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Nintendo Wii Launch - 6 Days
This thread will be updated frequently, and will have all the information you need to know.
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.
This thread will be updated frequently, and will have all the information you need to know.
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.
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Pre-orders have been proven time and time again, if people are too stupid to pick up on the trend that popular things sell-out at christmas-time then that's their own fault.
Ba-dum-tsch :P
Fair enough, if people want to pay silly money for the consoles, that's their problem, but a lot of the buyers will no doubt be panicking Parents, willing to pay whatever to get their Kid the latest thing. Most Parents won't be in the loop as such and won't know how important preorders are, so this is their last resort I guess.
Having said that, I'm all for selling Xbox boxes for £100 and 3 Playstations for $900 - I don't have a problem with exploiting stupidity :D
Fair enough, if people want to pay silly money for the consoles, that's their problem, but a lot of the buyers will no doubt be panicking Parents, willing to pay whatever to get their Kid the latest thing. Most Parents won't be in the loop as such and won't know how important preorders are, so this is their last resort I guess.
Having said that, I'm all for selling Xbox boxes for £100 and 3 Playstations for $900 - I don't have a problem with exploiting stupidity :D
I say 'exploit' away.
It's not exploitation if they WANT it only if they NEED it.
A patient's meds? That's not on. A games console? Hardly life or death is it (except I hear the PS3 will also be a dialysis machine - it;s already taking the pee as it is)?
It's not exploitation if they WANT it only if they NEED it.
A patient's meds? That's not on. A games console? Hardly life or death is it (except I hear the PS3 will also be a dialysis machine - it;s already taking the pee as it is)?
What Al said.
Ebay shouldn't allow it to happen. It's extortionate, preying on desperate parents.
Since the PS1 I've had every console since launch and have never even considered exploiting the desperation of others. If I didn't want the console, I wouldn't have preordered, giving someone else the chance to get one for themselves (or allowing another ebayer to put another listing up!)
Ebay shouldn't allow it to happen. It's extortionate, preying on desperate parents.
Since the PS1 I've had every console since launch and have never even considered exploiting the desperation of others. If I didn't want the console, I wouldn't have preordered, giving someone else the chance to get one for themselves (or allowing another ebayer to put another listing up!)
You ebay sellers make me sick.
I got my Nintendo Wii today, I don't know if I want to sell it on Ebay thou. It lying in front of me is pure torture.
He lives in their air-conditioning.
Dringo, how did you know that John Lewis had some?
Where can I get one before Christmas?
Where can I get one before Christmas?
Parcelfarce delivered a Wii today from Amazon. It's my nephew's Christmas pressie but all the same, the temptation to whack it on eBay for £500 profit... nah.
I'm not bragging.
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