Linked by David Adams on Sat 8th Mar 2008 00:23 UTC, submitted by tbutler
Comparisons between iPhone and the Wii have already been fairly abundant simply because the two have arguably garnered the top spots in"electronic gadget mindshare" for at least a year each. But looking at the demos today, OFB's Timothy R. Butler thinks perhaps the iPhone could be on its way to being the Wii of portable devices-- literally.
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Um, what's your point? But since you asked. Yes you can browse the web. Yes you can Sync it with your PC/Mac (sorta, you can create a Mii from your computer and export). No you can't call your friends but you can communicate with them through the Mii community.
The suggestion here is that the iPhone is like a portable Wii not that the Wii isn't as good as an iPhone because it's not portable or doesn't do this or that.
The point here is the iPhone/iTouch has a vast amount of possibilities for some innovating gaming based on motion just like the Wii.
Tethered. Um, what do you expect from a consoles controller? Portable? Not really the point of the Wii. Though the Wii Mote is quite portable and you can take your Mote and move from Wii to Wii with your Mii and play as you. Or did you mean portable gaming? Um DS. Different product.
On the other hand, if the SDK allowed access to the Bluetooth capabilities of the iPhone, it might be possible to program it to talk to the Wii Mote. That might be interesting.