Nintendo Wii

[Fuddle]

japanese machine pre-ordered at play asia

[Dezm0nd]

http://gonintendo.com/

[reektan]

Just had press release through from NOA confirming :

NINTENDO ANNOUNCE LAUNCH DATE AND PRICE FOR JAPAN AND THE AMERICAS



Dear all,

NINTENDO ANNOUNCE LAUNCH DATE AND PRICE FOR JAPAN AND THE AMERICAS

- Affordable System for Gamers, Newcomers and Families -

14th September 2006 - Nintendo will reshape the home entertainment and video game landscape with the launch of its heralded Wii? home video game console. Wii will go on sale in the Americas on November 19th and Japan on December 2nd - European launch date, price and software line up will be announced at a press conference in London tomorrow (Friday 15th).

Wii will be sold as an affordable, mass-consumer product at an MSRP in the US of just $249.99. The price includes one wireless Wii Remote controller, one Nunchuk? controller and the groundbreaking collection of five different Wii Sports games on one disc, which anyone can play using simple physical movements, experienced or not.

[Bleeders]

http://gonintendojustincase.blogspot.com/

[Lyris]

http://us.gamespot.com/events/wiilaunch/live.html

Be there at 9am PDT (Is that 5pm UK?)

[Pavey]

?249 works out at ?144,including sales tax. (8.25%)

Not too bad.

[dlittley]

They're not usually a straight conversion tho are they? They usually whack on ?50 for us. :/

[reektan]

we rarely pay the exact conversion... add on another 30/40 quid and it'll be about right.

?249 works out at ?144,including sales tax. (8.25%)

Not too bad.

[Garny]

I reckon its going to be ?159.99 over here at least.

[reektan]

http://www.kotaku.com/

has a liveblog going

[Crimson Day]

cheers for link mate

[Oh! My Car!]

has anyone posted this yet? Wii launch trailer with new footage of games ^_^ ...

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/wii_preview/movie/lineup.html

[Bleeders]

So far...

• November 19th Wii on sale in US
• 25,000 points of distribution
• $249.99 - White only at launch
• 4 million units worldwide (US seeing biggest shipment)
• Cables, sensor bar, one Wii remote, one nunchuck controller - all in box
• Wii Boxing, Wii Bowling, Golf, Baseball, and Tennis all on one - Wii Sports packed into Wii box - First console pack in since the NES
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess & Excite Truck on launch day
• Activisions launch titles as seen on IGN; Trauma Center, Madden 07 NFS: Carbon, Elebits, Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz, Metal Slug Anthology, RRR, Red Steel... more on that list as well.
• 30 Wii games in launch window (2006) about half on launch day - remain consistent with Cube software pricing
• Wii Channels Menu - News channel shown, as well as weather, shop, photo, and others. 1 page of 12 Wii channels, expandable as well. Disc channel allows players to play Wii game or Game Cube games, Wii Shop is the Virtual Console home, The legend of zelda, Super Mario World, Super Mario 64 and Donkey Kong available for VC launch day. 10 games per month, 5 bucks for NES, 8 for SNES, and 10 for N64. Wii Points acquired online or at retaliers. 2000 Wii points card for 20 bucks at retail. Games story internally and becomes its own channel. Title is available forever once downloaded
• Mii channel shown - create character profiles. Bill Trinen is creating Samuel L Jackson. Mii characters can be transferred to Wiimote so you can take them with you. Wii games can use character profiles, such as Wii Sports.

[dvdmike]

Sunday ? weird It has to be under ?199 in the UK Every pound over ?150 will hurt its chances

[Garny]

So the Wii remote and nunchuck controller are seprate if you want to buy an extra one?