[Wii] Official Nintendo Wii thread

The pricing is pretty much what I came to expect. The $199 many were hoping for is way too optimistic regardless of what is bundled with the console, although it's too bad Nintendo won't offer a couple tiers for consumers to choose among. I would rather purchase the Wii with the bare necessities for a cheaper price and let me choose my own games to take home. Wii sports will get shelved the moment I take it out the box, it's just not my type of game.

Virtual Console. I don't mind that it's there but I have zero intentions of taking advantage of it. I can currently play any classic game on my PC for free and choose not to. Suddenly having to spend money to do so and, well you guessed it, ain't happening.

I'm a little surprised Nintendo is throwing in some mutlifunctional uses with the Wii. I thought the console was orginally borne to be solely a gaming machine. I find the built-in weather station thingy an odd inclusion considering you can simply access sites such as http://www.weathernetwork.ca/ with the browser. I really can't see myself taking advantage of these or the digital photo viewer and video/DVD add-on playback features. But I suppose that's besides the point because what I will take advantage of is being able to play some kick ass games.

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Originally Posted by Pez

A weather channel is awesome. Imagine: raining today, raining in Animal Crossing.

Woot, time to play TP. Whoops, better check on the weather first... ??

It's still kind of a silly idea since any of the next-gen consoles could have this feature if developers wanted to include it in their games. The dashboard in the interface itself isn't what unlocks a feature like this. It's just collecting weather data from the internet. Unless of course the Wii actually comes equipped with a barometer and other sensors.

It's likely just me but a feature like this in a game wouldn't really get me too excited. I don't see any special connection between it being sunny outside my apartment and it being sunny inside my game.

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Originally Posted by Omnislash124

That's a Far Cry from your $1,600, even if it was an exaggeration.

BFG GeForce 7900 GT OC 475MHZ PCI-E 512MB 1.36GHZ GDDR3 Dual DVI-I HDTV Out Video Card
$418

Kingston ValueRAM PC2-4200 1GB 2X512MB DDR2-533 CL4 240PIN DIMM Dual Channel Memory Kit
$165

Intel Pentium D 945 3.4GHZ LGA775 2X2MB 800FSB Dual Core Processor Retail Box
$224

Total: ~$800

You post that newegg crap like those prices mean a damn thing to us guys north of the boarder. Even $800 dollars is an ambitious price for a CPU/RAM/VIDEO upgrade. The stuff I posted was the closest I could find for price comparison. Of course I linked to a 7900 because I'm not so sure what you're suppose to do with a 7600 except maybe run Quake III. None of this means anything because we still need a new MOBO for all of this to work and the fact that speaking for myself would prefer to purchase actual decent PC components (ie. not the stuff above) which would easily drive the price well over $1,000. So $1,600 is a pretty realistic figure for a PC ugrade when you're speaking in Canadian dollars.

But by the way, why bother pre-ordering a Wii? It's not like there's going to be shortages right. Nintendo is shipping 8 trillion units for Christmas are they not? Or is there some sort of incentive for pre-ordering? It's just I would be pretty darn surprised when I showed up to EB on launch day and be turned away because they have no stock.

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