VIDEO Revolution Is My Game: The Nintendo Wii Discussion

I sat down and did the math today. With a little luck at Christmas, I can afford a Wii, Twilight Princess, an extra remote/nunchuck and a Wiipoints card.

There are times when I enjoy working part-time, and times when I hate it. This is one of the latter.

 

I'm going to wait outside my local Wal-Mart. I missed on pre-orders as I didn't expect to get one on launch, but now I can't wait.

Zelda is my only game besides Sports.

 

also, i managed to discover that a Star Wars game will come out for the Wii.

 

You know I've completely forgotten about the wii but then I found this countdown callander in a nintendo magazine and looking at it, it dosn't seem that far away

 

I dunno...three days is an awfully long time.

 

I got 3 weeks

 

Over 2,000 Gamestops/EB in the US will be opening at midnight on Saturday for the Wii release. Here's the catch, you must have a valid preorder in order to pick it up.

From the Press Release from this morning:

"GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) (NYSE:GME.B), the world's largest video game and entertainment software retailer, announced today that it will host midnight launch events at over 2,000 of its U.S. GameStop and EB Games stores in celebration of the release of Nintendo's revolutionary new Wii video game console. At the stroke of midnight on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 19, 2006, customers who have reserved a system are guaranteed availability at their local store."

I like it. I'm glad I preordered from them.

 

Business Week Miyamoto Interview This story is nothing short of wonder on how the Big N went to the basics of gaming. This is why I will be faithful to Nintendo till I'm on my deathbed.

 

I need confermation about somthing: Is there demo wiis or any kind of a tour out in the UK at the moment?

 

despite the sad fact that I'm playing with a Canadian division.

Hey, now, the Germans actually feared the Canadians.

 

Damn straight they did. Even in WWI the Germans knew who was boss on teh battlefield.

 

Oh, they have good reason to fear us.

 

Anyone else feel a little ripped off since nintendo is releasing a a higher end version with DVD player in late 2007? Why they couldn't add it on before I don't know!?


Here's the article:

"Nintendo confirmed via a Q&A at its official website that it will release a higher end version of the Wii in the later half of 2007. The new model will offer DVD playback, but is not expected to see any other changes, external or internal. Nintendo expects the new model to cost more than the standard 25,000 yen Wii due to the costs associated with DVD licensing.

Based on Nintendo's statement, it seems that, in Japan at least, gamers will be able to select between two Wii system SKUs later next year.

Those who purchase the current model Wii hoping for a DVD upgrade in the future may be out of luck. Japan's Impress Watch tech site reports that Nintendo currently has no plans to make the current Wii model DVD ready, neither through software nor hardware. Previously, Nintendo had planned on selling an attachment that would give the Wii full DVD capabilities."

 

I don't feel ripped off. I already have a DVD player.

 

Same. I would feel ripped off if it was a HD-DVD or a Blu-Ray player, but DVD has been out long enough for most of the gaming world to have one individually. It would be like releasing an N64 with a VHS player a year later.

 

I couldn't care less if the Wii has a DVD player or not...I prefer to buy the consoles for the gaming.

 

One thing that does piss me off is the exclusion of voices in zelda. This is the year 2006 I prefer to experience a game, not read it. You would have thought Nintendo would be up to speed by now. I realize that back in teh day the cartridges didn't have enpugh memory for voices...now we can put voices in games.

I think it's time Nintendo get up to speed in the sound department.

 

I have a quick question:

The wii can acess the internet right?

If so whos going to be first to post here?

 

I agree. I think that Link should remain a mute...but everyone he interacts with should have a voice.

 

The charaters in zelda will actually speak?

I never knew that

 

You have to buy extra equipment from Nintendo, I hear.

 

I don't think you need to buy extra equipment..where did you hear this?


The system is wi-fi so I assume all you would need is a high speed internet connection(which is the norm today) and a wireless router.

 

The internet is not going to be available from startup, its going to be added on later, youll have to buy it with Wiipoints. Its going to use a modified version of the Opera internet service.