Nintendo to face off with the Xbox 360 Elite with their ‘Wiivolution’?

Sacre bleu! Could it be true? Nintendo is facing off the competition with a new version for the Wii, allegedly named ‘Wiivolution’. This was the buzz from Game-X-ray, and reported by French site Game Focus.

According to the unnamed source, this would be in direct response to Microsoft‘s announcement of the much hyped Xbox 360 Elite. Hmm… we never really thought Nintendo would be coming after Microsoft. Curiously enough, the Wiivolution will sport a black casing as well, and would house a hard disk of 160 GB. Compare it to the Elite and that would mean 40 GB more than Microsoft’s. Dreamy, eh?

But that’s not all! There would also be an HDMI port as well as a DVD player with 1080i upscaling enabled. But what would actually be the revolutionary part in the Wiivolution is the Wiimote for — get a load of this — the feet! Yep, the good ol’ Wiimote crushed under your soles or on your ankles.

This is all but a rumor (Note: we’re leaning towards April Fool’s Joke here, folks) for now. Nintendo has not said anything about this secret Wii HD, nor can we say that the anonymous source from where this originally grew is entirely reliable. But just the same, it can’t be too bad imagining the possibility of such a console to exist, right? At least for laughs.

Sacre bleu! Could it be true? Nintendo is facing off the competition with a new version for the Wii, allegedly named ‘Wiivolution’. This was the buzz from Game-X-ray, and reported by French site Game Focus.

According to the unnamed source, this would be in direct response to Microsoft‘s announcement of the much hyped Xbox 360 Elite. Hmm… we never really thought Nintendo would be coming after Microsoft. Curiously enough, the Wiivolution will sport a black casing as well, and would house a hard disk of 160 GB. Compare it to the Elite and that would mean 40 GB more than Microsoft’s. Dreamy, eh?

But that’s not all! There would also be an HDMI port as well as a DVD player with 1080i upscaling enabled. But what would actually be the revolutionary part in the Wiivolution is the Wiimote for — get a load of this — the feet! Yep, the good ol’ Wiimote crushed under your soles or on your ankles.

This is all but a rumor (Note: we’re leaning towards April Fool’s Joke here, folks) for now. Nintendo has not said anything about this secret Wii HD, nor can we say that the anonymous source from where this originally grew is entirely reliable. But just the same, it can’t be too bad imagining the possibility of such a console to exist, right? At least for laughs.