Wii Release Date, Price and more

[Gobo]

Nintendo Wii Release:

Americas (both): November 19th
Japan: December 2
EU: December 8
Retail Price: 249.99
Comes with Wii, Stand, Sensor Bar, all needed cords, Wii-mote, Nunchuku and even batteries. Wii Sports included in American release, not in Japanese.
Wii-Mote: 39.99
Nunchucku: 19.99
Retro/classic: 19.99
First Party Games: 49.99
Third Party: Suggested 49.99, up to 3rd party
Virtual Console games: ~5(NES), ~8(SNES), ~10(N64). No price on Gensis games.

Tons of Online stuff including internet, weather, a digital photo channel, news updates. Something called "Mii Channel" as well with custimizable avatars.

No DVD playout (pricing and reduncancy), however the Wii is region-free. (this is up for debate, NoA has said it is, NoE has said it isnt.) All Nintendo games will be region-free with 3rd parties having the ability to lock regions if they desire.

About 15 launch titles+20 VC titles. Metriod 3 has been delayed until Early '07. Zelda is ready for launch. 30 Wii titles and 30 VC titles by '07.

~4 mil units by the end of the year, with North America getting the majority.

oh yeah, White is the only color.
wii.ign.com

[Jei]

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finally!

so Zelda is coming out at release date?????? AWESOME.

[Icemage]

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Sweet! *adds to his personal X-mas list of things to get himself while buying stuff for everyone else*


Icemage

[Lambeaus]

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Oh boy. I was thinking as getting it as my secondary system, but at $250? No thanks. I know it is going to kill me to not play Zelda when it is released, but I'll just have to live with it. All the other games seem too gimmickey with the WiiMote, and I'm just not willing to put down another two fifty down. I'll just wait for a price drop, and put my hard earned cash to an upgraded HT Sound System instead.

[Lambeaus]

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finally!

so Zelda is coming out at release date?????? AWESOME.

9:33 EST: Reggie takes stage again. Says Wii Tennis Wii Golf, Wii Baseball, Wii Bowling and Wii Boxing are all included in the Wii Sports disc. Calls it a five-game compilation. "This is designed to get everyone involved playing." Game will be packed with Wii. Everyone'll get it when they buy the system.

"We'll also offer consumers the widest range of launch titles ever in the history of videogames. The list is big and -- as you'll see -- it's new and nostalgic. Unique. Delivering a brand new type of entertainment."

Talks about The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Says they'll have Excite Truck ready for Wii launch.

"With Wii sports, these titles represent a fantastic trio..."

"First time we have a Zelda title available on launch day. It gives us a huge boost and huge momentum right out of the box. It's a masterpiece game. We will continue to make those big masterpiece titles for the core gamer, as well as new games to drive market expansion."

"If you were to play Zelda all day to day for six hours, you'd only be scratching the surface..."
http://wii.ign.com/articles/732/732707p1.html

[Gobo]

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http://wii.com/

has info (and Videos!) about the extra stuffs, plus Hardware stuffs, game info and what-not.

More info about Metriod 3: New control scheme added to make it so it plays much more like an FPS with very fluid motion. Reportedly a lagre improvment over the E3 demo.

Also, like the DS, Nintendo Wii Wifi is free.

[Raydeus]

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Backwards compatibility with the Game Cube is a massive plus for this console, just replaying the Resident Evil's for the GC would make it worth it.


And now I can't believe I'm actually considering buying it while I get a PS3...in a year or so depending on how good Sony gets with production times.

Edit> Never mind hopefully I was wrong and games for the PS3 will be region free, phew.

Edit2> But aparently the region code from PS and PS2 games will remain so forget about buying japanese PS2 games ; ;

[Bakira]

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I'll possibly be getting the Wii sometime early next year depending on it's game line-up and how well the reviews are for it. I'm still a little apprehensive about the Wii-mote though. I doubt I'll like it. Hopefully they'll release Mario game I'll actually play because something about Mario Sunshine made me not want to play it. Come on Nintendo, make a good Mario game like you used to. *hintSMB1&3andMario64hint*

[rant] Yesterday, I heard about Nintendo releasing Twilight Princess on the Wii before the GC. I can't explain how pissed off I was because I know that this is just a gimmick by Nintendo to sell more of it's new system since some people will be too impatient to wait for the GC version of TP. I'll be waiting for my GC version since I've been waiting on it for nearly 2 years and it's what I reserved it for. It's a GC game plain and simple and it's not a Wii game. [/rant]

[bikkebakke]

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Another huge plus for me is the use of the DS as a wireless controller as well as playing the DS games through the Wii.

[Jei]

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the new mario on DS is pretty good. you tried it?

[kuu]

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Backwards compatibility with the Game Cube is a massive plus for this console, just replaying the Resident Evil's for the GC would make it worth it.
And now I can't believe I'm actually considering buying it while I get a PS3...in a year or so depending on how good Sony gets with production times.
Edit> Never mind hopefully I was wrong and games for the PS3 will be region free, phew.
Edit2> But aparently the region code from PS and PS2 games will remain so forget about buying japanese PS2 games ; ;

PS3 games is sort of region free. It's an optional switch. So it will depend on developers to use it or not.

But it allows say US/NA/EU game all on one blueray disc is so choosed.

I'll have to check out what games Wii has down the line. At this point every game is in "gimick" mode. Swing a sword, shoot a gun, swing, etc.

I play ddr with a pad doesn't mean I would play busido blade with a pad(I tried, and almost broke it, though it was fun for the 1st half hour).

The games down the road will show how much robust-ness the Wii will have.

[Jei]

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From the currently looooong list of games, I looked through and only able to pick a few out that I'm interested to play. I too think there's too little interesting games coming out. But those few are so hard to resist....

Games I REALLY want to play
Zelda
Fire Emblem
Biohazard (resident Evil)
Gundam
Konami's soccer game (new winning eleven? no names decided yet)

Some ok games

Dragon Quest Swords
Super Mario Galaxy
Harvest Moon
Eye seal 21. this is a really fun american football manga.

hmm about 10 out of 100...

[bikkebakke]

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the new mario on DS is pretty good. you tried it?

Yeah, and I love it... it's really fun.

No interest in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption? Other than that, I agree with your list.

[TenchiHawkwing]

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I think I'll actually buy the Gamecube 1.1 since I didn't buy the original Gamecube, there's some games on there that I've been wanting to play (Tales of Symphonia, I mean you.) and some of the Wii titles look promising, and this is just the system launch.

[bikkebakke]

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I think I'll actually buy the Gamecube 1.1 since I didn't buy the original Gamecube, there's some games on there that I've been wanting to play (Tales of Symphonia, I mean you.) and some of the Wii titles look promising, and this is just the system launch.

Do you have a PS2? If so, you know they released Tales of Symphonia for it too, right?