Rumor: Wiimote retail box unveiled [update 1]

I don't know what they're doing, but the Wii sure seems like the most interesting of the lot.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo!!!!

The box looks very Apple to me.
Clean lines, clear display...
Ooooo...Wiimote!

Looking sleek. Nintendo's new look is amazing. :D

Yeah, it looks like something Apple would put out.

I don't blame you guys, I cover my wii too.

Cheers.

wii
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amazon.ca for pre order and is taking orders !!!!

the price is 334 CAD !!! Price gouging bastards.

Oh a box.

Should I be excited now?

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hmm..seems so..familiar, whatever, i think im gonna go eat an APPLE now, maybe go outside for a run, listen to my IPOD, you know.

i just hope no one refurs to a peice of plastic and it's packaging as being "sexy."

$40 right there

I'm loving the Apple-esque packaging.

Man, look at that sexy packaging. And that wiimote is just BEYOND sexy.

You Just Did.

The lower left is from the Japanese press event last month. They handed it out as souvenirs to the press.

Um, these are just the free non-functional wiimotes that people got at the NYC press event aren't they? I would think that the real ones will be in blister packs.

No more annoying blister packaging?

sex up your life with super sexy nintendo packaging.

in all honesty the japs have no flare with designing a little machine when their biggest and it seems only inspiration is an american corporation
contrast that with the flare of their games compared to the dulllll american efforts and you have a company, a jap company, trying to appeal to american lard, which is their sole marketing aim.

Someone please explain to me how this looks like Apple's packaging. It looks more like a box that you put a watch, necklace, or fancy pen in. Apple boxes actually look cool and have a more expensive material

looks smexy

Too bad the wiimotes are 60 bucks :(

Its soo pretty.

To my untrained eye, anything thats super white and comes in a black box looks apple. Wii is pretty exciting. But which way do i go.. psWii or xboxWii60. Infact who am i kidding i can only afford one. Its gonna be straight replacment for my broken 360 with another 360.
...Being a brit, im not intrested in a company that thinks europe is not worth launching a product in.
...Paid stupid money for a massive HDTV, and want to be able to play HD content on it. (sorry wii maybe next year)
...I therefore want to be able to watch HD-DVD's vs Blue Ray because as it stands HD-DVD are getting the better reports and greater title numbers.
...And finally XboxLive is just getting better and better, XBLA is throwing out some pretty good titles.

And after all that, this is not the right comments to of said all this. Still looking forward to going round a friends to play the wii though.
Anyone for tennis?

Nintendo has ripped on Apple so much recently that I'm suprised they havent been sued by Apple's design firm. I really dont cared but I must admit that it makes their stuff look like bootleg Apple products that you'd find in Hong Kong or something.

to get things started off on the right foot, can we use the correct names of the products in question? ie: NOT calling it the "Wiimote".

It looks so Apple.

I'd spend $40 on that.

Finally; something videogame NOT in blisterpack.

THIS IS NOT THE FINAL PACKAGING. The guy who posted the second picture (in the lower-left corner of the article picture) said in the same post:

"I doubt the controller is going to come in a cardboard box like this. To easy to just open up and steal. Unless they keep them behind the counter/glass like systems and games."

This is just the way the hollow Wiimotes were handed out at the Japan Wii press conference. This is not, I repeat, NOT the retail box for the Wiimote.

Please, Joystiq, next time read the words around the posts, instead of just freaking out as soon as you see a picture of something Wii-related.

I love Apple! I mean.. Nintendo.

What a revelation! You guys must be bored.

Next revelation: Replacement A/C power cord, retail packaging! OMFG!

I love the new look also. Looks clean crisp and professional ;) In my opinion Nintendo is definatly taking a step in the right direction. I also dont mind the price at all. It was once thought to be incredibly cheap which was nice but there is always taht old saying "you get what you pay for". Now its still relitivly cheap but at least its enough so you feel a little better about your purchase ya know.

