A Wiimote prototype that was sold in a Japanese auction is turning heads — because Nintendo made the device not for the Wii but for its predecessor, the GameCube. The device was sold at Yahoo Auctions ...

The Nintendo Wii’s “Wiimote” and “Nunchuk” were at the heart of the short-lived motion control revolution that we saw last-generation. But, apparently, while Nintendo didn’t debut and take the world ...

Over the weekend, an old Wiimote controller was sold at auction in Japan for 74,000 yen (approximately $660). Why so much? The device wasn’t just any old Wiimote, but one of the prototypes Nintendo ...

In context: The GameCube and Wii are known to share somewhat similar internals. Apparently so much so that the GameCube was used for testing before the Wii console was actually ready. A prototype Wii ...

Travis Verbil is a Staff Writer at DualShockers. Outside of writing, he is a musician from Queens, NY. He enjoys the New York Mets, tabletop gaming, and Donkey Kong lore. As you can imagine, over time ...

So much has been said and written about Nintendo’s Wiimote control scheme. In fact, you can pretty much pin the entire strategy of the Wii on this new method of playing games, since Nintendo’s said ...

Oh, this is just a pain in the butt. At first everyone was worried about Twilight Princess moving onto the Wii and leaving GameCube players behind, and then it was a matter of whether it was going to ...