[Wii] Official Nintendo Wii thread

Price and launch date announced due to a premature release of an article about the press conferences by the New York Times.

$250.

November 19th.

WiiSports to be packed in.

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Originally Posted by CloudNine

50 dollars for games. Not too bad.

30 games available for download through the virtual console seems kind of weak. I hope that goes up alot after launch or else it seems like a waste.

Note the "at launch" at the end of that figure. It's going to be just like the XBox Live Arcade, they'll be adding plenty more later.

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Originally Posted by Lukage

Let's wait for Nintendo to state it. You're just hours away. Stop with the "reported" this and that. FFS, the official word is coming.

I highly doubt they're going to say anything different at the conference. The newsmedia has these stories written days in advance, so unless Nintendo changed its mind in the past few days (highly unlikely), I see no reason to doubt the veracity of the report.

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Originally Posted by NES Oldskooler

It's nowhere to be found on New York Times' site, for one.

Have a look. It's a scavenger hunt: find the non-existant article!

Edit: Hah, IGN's "proof" link (this used to work) is now mysteriously gone. Wait a few hours, people.

What that says to me is that they removed it after realizing they were violating an embargo. Because I went to both of those sites not 10 minutes ago and the articles were there in their entirety.

Acer, Skills had a good point about the release date. After the PS3 sells out on Day 1, what are thousands of flustered shoppers going to do? Buy the Wii, which by all accounts won't be nearly as hard to find and a lot less expensive.

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They previously announced that the Classic Controller wasn't going to be in there... I think. I remember reading that about a week ago.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Oh for god's sake.

Can't the media get this shit right?

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Now that Famitsu's gone and done that I'm joining the boat of people who are waiting for the words to fucking come out of Iwata's mouth.

I have to go to bed, I'll see what happened tomorrow morning.

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Originally Posted by Nintendonomicon

Please. It's a hell of a lot more likely that they were asked to remove the article until tomorrow's conference ends.

Agreed. This was put up along with all of the other articles for today by someone who didn't realize there was an embargo on it. Stories are written in advance ALL THE TIME, do people seriously think that the New York Times livewrites their fucking articles like Joystiq is doing right now?

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Originally Posted by Lukage

All that matters is that the Newspaper Article was WRONG. For better or worse. Just so you all shut up and wait to see what Iwata says.

WE DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS OR NOT YET.

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Nintendo press release.

This is official word. Unfortunately, it's in japanese, so here follows a babelfish translation.

Because the Nintendo Co. corporation, December 2nd this year (Saturday), 25 and 000 Yen (consumption including tax desired retail price) with the country the new amusement machine "Wii" which creates the electronic amusement experience inside completely new home to sell, we inform. This Wii which we sell (pronounces "ウィー") or less is included in substance set. * Wii itself × 1 * the Wii remote control strap it is attached, × 1 * ヌンチャクコントローラ × 1 * Wii private AC adapter × 1 * Wii private AV cable × 1 * Wii itself private stand × 1 * Wii itself private auxiliary plate × 1 * Wii private sensor bar × 1 * センサーバースタンド × 1 & single three dry cell battery × 2 Furthermore, overseas, it is the schedule which in the next few days is announced from the respective local subsidiary company in regard to sale schedule and price.

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The NYT was not reporting on Japan. >8U

Although I'd be incredibly surprised if they were seriously coming out with the damn thing here earlier.

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They did? I could've sworn that came out over there first. Weird.

Also, Lukage, to my knowledge it's common for the system to cost a little bit less over there because if I recall correctly games cost comparatively more. Also you have to account for that fact that for Wiis to get here they have to ship internationally, and that adds to the cost.

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2:09 a.m. EST [update 11]: Gemaga reports 3,800 yen ($32.31) cost for the remote, 1800 ($15.30) yen for the classic controller, and 1800 ($15.30) yen for the nunchuck attachment.

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Hah! I was editing mine in.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I would hope that the nunchuk doesn't become as required as many of the games demoed so far seem to make it. I wouldn't mind needing to use it, but what I was sold on on the wii was the remote itself, not the nunchuk. :/

And yeah, price-wise, it's not too much of a difference. PS2 controllers currently sell for $25-$30, and third-party ones can hit $50.

