Revised Wii to premiere at Westin Hotels

By Spencer . May 1, 2008 . 2:17pm

Revised Wii to premiere at Westin Hotels images Nintendo has always had solid hotel distribution from the multi-cart Famiboxes shown occasionally on GameSniped to pay to play Nintendo 64 games brought to you by Lodgenet. Console collectors get your credit cards ready because Nintendo has a specially designed Wii specifically for hotels.

The hotel friendly Wii will premiere at Westin Hotels as part of the WestinWORKOUT program. Since it’s a console designed with fitness first Wii Sports and Wii Fit are preloaded on the system. That’s right games can run off a disc-less Wii, which probably means it has some kind of mass storage system. Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree and Wii Play are the other announced games. The list of titles can be rotated at will by hotel management. It also sounds like this Wii won’t have the familiar channel menu since Nintendo mentions there is a new game menu to simply operation.

So, a hard drive or network storage system that works with the Wii is coming out for public use…

Images courtesy of Nintendo.

TAGS: Nintendo, Wii

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Rex Dart

Surely you're not saying that those two tech demos couldn't be fit into 512MB, are you?

Spencer

@Rex Dart - The Westin Wii has Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Wii Play and Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree on it. It's more than two full games, which probably means the size of the files have to exceed 512 MB.

Keldryn

It could use something similar to the "red" Revolution test kits used for development/testing. These units lack an optical disc drive, but have an internal hard disk that has eight banks into which disc images are loaded. Switches on the front of the unit change which bank is used to emulate the optical disc.

So it doesn't necessarily mean that there is a mass storage device that will be available to consumers. This hotel setup could just use a variation of the testing/development hardware.