[Wii] Official Nintendo Wii thread

I'd be excited in the pants region about WiiSports being tossed in there, but I don't think it includes the plane game anymore, so I will shrug my shoulders and post this post while waiting for official news. About Dreamcast relaunching in 2009 by that UK2 guy that used to post here. He claimed Bad Boys 2 was the greatest game ever. What a legend.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Japanese Virtual Console prices revealed (for the Nintendo consoles).


non-ImageShack'd image for whatever source.

So roughly, NES games = $5. SNES = $7. N64 = $10.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

MSX console support has been added to the Virtual Console?

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1:34 a.m. EST: [update 6] Iwata gives prices for virtual console games! 500 yen for NES games, 800 yen for SNES games, 1000 [typo corrected] yen for N64 games. Pay by credit card of Wii points card. Wii will play three MSX games.

Live updates of Japanese thingy here. I've always wanted to check out the obscure junk the MSX had. Plus the upgraded Metal Gear ports for laffo.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Metal Sphere

Infernal, is that Pay by credit card of Wii points card or Pay by credit card or Wii points card?

I guess it's OR, but I don't know. ;_; Joystiq typos ahoy!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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Wiiスポーツは、野球、テニス、ゴルフ、ボーリング、そしてボクシングの５本セットで4800円。
Wii Sport
- Baseball
- Tennis
- Golf
- Bowling
- Boxing
4800 yen

Bowling and boxing! Plane game goooone, nooooo. Probably put into Wii Motor Sports now. ;_;

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Technophile

Wasn't Metroid suppose to be a launch title as well?

For America, yeah. The GC Metroid Prime titles were released months after America and Europe in Japan.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

NEW OFFICIAL VIDEO OF UPCOMING GAMES.

.. In all its tiny little box glory!

Includes Bleach, Resident Evil, Dragon Quest Swords, Sonic, Forever Blue (that underwater game, it's by Nintendo), Dog Island, Tamagotchi, One Piece, Zelda, Metroid Prime 3, Wario Ware, WiiSports, Project H.A.M.M.E.R, Mario Strikers, EXCITE TRUCK, Bomberman, Dragonball, Pangya, Fire Emblem, Red Steel, Harvest Moon, WiiMusic, Rayman, Trauma Center, that Necro.. thing, WiiPlane, Pokemon, Gundam, WiiParty, Elebits, Monkey Ball and.. others!

FELIPE NO

Japanese packaging (I don't know why I'm pointing that out because it's a box with Wii on it so)


Fire Emblem gooooo.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Some JPEGS on the internet that show off the Wii's dashboard and built in applications.


Stuff/Game/Virtual Console selection.


Weather Channel. If only the sun was replaced with ANGRY SUN from Mario 3.


Photo.. viewer.. thingy.


And you can mess around with them! COOL DOG.


I believe this game is Donkey Kong.


Custom character creator, used for WiiSports, WiiMusic, WiiPlay, Wii Motor Sports and whatever other games will support them in the future.


Not sure. Looks like it may be an online friendzzzz lobby type thing?


Sex.

Videos of dashboard in sweaty action.

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The American conference has just started, IGN's doing live updates here.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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Wii goes on sale November 19. "The worldwide debut of the Wii system happens right here in the Americas -- the same place where we debuted Nintendo DS. On November 19, it will be available at more than 25,000 points of distribution across the Americas. And with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $249.99. One price. One configuration. One color." Which is, for the record, white.

No black, how racist.

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Plans to ship 4 million Wii consoles between launch and December 31. Americas will receive the largest share of stock.

Inside the box, you'll get the hardware, all the cables, the sensor bar. One Wii remote and one nunchuck controller.

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Says they'll have Excite Truck ready for Wii launch.

FUCK YES. =D





This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yes, Moonwalker is a must. ='D



Zelda and EXCITE TRUCK box art ahooooy!

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Wii version. GameCube version pushed back to December 11th just because Nintendo wants to keep striking those low blows! ='D

I was speaking idiomatically.

Hey new videos of stuff.

EXCITE TRUCK
http://gamevideos.com/video/id/6014

Korolimpa
http://gamevideos.com/video/id/6015

Samurai Warriors
http://gamevideos.com/video/id/6013

Fire Emblem
http://gamevideos.com/video/id/5998

Necro Nesia
http://gamevideos.com/video/id/6010

WiiSports: Boxing
http://gamevideos.com/video/id/5999

Trauma Center
http://gamevideos.com/video/id/6011

Wii Mii mini games (built into the system)
http://gamevideos.com/video/id/5996

Originally Posted by kainlightwind

Ugh. What are you talking about Reggie has said it's for the Wii only now.

No. He didn't. =)

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Screenshots of every game shown today. They're getting pretty raped, here's a few random games Image Shack'd.

Bleach


Nomiso Puzzle


Bomberman


Big Brain Academy


Necro Nesia


Forever Blue


Korolimpa


Harvest Moon


YOU KNOW THE DRILL


Project H.A.M.M.E.R (TIME)


Cooking Mama

That's a mighty piece of meat right there.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by chaofan

Infernal Monkey! LET ME GO TO SLEEP!!!

Argh, clicky, clicky screenshoty.

Ahaha never! "STAY A WHILE, STAY FOREVER"

More new Mario Galaxy screens at IGN. =x






interneeeet.