Speaking of which, I hope to god MadCatz doesn't make a Wii controller. ;_;

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Originally Posted by Shonos

What time does the American conference begin? I'm hoping I'll see some good news when I wake up in the morning and the Wii really will be coming out over in America earlier.

9 AM EST, if I remember right.

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Since when have the Pokemon console titles been any good? That just sounds like OMG POKEMON STADIUM 5: THE ONE WITH ALL THE POKEMONS

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I don't think Metroid entirely counts as first-party, considering it's developed by Retro Studios. Can't remember if they're second or third party, but they're definitely not first-party.

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My brother sucks at taking pictures, so sorry for the blurry pictures on some of these. At work today we got display boxes (empty boxes we use in place of putting the actual game out on the floor) for Wii games. To my knowledge these are the first pictures of Wii boxes to be RELEASED ON THE INTERNETS.

Warning: These are HUGE pictures.


Front of Avatar: the Last Airbender

Back of the box

The spine... notice how the whole thing is white, as well as the box!

Spine from another angle

Closeup of the little indicator icons on the box... they're just as slick and minimalist as the rest of it, but that confuses me. Does that mean the game uses 1 controller, or is it 1 player? The nunchuk thing I understand, but that controller thing is kind of confusing considering all of these games theoretically would be 4 player games.

All four of the ones we've gotten so far!

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This is a really great development, because that will drastically reduce the amount of time it'll take a developer to get used to the technology. This will (HOPEFULLY) allow developers to make better games earlier on in the Wii's lifespan; that was the DS's problem, basically nothing that came out for the first year was any good, then once everyone got used to the technology the games started getting better really fast.

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As a loyal and diligent employee of Toys R Us I am legally bound and obligated to dispel these rumors.

However, since I am not a loyal employee of Toys R Us I can confirm that essentially, yes, that is the case. At least, at my store.

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By request:

Unfortunately, I actually missed the time when they handed out all of the preorders. Apparently, between Elmo, PS3, and Wii, they decided with 3 cashiers they really needed to get started as early as possible, so they let all of the preorder people in about a half hour before I arrived.

In our defense, about the policy about the preorders, corporate changed that on us at the last fucking second. The reason some TRUs didn't do it was because it was changed on Saturday, and I guess some either didn't want to change it so late or didn't know it changed. It really frustrated me because I'd told so many people that we were only allowing one or the other, and then corporate decided to pull the rug from under us.

I had met the people as they arrived, and it was really interesting to see how totally NEUTRAL they all seemed to be. No one really came across as a huge fanboy.

The day of, a lot of people came in right after we opened asking for the presells, and we had to tell them we'd already sold out. A couple of people got really irate, considering they didn't understand the whole thing about waiting in line in front of the store gets you one first. One person got REALLY pissed because we opened the store early, and I don't think I ever drilled it into her head that whether we had opened at 9:15 or 10 AM, she wouldn't have gotten one. She was just irate that the store had opened early.

It's actually pretty cool that our store ended up in Kotaku. I should try to contact them, see if I can put up a defense.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I have a question. Has anyone had trouble with messages not sending to other Wiis for a long period of time? Skills sent me some messages last night and they just arrived in my message board today. Does the Wii have to be off, so WiiConnect24 can engage, or what?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I think in that case it's just some retailers trying to get a slight markup on the prices. The easiest thing to do is just to enter in your credit card number.

I'm really liking my Wii so far, but I'm going to have to go on a serious hunt for some component cables. My TV does NOT handle composite very well at all, and there's a distinct video lag. Which i was expecting, because that's the problem the TV seems to have, but it's something that never seems to happen with component cables. Too bad Nintendo decided not to make nearly enough of those damn things.

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Yeah, I'm not saying I really care if the graphics are any better, I just know my TV handles component about 5000 times better than composite.

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Originally Posted by Shonos

I think I'm cursed. Everytime I try to get a hold of one of these they're always out of stock. Where are the Wiis, dammit. >=|

I don't know about where you live, but around here whenever we get X amount of Wiis, 3X people show up. I have no clue how demand could only be increasing at this stage, although Nintendo I'm sure is loving every minute of it.

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