Nintendo Reconfirms Wii Shipments

Gamasutra has Nintendo's 're-confirmation' that they're going to try to ship 6 Million units by the end of March 2007. If you're looking forward to Nintendo's new-gen console, their upcoming media event on September 14th may have just what you're looking for. The article also has a few details on upcoming accessories. From the article: "Although the price and release date of the Wii console and controller is not likely to be revealed until worldwide press events on September 14th and 15th, the Gamestop website lists a number of peripherals for release on November 1st. Included on the site is a Wii 'Controller Glove' for $9.99, a 'HD Premium Component Cable' for $59.99 and a 'S-Video Premium AV Cable' for $39.99." Relatedly, 1up has the news that Castlevania's creator is warming to the Wii. This will result in Belmont-related adventures for the Wii, one would hope.

Comments

Re:This is worse

[ArmyOfFun]

To be fair this is Gamestop's price for the MadCatz component cable. I really doubt the Nintendo component cable will be $60, as the Gamecube component cables were $25 (though they go for about $60 on ebay now).

Component cables should be included. This isn't the 1980's.

1980's? I thought component cables only came out a few years ago? You might be thinking of composite? I'd be shocked if Wii didn't ship with at least composite cables.

Re:"Controller Glove"

[MindStalker]

I've seen some "pictures" of this. Basically its a glove that straps the wiimote to the back of your hand. It was just a concept, but something like this could easily cost $10. Of course you would still need the nunchuck or some type of extended trigger to effectivcly do anything but move it around. But it does add a new "feel" to the use of the wiimote.

Re:This is worse

[Babbster]

Well, S-video doesn't transmit 480p at all. It carries NTSC signals (sometimes, incorrectly, referred to as "480i"). It looks significantly better than most composite connections and marginally worse than an NTSC component connection. 480p via component trumps any NTSC signal, and then 480p via DVI/HDMI would usually be a bit better than that.

Anyway, $60 for a component connection is ridiculous ($30-40 has been bad enough). That's the sort of thing that could make me go from buying the Wii at launch (it would be my first time doing so) to waiting until the price comes down. I'm certainly not going to go back to NTSC if the console is capable of 480p. Fortunately for people without digital TVs (and Nintendo), it won't matter to them.

Re:This is worse

[Frag-A-Muffin]

Anyway, $60 for a component connection is ridiculous ($30-40 has been bad enough). That's the sort of thing that could make me go from buying the Wii at launch (it would be my first time doing so) to waiting until the price comes down. I'm certainly not going to go back to NTSC if the console is capable of 480p. Fortunately for people without digital TVs (and Nintendo), it won't matter to them.

Kinda makes you wonder how the XBOX crowd feels like when they're asked to pay $100+ for the wifi adapter to make their system wifi'able. Think about it, that's half the (not yet announced) price of the Wii! And yes, the Wii will have wifi built in! To people who say the xbox360 isn't that expensive when you include all peripherals and things, I say blah.

Anyways.

If you RTFA, you'll notice these peripherals are all 3rd party ones. So I wouldn't worry quite yet. Sept. 14th is gearing up to be the big day we find out just about every missing details about the new system. (Price, date, peripherals, etc)

That's a week away. For the record, I can't friggin' wait :)

Re:$599 Wii, $499 crippled version

[miscz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH2w2l1JTs4