Photos: Nintendo Wii swings into action

Nintendo says its newly named Wii console is about the width of three stacked DVD cases and will play single- or double-layered 120mm optical discs, as well as 80mm Nintendo GameCube discs. The Wii system comes with 512MB of internal flash memory, two USB 2.0 ports and built-in Wi-Fi capability. The console contains wireless Internet connections with IEEE 802.11b/g, or with a USB 2.0 LAN adaptor.

Wii will run on a PowerPC CPU, code-named 'Broadway', that was developed with IBM, and will include an ATI graphics processor. Nintendo did not commit to a launch date or price -- saying that Wii would launch in the fourth quarter of 2006 and its price would be named later.

Credit: GameSpot UK/Nintendo

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