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Soundwave on 21 September 2012

 

Kinda noticed this, on the right side of the Wii U there appears to be a slot/port towards the bottom left end:

It's visible for a split second in the Kotaku hands on video too at 40 seconds in:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo15iruRD9I

Very reminscent of the GameCube Expansion Ports on the bottom right side of that machine:

 

I'm curious if anyone has a better shot of the side or bottom of the Wii U. Perhaps this slot/port does something.



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Viper1 on 21 September 2012

I see a screw so I'm guessing it's not an expansion port.

Maybe that's a demo unit and that can be opened up to attach a corded GamePad.

 

Here's a pic I grabbed from the video.



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Soundwave on 21 September 2012

Another pic, again there it is on the lower left side of the console. Appears to be a small indent/(screw?) and it appears to extend to the bottom side of the console, much like the GameCube Expansion Slots:



ghost_of_fazz on 21 September 2012

Hah, nope.

There goes the battery for keeping the date and hour. Just like in the Wii.



DieAppleDie on 21 September 2012

i dont know
but it looks damn sexy



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Soundwave on 21 September 2012
ghost_of_fazz said:
Hah, nope.

There goes the battery for keeping the date and hour. Just like in the Wii.


The Wii has a battery slot?



thekitchensink on 21 September 2012
Soundwave said:
ghost_of_fazz said:
Hah, nope.

There goes the battery for keeping the date and hour. Just like in the Wii.


The Wii has a battery slot?


Anything with a built-in clock has a battery for it.  Otherwise it wouldn't be able to keep track of the time while the system was turned off.



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Viper1 on 21 September 2012
ghost_of_fazz said:
Hah, nope.

There goes the battery for keeping the date and hour. Just like in the Wii.

You are absolutely correct.

 

I completely forgot they had that and I've taken 2 of them apart a few years ago. 



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Soundwave on 21 September 2012
thekitchensink said:
Soundwave said:
ghost_of_fazz said:
Hah, nope.

There goes the battery for keeping the date and hour. Just like in the Wii.


The Wii has a battery slot?


Anything with a built-in clock has a battery for it.  Otherwise it wouldn't be able to keep track of the time while the system was turned off.

Gotcha. Neat. Do the 360 and PS3 have this too?



UncleScrooge on 21 September 2012

Funny related fact: Nintendo consoles before the Wii used to feature a "High Speed Port" (sounds like a slot for a modem at first but the Gamecube had one as well, in addition to its actual modem slot) - but not one of them actually got an expansion you could put in there. Even the N64 had one (on the bottom side) which was odd considering it also had a memory expansion slot.

I remember discussing the Gamecube port with my friends, we were so damn sure it would be used for a "graphics expansion pack" haha

Anyone in here who knows more about this?

Edit: Apparently the Gamecube slot was used for the Gameboy Player. So I'm talking trash haha (though "Serial Slot 2" was never used I think)

Edit 2: The N64 one was used for the 64DD, while the NES and SNES ones were used for the Satellaviews and possible CD-Rom expansions. You always learn something new! But damn it was way cooler speculating about these mysterious things...

OT: If there's a screw we are not supposed to open it so yeah - no expansion slot for the Wii U.