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"Wii Price and Launch Details"

Right. An 'interesting' conference in London has eventually produced the price and date for the Wii European Launch.

Gaby Logan and a host of other people showed off the Wii details and waxed lyrical about how the DS has been a major success. Interestingly, the Wii will actually be sold for a profit (unusual for a console, money is usually made on the software and not the hardware).

As well as the Mii software, that lets you create Avatars to represent you online and the cool Mii room that you can put them in, there's the weather and news channels built in. It's all looking quite cool and well thought out. There will be 15 Virtual Console games at launch, with around 10 more per month released (which puts the Live Arcade on the 360 to shame) and you get the Opera Internet Browser as well.

http://www.wii.com/ should be updated with the European information soon too and screenshots/video of the Wii screens.

So, here are the most important details from Nintendo:
The Date:December 8th 2006
The Price:£179
The Package:white console, one Wii remote, one Nunchuck, Wii Sports

Kawada wrote:
> Something
> for Hedfix
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> Nothing on there jumping out at me to make me budge from my
> stance of non-interest, maybe there is for you

Aye, I've still to play the Gamecube predecessors of most of those.

24. I think.

I'm waiting for my wavebird before I play GC games on wii.

How old's your brother...?

My brother and I were arguing about getting a wii or a Ps3, and my older brother got so mad he decided he wanted a PS3 and would pay for it himself (He has a good job as an......I dan't have a clue to be honest)............WHOOHOOOOOOOOOOOO!*Ahem*

Ive still got a load of PS2 games that Ive got to finish (or start in a couple of cases) so I dont know if i should get one or not.

Hmm.

I have a few unplayed (and barely played) cube games. I think I'll work through them before I have a wii.


A few months after launch then, if the games interest me.

Does anyone know about the internet capabilities of the Wii.

Specifically: I know that its Wi-Fi enabled, but does it have an ethernet port for people such as myself who dont have a wireless router?

Edit:- never mind, you can get an adaptor

Wii need a Skies of Arcadia sequel. That'll make me very happy. Also, I hope Wii plays any region GC games... If it does I can finally get cheap(ish) copies of Tales of Symphonia and Baten Kaitos.


[EDIT] - Also quite interesting, that article says Super Paper Mario is canned for GC and will now be revamped as a Wii title... I suppose it's a good thing, if it was a GC title it'd probably be damn-near impossible to find, like some of the great games that got released towards the end of the N64 life-cycle (see the original Paper Mario...)

Something for Hedfix


Nothing on there jumping out at me to make me budge from my stance of non-interest, maybe there is for you