Adam Creighton, Computer and Video Gaming: Nintendo Wii: U.S. press conference

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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Nintendo Wii: U.S. press conference

You didn't need to wait for the Nintendo U.S. press conference to get the goods on the stateside release -- a lot of it was retread from yesterday's NY Times article, with no real surprises from the Japanese press conference.

Besides, Nintendo published the U.S. press release before the actual conference, so you can find out "[Nintendo of America President Reggie] Fils-Aime made his remarks in New York" -- before he made them.

To summarize, in an oh-so-sexy way:

Wii will go on sale in the Americas on November 19th
The MSP is $249.99
The bundle will include includes one wireless Wii Remote controller, one Nunchuk controller, and a copy of Wii Sports (collection of five different Wii Sports games)
There was a little more info on the "Wii Channel" feature, which will allow users to "pick games to play, get news or weather, [edit,] upload and send photos or even create playable caricatures of themselves to use in actual games"
Between Nov. 19 and Dec. 31, 30 titles will titles will be available
First-party Nintendo titles will have an MSRP of $49.99
"Wii’s self-loading media bay also can play the entire library of more than 530 Nintendo GameCube titles from day one."
The U.S. pricing structure was not released, but will be "in the coming weeks"

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SOURCES: Gamespot.com, joystiq.com, kotaku.com, Xbox.com, IGN, GameInformer, Official XBox Magazine, CNN, gamesindustry.biz, and others.

Adam Creighton, Computer and Video Gaming (Subscribe)

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Nintendo Wii: U.S. press conference

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