Photos Show Nunchuck And Wiimote Wired Prototypes For GameCube

The Wiimote and Nunchuck are known as controllers for the Wii, but were actually originally intended for the GameCube. It was already known that prototypes of the peripherals exist, but there were no pictures of them. Now there are pictures of the package on an auction site.

GameCube fanatic spmrp shows pictures of the pack on his Twitter page. The package was called ‘Nintendo Revolution’, a name Nintendo later gave to the prototype of the Nintendo Wii. Spmrp had found the photos on a Japanese Yahoo auction website. The package, which includes the ‘Nunchuck’, a sensor bar and the ‘Wiimote’, sold for 74,000 yen. That is converted 581 euros. The new owner has not yet got the prototypes up and running.

In the replies that follow spmrp’s tweet, WayForward developer James Motagna liet see pictures of the Wiimote prototype he made during E3 2006. The ‘Wiimote’ did not yet have a plus and minus button, but a pause button and a back button. In addition, the peripheral is not wireless. The ‘Wiimote’, like the GameCube controller, must be connected to the console. The Wii itself was released in Europe at the end of 2006.

Photo of Nintendo Revolution pack from the auction site