Wii volution

[darkschneider]

In case you haven't read it in the news, here's what I'm doing on Nov. 18-19:

Nintendo Wii - Released on November 19th for $249.99 - expect 4 million units worldwide by end of year.

• Comes with one Wii Remote (retail value $49.99) and one Nunchaku attachment (r.v. $19.99)
• Comes with Wii Sports (first packaged game since SNES) - officially containing

Comments

[labrynthos]

Wow. That is exciting.

I've got tons of systems and the promise of being able to consolidate into one system is just great. Too bad it won't play Game Cube (which I only have just so I can play my GBA games on a TV)

I've been wondering when game companies would finally wake up to the ROM phenom and start trying to make money on rereleasing old games on the newer systems. Though, I admit, those prices are a little high IMO considering it's not like it takes all that much R&D to make the old games play on the Wii. If a bunch of hackers can do it for Windows w/o actually having the "official" NES coding and such, there's really no reason why the full might of Nintendo couldn't whip out these games cheaper.

[darkschneider]

But it does play GameCube games...? It comes with 4 ports for GameCube controllers.

[labrynthos]

Seriously? Cool.

[yuushi]

Bout the only thing that could make the Wii better is if Square announced the oft-rumored/wished for remake of Final Fantasy VII for the system (wouldn't that be a kick in the nuts to the Sony whores!!! XD )

Or better yet, a Final Fantasy VI remake!

[thatcalliecat]

i hear rumors of ffvi for the ds. which would be nice. if i hadn't been playing it on an emulator XD

[lilinthra]

Heh, a friend has had a Wii party in planning for months. He just needed to know when to set the date.

[rspeed]

Heh, Sony will let you want a PS3, but they're hell-bent to make you not want to pay for one or be able to find one.

[rishu]

. . . If they had "Earthbound 2" for the virtual console, I might be compelled to buy one.

[tartrazine]

On the off-chance you hadn't already heard, the ROM's almost translated.

[kartos]

YES TO MARK HAMIL!

Twilight Princess isn't one of hte launch titles, is it?

[darkschneider]

Twilight Princess IS one of the launch titles.

[kartos]

I thought so, awesome!

Does this mean I can get it for my cube that day? XD