Wii’s design is so inspiring, it’s ironic
01/08/2008
Jrnl/Design
When Nintendo originally started work on the Wii, their intention was to make it fit in more with your home stereo setup than consoles preceding it. There’s actually a fascinating discussion about this on a page where Nintendo’s CEO looks back on the Wii project with the designers.
That’s why there’s something ironic about the 4Gamers 2.1 Speaker system for Wii: They’re a pair of speakers that look like nunchuck controllers, and a subwoofer that looks like a Wii—tilting stand and all.
In America, Wii looks like stereo components, but in Soviet Russia, stereo components look like Wii.