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Wii to Launch Nov. 19th for $250
PygmySurfer writes "According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Nintendo is going to announce today that the Wii will go on sale on November 19th in North and South America, at a cost of $250. It will come bundled with Wii Sports and channels for such things as viewing photos, as well as news and weather. Finally, Wii will also make it possible to browse the web on your television. Nintendo will also announce that 25-30 games will be published this year, as well as about 30 classic games available on the virtual console, costing about $5-10."
Yes, and already announced that Wii was going to ship with it on the flash drive. Who wants a browser on their tv anyway? It sucked on Dreamcast and it's going to suck on Wii.
The Farewell Tour II
It's too expensive. Nintendo spent way too much money on this, and nobody will be able to afford it. And where's the innovation that Nintendo are meant to give us? They just do the same thing they did before. Yet another new controller. A ploy to repeat past success.
I'll wait for the PS3. I can get one of them for less than the cost of an XBox 360 + a Wii. And there's some serious innocvation going on there.
Can't say I've noticed much innovation in Nintendos kit to be honest either. Gamecube, N64? Where was the innovation in them? And then there's the software. Who wants to lay money on "Wii Sports" actually being "Marios Egg and Spoon Racing Challenge" or similar childish junk that this company consistently dredges up for its console launches? Conveniently forgetting that these days the people who buy consoles are not 12 years old. Perhaps in japan 20-somethings are still into cartoons (Manga anyone?) but in the west we generally want something a bit more adult, and Nintendo rarely deliver on that initially if at all.