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Real stars in Wii Forecast Channel

by rawmeatcowboy
21 December 2006
GN 1.0 / 2.0

Caught this story a few days ago, but I was holding off for the weekend. Seeing that the news drought is in full force today, thought I would post it up.

Looks like Nintendo put some nice little touches in the Forecast Channel that you might not have realized. I know I didn’t, but I am not very perceptive! Those stars floating around in the background of the screen while your spinning the globe…those are modeled after real constellations! An excerpt from Josef Faulkner, the guy who originally posted on this finding.

When I saw videos of the Wii Forecast Channel, I noticed the stars in the background were not really random, but seemed to resemble the rough pattern I’d expect to see in the actual sky, given dark enough viewing conditions. I couldn’t confirm this until I got home and updated the channel to look around for myself.

wii forecast globe orion

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