Wii Phone

Posted in Nintendo, Wii by Darrin Olson on February 7th, 2007

Wii Phone A Wii Phone from Nintendo? C’mon; this seems a little far fetched, or is it? Recently we’ve seen the iPhone, rumors of a Zune Phone and now this.

According to T3 there is a distinct possibility that Nintendo may be coming out with some type of phone combined with the console remote. There had been some rumors last year about adding a microphone to the controller, and Nintendo has been taking advantage of internet based services with the Wii console, lately. This combination could possibly lend itself nicely to some type of VoIP service.

T3 found this information via the patent office showing plans of a Wii remote looking device with gaming keys and what looks like a dialing keypad. I wonder what kind of damage someone could do with this? We’ll keep watching…

Image Source: T3



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25 Responses to “Wii Phone”

  1. Noone Says:

    so… where’s the mouthpiece?

  2. Miles Says:

    kool idea. needs work and slimming down. maybe someday. i like it, being a nintendo fan myself lol, but like b4, just needs slimming down.

  3. Anonymous Says:

    looks really nice

  4. Deo Says:

    Photoshop?

    I actually happened to be scrolling through Nintendo patents on Google Patents and saw some phone stuff… didn’t pay much notice. I think it might be a bit lame myself. Honestly, a nintendo phone?

  5. Deo Says:

    On second thought, couldn’t they just use already existing hardware? It seems to me that the DS could make a fine VoIP phone, given the WiFi, microphone and speakers.. not to mention putting a keypad on the touch screen (I’m only speculating, as I’ve never used a VoIP phone…). Seems like a more economical solution, at least for those of us with DS’s. Just buy a cart for the software and talk away…

  6. saher Says:

    See thats where most brands go wrong, you simply can not expect an expert doctor to cook an amazing curry :) u know what i mean

  7. canner Says:

    if the numbers came out from the back like i slider phone it would be really nice
    or jsut pu the numbers on the back other wise its too long

  8. robin Says:

    so fake, but i’de love it, i’de buy it but thats crazy old me!hmm what could it be called? wiiring? wiicall? wiiphone sounds too boring for nintendo, wiimobile/wiicell lol wiicell many products

  9. Lil Griff Says:

    Sum 1 Photoshopped the hell outta a pic of a wii controller…nice try bu8t i did actually see sumthing about a nintendo phone in Game informer…maybe its true….

  10. Sim Says:

    That photoshopped controller isn’t far off actually, remove the LEDs and the - + and home buttons. add one big button in place of those, and a mouthpiece instead of the LEDs and that’s about what Nintendo have drawn. From what I can see I would guess this is probably just another one of the ideas Nintendo is exploring. It could possibly be that they will release it as a handheld games console/ mobile phone. There is definitely a registered patent with Satoru Okada (general manager of Nintendo Research & Engineering, the division designing and developing Nintendo handheld game consoles) as one of the inventors.

  11. superluigi Says:

    WOW!!! OMG!!! A wii PhOnE!!! IWANT THAT IWANT THAT PLEASE GIVE ME MORE INFO

  12. Anonymous Says:

    OMG WII PHONE

  13. Anonymous Says:

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  14. Steve Kunkel Says:

    dumbest thing ive ever seen, congratulations nintendo, you suck

  15. Anonymous Says:

    thats hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  16. Some guy that has a poodle Says:

    Wii-phone…….
    and i thought iphone was stupid….. not!

  17. Some guy that has a poodle Says:

    multi player? whats with the player lights? does it have bluetooth? I smell photoshop

  18. Anonymous Says:

    WII PHONE!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    COMPARED TO THIS IPHONE CAN GO SUCK BALLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111
    WELL IM SUCH A NINTENDO FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT MORE INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I DONT CARE IF IT ONLY COMES OUT IN JAPAN I WOULD GO AND GET!!!!!!!!!!! I DONT CARE
    ABOUT DA COST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ILL PAY THOUSANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WONT CARE!!!!!!

  19. Anonymous Says:

    Answering machine:

    It’s a me, Mario!
    So sorry for to not answering your call
    Mario get you next time!

  20. person Says:

    i am a fan of nintendo but if you go far enough to make a phone something is wrong. nintendo a cell phones just don’t go together.

  21. chriiss123 Says:

    the wiiphone sounds really cool, but its shape ans size is just a little bit uncool. the iphone is the bezt thing i have evrn seen, lets see if the wii phone can top that!!!
    i’ma get one when they come out though!

  22. pimptastic Says:

    Wii Phone would be cool, but if thats Mario world, it would also need buttons R and L, so I dont know if its real or not

  23. Anonymous Says:

    Shat thats awsome man i love it and all can it be used as a wii controller hu what um who….. ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  24. Sordon Says:

    DUDE IT HAS THE BUTTON ON THE BCK

  25. Cloud Says:

    I think its just a random image the editor looked for , just to add tot he article. If nintendo is doing this, then it prolly wont look like this. But, who knows?

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