Giant Wii FAQ

It would probably be better if this FAQ appeared on Yahoo or USA Today, everyone who views IGN probably knows all the important facts...

Well, the FAQ was the first place I've seen with the info on how long the sensor bar's cord will be. It's ten feet long, which invalidated my worries about being able to play with my projector.

bah, humbug. I have RSS feeds from Nintendo DS fanboy, Nintendo Wii fanboy, and Go Nintendo on my homepage, I don't need you IGN

Ha! It is not so high-and-mighty as you believe it to be! It says the Wii will launch in Europe on December the 9th, not the 8th! Apart from that, pretty good, and well done to them!

729 MHz IBM PowerPC "Broadway" CPU
243 MHz ATI "Hollywood" GPU
When did Nintendo officially release the information about the speed of the CPU and GPU?

Foppe,

Nintendo hasn't released any specs and they probably never will.

Source: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3145250

IGN is quoting anon developers that leaked the info to them.

Source: http://wii.ign.com/articles/699/699118p1.html

This same info, with a little more detail, was released to MaxConsole a few months later, (even if they claimed it was "exclusive").

Source: http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=8802

Nintendo said they wouldn't release the specs because they didn't matter. That means by comparing sheer numbers, Wii doesn't look comparable. This would have been important before E3 when very little about the console was known. 1 out of 1000 people really understand tech specs. But people can see two numbers and know which is bigger. Nintendo was trying to avoid those direct comparasions.

However, now that we see that games like Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros., Red Steel, etc. look fine, there's really no reason to care about the specs.