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Nintendo Wii Launch - 6 Days

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United Kingdom - 6 Days - 8 December 2006
North America - Out now!
Japan - December 2

Wii Console Price: £180
Wii Game: £30-40, Amazon.co.uk suggested
Wii Remote Cost: £30
Wii Nunchuk add-on: £15
Wii Classic Controller: £15
Wii Zapper: TBA

Visual Looks:

Wii Console
Wii Remote
Wii Remote + Nunchuk add-on
Game Box Art
Wii retail box

Video Demonstrations

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (SPOILERS)
Red Steel
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
Wii Sports
Excite Truck
Wii Play
Call of Duty 3
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
Far Cry
Wii getting ripped out of it's box!

Inside the Box:

- Wii Console (white)
- Wii Remote with strap
- Nunchuk
- Wii AC Adapter
- Wii Stereo AV Cable
- Wii Stand
- Wii Stand Plate
- Wii Sensor Bar
- Sensor Bar Stand
- AA Battery
- Wii Sports game

Launch Titles:

The Legend of Zelda : Twilight Princess
Wii Play (including Wii Remote)
Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Activision)
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam(Activision)
Madden NFL 07 (EA)
Need For Speed: Carbon (EA)
Happy Feet (Midway Games)
Rampage: Total Destruction (Midway Games)
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Sega)
Gottlieb Pinball Classics (System 3)
Super Fruit Fall (System 3)
Cars (THQ)
Barnyard (THQ)
Spongebob Squarepants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (THQ)
Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII (Ubisoft)
Far Cry Vengeance (Ubisoft)
GT Pro Series (Ubisoft)
Monster 4x4 World Circuit (Ubisoft)
Open Season (Ubisoft)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft)
Red Steel (Ubisoft)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent (Ubisoft)

Wii Interface

Wii provides a very unique and user-friendly interface for you to browse in.

You will get 6 satisfying features for you to browse in, these are, the wii menu, Mii Channel, Forecast Channel, Photo Channel, News Channel and Internet Channel. For more information on these channels go here

Wii Statues

Sites Currently Taking Pre-Orders.

NONE. YOU WILL NOW NEVER GET ANY WII BEFORE CHRISTMAS, TRY EBAY.

Wii Points

Wii points are something used to purchase features for the Wii via Wii Shop Channel. For example you can purchase a NES game for 500 Wii points. £0.75 makes up 100 Wii points. You will need to purchase a "Wii Points card", in order to use this system.

* NES Games = 500 Wii Points
* SNES Games = 800 Wii Points (900 Wii Points in Japan on selected games)
* N64 Games = 1,000 Wii Points
* Sega Genesis Games = 800 Wii Points (600 Wii Points in Japan)
* TurboGrafix 16 Games = 600 Wii Points

Also, another advantage would be consumers would put up Wii points for offer after you buy something. For example, if you buy a Wii game you will get 1500 Wii points.

Virtual Console

You may have heard a few things about Nintendo's Virtual Console, but not quiet sure what it is. The virtual console is another feature in the Wii, which allows you to download NES, SNES, N64, T16, Genesis, Commodore 64 and MSX games.

There is one catch thou, Nintendo's virtual console is not free. You will be required to pay £3.50 for NES titles, £5.60 for SNES, £7.00 for N64, £5.60 for Genesis and £4.20 for TurboGrafx-16 in able to play these.

You can't tell me the gamespot review is truthful if you have never played the game. If you have, please forgive me.

pb wrote:
> Um. What are you basing that on?
>
> Firstly, Zelda was originally meant for GC right at the start of
> the design phase, but was then made specifcially for Wii shortly
> after it started on the programming phase, hence it is
> programmed and designed for Wii.
>
> Most reviews I've read prefer the Wii controls to the Gamecubes.
> IGN, for instance, say "we have nothing but praise for the
> title's new Wii controls, which enhance the experience - not
> detract from it" and IGN, Nintendo magazine both say that
> they like the controls. It's got 9/10 or 9.5 in most reviews.

Heh, you must have designed the game. Never trust IGN, you can never get a true opinion from them, they just give it a ridiculously high rating, just so they don't upset/lose their fans. Oh yeah, you can't spell ignorant without IGN. Gamespot gave a good honest rating.

They decided to change the game to make it on the Wii far into the development, pretty late actually. Thats why they needed a delay. You won't get the "full experience" with it on the Wii. Because it was originally developed for GameCube. Gamespot even said, that the controls feel tacked on.

So if you want the full experience and not the greedy money hungry side of Nintendo, go get it for the Gamecube. Also, Nintendo are being a bit unfair with this, giving the Wii version of Zelda a higher priority. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, was supposed to give the Gamecube a nice death so it can rest in piece. They made a huge mistake doing this. With all the true fans (like me) pre-ordering when announced.

I guess you can argue that loads of people that will be getting a Wii won't have had a gamecube and most of the others are getting rid of theirs to get one. I don't think it matters that much in the whole scheme of things and it keeps those people who can't afford a Wii happy too.

ONM were rather generous with scores. I'm not complaining though, I did get the mag for 50p.

pb wrote:
> Because it's more immersive on the Wii.

To the casusal, uninformed gamer though, that's not enough. Alfonse has a bit of a point

Alfonse wrote:
> Only problem is the GC version, they shouldn't be releasing it.
> Why buy a wii to play Zelda if you can play it on a twenty
> pounds console?

Because it's more immersive on the Wii.

Plus there's SuperMonkey Ball, which gets a thumbs up from everyone, bar Edge, who are the fussiest reviewers on the planet and still gave it a half decent score, and Rayman Raving Rabbids, which is supposed to be great fun. Plus Wii Play, which you need to get if you're getting a second controller (why pay the same price for a controller on its own?) which ONM says is far beyond their expectations of the game.

Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam is pretty good fun, apparently, and the only bad things about Call of Duty 3 are the graphics compared to other systems and the lack of multiplayer, other than that it's a good game.

Only problem is the GC version, they shouldn't be releasing it. Why buy a wii to play Zelda if you can play it on a twenty pounds console?

Um. What are you basing that on?

Firstly, Zelda was originally meant for GC right at the start of the design phase, but was then made specifcially for Wii shortly after it started on the programming phase, hence it is programmed and designed for Wii.

Most reviews I've read prefer the Wii controls to the Gamecubes. IGN, for instance, say "we have nothing but praise for the title's new Wii controls, which enhance the experience - not detract from it" and IGN, Nintendo magazine both say that they like the controls. It's got 9/10 or 9.5 in most reviews.

OMG 11 days! Only 11! Damn, no good launch titles... Red Steel got sh*ty reviews. Call of duty isn't all that too. We got Zelda, but thats a sh*tty too, controls suck, it was meant for Gamecube but it was just copied on on Wii (was only meant for GC). Too bad, oh well whoever pre-ordered Zelda wii, have got ripped off, they're missing the full experience. Anyway I got it on the Cube, waiting till 15th of December.