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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
Why were they so special? Story, i'm guessing.
Nothing on there jumping out at me to make me budge from my stance of non-interest, maybe there is for you
[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...)
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
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.