You have a better name for it, Mr. Pullman? What's wrong with Wiimote?

I hope that's the genuine packaging, because hot DAMN it is sexy. Everything about this console is sexy. We've still got what, six weeks? I can't wait.

Very much like Apple...good job Nintendo.


P.S. Please open a Nintendo World store in California.

Considering how fun and revolutionary the controller will be, $60 isnt that big of a deal. 360 controllers are $50 and there is nothing special about those at all.

looks nice. WII60 bishes!

I would just like to point out that the wiimote is NOT $60. It is 40. 10 dollars cheaper than the xbox controller. The add ons are 20 bucks, which makes the wiimote + add on 10 dollars more expensive than the 360 controller.

the designer for the wii is the same designer for the apple, jackass.

I know this isn't the final packaging of the controler itself, but I just want to give a little critique, anyway.

Hmm... Sleek, simple, smooth, I like it. It looks like something more designer-ish than what I've come to expect from most game companies, which is nice and pleasing to the eye. And simply putting just the name of the console on the side evokes a certain level of class one would find on a, in a way, "upper-class" product, such as a watch, jewlery, over-priced pens, etc. It's also consistent with the packaging of the console itself, trying to bring more attention to the product and not the company behind it, which, to me, sounds like a way to lure in irate gamers/fanboys of rival companies by saying, "Just forget, for a moment, that Nintendo is making this. Just clear any preconceptions and think if the name attached to this bad boy makes any difference in the world. Just try it out, maybe you'll like it." which could equate into a very smart business choice. Also, the choice of a cardboard box is a heck of a lot better than the infuriating packaging for the Gamecube's stuff, which I swear is impossible to open with your bare hands. The small box design also makes it much more stackable and easier to display and have more on a single shelf then the humongous blister packaging.

However, it might need more information for the casual gamer that they're trying to lure in, such as what it is, what it's capable of, and maybe, just maybe, a little "suggestion" along the lines of "Oh, hey, you might need the Nunchuck accessory, hint hint." Also, it's gonna need a plastic case on the opening to protect from thieves and other scoundrels. And, Nintendo, since this looks like some pretty cheap-to-produce packaging material, is it possible you guys could lower the price of the controller by, say, $5 or $10? Just asking is all.

If I was to ever have sex with a robot, I hope it's extremities would look like the Wiimote

We have to start a petition for N to finally reveal the Wii keyboard or tell us that we can use USB keyboards. Wiimote box - not that crucial.

@ 37. JimJimBinks

Ok your statement is pretty disturbing. Why in the earth you would be thinking in the possibility to have sex with a Robot?

"What a revelation! You guys must be bored.

Next revelation: Replacement A/C power cord, retail packaging! OMFG!"

Darryl, your flames just get lamer and lamer.

Now your controller comes damaged and scratched with Nintendos new Wii packaging. Spending $40 never felt like such a waste.

darryl must be bored enough to poke his head in here and cough up some 10 year old remark (which is pretty impressive for an 8 year old)

the "B" in B33 stands for bitter.

@38 Ever since I was a kid, and Topps released the C-3PO with giant erection trading card. (Look for it on snopes.com... if you dare!)

This is obviously not the retail packaging because extra Wiimotes come with a built-in game: Wii Play. Kinda hard to include a DVD disc in such a small package.

@44. "This is obviously not the retail packaging because extra Wiimotes come with a built-in game: Wii Play. Kinda hard to include a DVD disc in such a small package."
Posted at 4:18PM on Oct 1st 2006 by funkonaut

You're a little confused. Wii Play comes with a Wiimote, not the other way around. Otherwise, anybody who wanted three extra controllers would be stuck with three copies of the same game.

Sorry but that IS a photoshoped iPod accessory box. My iPod remote comes in that exact same packaging.

Silly Nintendo fanboys.

Wow! Look at that! It is a way overpriced TV remote! Let the ridiculous arm-waving begin!