Alternate history: Nintendo makes the Wii a generation earlier

[EricHiggin]

Pemalite said:

Considering Nintendo prototyped Wii Motion controls on Gamecube to start with...
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/japanese-auction-reveals-nintendos-first-wii-remote-for-the-gamecube/

And considering the Wii basicaly had the same internals as the Gamecube anyway... With some enhancements...
https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/wii/

And considering some Gamecube games have been "broken down" and discovered to have been tested with "motion controls" on the Gamecube like the prototype of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption included debug options that featured motion control functionality

The issue isn't so much a question of "Can the Wii release a generation earlier" - It literally could have from a hardware perspective.
The issue was software, it just wasn't ready.

Nintendo could have release motion controls as a literal accessory of the Gamecube.

Just as long as the GCN controller still becomes a thing. Whether it's the launch controller or an accessory to the 'Cube-mote', a world without the GCN controller isn't a universe I'd wanna be part of.

Can this alternate universe also have the prototype GCN controller end up the final model? I always thought it looked better. Button color could be the same as the actual launch controller, either color scheme works.