Originally Posted by HazelGuy

Oh man I can't wait for this. One of the games I'm grabbing for sure. And FREE to boot.

Yes! I hope Toys R Us don't try and pass the packed in WiiSports as the free game now though!

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

The IGN updates are zooming along the internet now. New screens of Zelda.







EXCITE TRUCK



Tony Hawk's Downhill Strawberry Jam



Wario Ware Smooth Moves





Am I destroying enough 56k guys? :]

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The system being region free is good, leaving the option for third parties to lock their games anyway isn't. Xbox 360's also region free, yet there's like two games that'll work on any system worldwide.

DS being region free combined with it actually being popular here has slowly forced publishers to rethink their prices. DS Games are $70, nearly double the price of what America pays, and it's not like our GST adds an insane amount. Hell, we're getting American games, they just slap an Aussie rating sticker over the 'E for Everyone' and try and hide the 'For sale in America, Cananananada and Mexico' part on the back with another sticker. But more and more local websites and independent game stores are stocking imported games for a fraction of the price. Why spend $70? We're now finally starting to see more $50 DS games come out, and while it's still pretty expensive, it's a start.

I fully expect the likes of EA and UbiSoft to region lock their games, and continue with sloppy PAL conversions with no 60Hz option, featuring massive black borders and added screen tearing due to the shit refresh rate.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It is really shitty of them not to include a second controller, especially with WiiSports forced in there. They obviously included it because it's one of the best ways to show off the systems controller out of all the launch titles (and it probably wouldn't sell that well by itself), but it does seem like a game where most of the enjoyment comes from having two players. Bowling isn't much/any fun by yourself! That and the controllers cost more than a game will.

$5 is expensive for a NES game, especially to us space age futuristic internet folk who have been getting them for free. That and you can go buy a stack of games for around that same price at a garage sale. They don't care though, they somehow sold millions of those GBA NES Classics for $20 a pop. $20 for an crap incomplete port of Donkey Kong, mmm tasty. SNES, I dunno. This depends on what games actually make it onto the service. I can imagine a few wanting the rare-ish games (Chrono Trigger?) sitting on their TV screen (that haven't gone and modded an Xbox). Or for PAL markets, the games that never got released in the first place (Mario RPG, Kirby's Dreamland 3, every single FF game).

The N64 price is okay simply for the fact that the Nintendo 64 controllers were the shittiest things EVER MADE IN THE HISTORY OF GAMING. Finding a controller that isn't emulating a prostitute is very rare indeed. Wait that doesn't make it okay at all. But I believe Nintendo mentioned back at E3 the N64 games would see slight upgrades ala the Zelda OoT bonus disc. I dunno. I'd hit Pilotwings 64 regardless. You're paying for the convenience of having all these games from multiple machines on a single system. You're also paying for lunch. For Nintendo. It'll be lobster stuffed with steak.

I'm really interested to find out how much PC Engine/MSX games will cost, neither console was released here and there are a lot of games that look pretty awesome on them. And while the launch price hasn't been announced here yet, I'm still ecstatic about getting a free game (on top of the 'free' WiiSports) with my pre-order. That's $100 saved. EXCITE TRUCK. Everyone move to Australia plz.

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Originally Posted by Technophile

I'm not sure if this was posted, but does anyone have an official, confirmed, list of launch-DAY games for Wii outside of Japan?

Yeah, Metal Sphere added it to the first post, but for the hell of it, confirmed games for the American launch;

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Nintendo
Excite Truck
The Legend of Zelda: Twlight Princess
Wii Sports (bundled with console)

Activision
Call of Duty 3
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Rapala Tournament Fishing
Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
World Series of Poker

Atlus
Trauma Center: Second Opinion

EA
Madden NFL 07
Need for Speed: Carbon

Konami
Elebits

Sega
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz

Ubisoft
Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
Far Cry: Vengeance
GT Pro Series
Monster 4x4 World Circuit
Open Season
Rayman Raving Rabbids
Red Steel
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent

thingy.

Twenty cents say System 3's Pinball Classics and Leaderboard Golf make the Euro launch~

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Pretty detailed explaination of what's on the Wii's dashboard here.


The Wii Channel includes a message board that's basically email, you can attach images and all that.


And it seems games like Animal Crossing will send notes to your message board. I BET NOOK'S ADVERTISING A STUPID PURPLE CHAIR FOR A MILLION BELLS.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Aussie launch details.

$400 AUD. WiiSports included. December 7th. That's quite a bit of fucking with the exchange rate. But I suppose since Microsoft and Sony have both totally ignored it, so Nintendo's gotta join in too. Gotta be part of the COOL CLUB. No mention of Excite Truck even making it out before the year ends.. *bitter tears*

Edit: ah haw haw! ='D

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yeah, it's certainly better than the GameCube, which was delayed till like SEVEN MONTHS after the American launch.

FELIPE NO

Oh wai- close enough to seven months. But yeah, came out mid-November in America, then.. silence! MAY in Australia with LESS launch games than America. Such a hilariously broken launch.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Ooh, Europe gets WiiPlay as a launch title (the game comes with a Wii controller packed in). WiiPlay includes Duck Hunt, Table Tennis, some.. weird Kuru Kuru Kururin style game where you move your custom characters around a maze and other stuff.

How ya doing, buddy?