ask for a sack, they'd just look at my funny until I remembered to ask for a bag.

DocCRP: Jun 23rd 2006; 10:32PM

Oooooh. I just figured out how comments work here lol

Well, again, those are my models. They really don't take long to make, maybe 3 hours tops. I made the first one just for my own comparison purposes, and the other, more detailed ones were made with the intention of selling them.

As for all the talk about location, I'm a now-sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Music Education, and grew up in the SW suburbs of Chicago, right around the Orland Park area.

n8dogg: Jun 23rd 2006; 11:01PM

Sweet, I have a John Phillip Souza award as well! It's displayed proudly in front of my "Winnie the Pooh playing a sax" doll.

GO BAND NERDS!!!

supremespleen: Jun 24th 2006; 12:32AM

Hey, I know this guy in real life.
Nice to see him hitting it big on the net.

Jedi Master: Jun 24th 2006; 1:55AM

"(Not the shitty DP they have up north. The real stuff)"

Are you talking about Mr Pib, kind sir? Because they are two totaly different drinks, and I'm pretty sure Pib ain't sold anywhere north of the mason-dixie. Sorry chap, but both are equally good drinks. Now... if your talking about moxie? yeah we got that up north... nasty shizzasty that crapola is...

yes, i just called it nasty shizzasty crapola. get over it.

Supr Mushy: Jun 24th 2006; 10:15AM

how on earth did he make such an neat and plastic wii mockup. the wiimote is also unbelieveably realistic. whith al its buttons that aren't flat etc... can somebodu tell me where he got the materials for his mockup?

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