Wii Pricing and Dates for America: November 19th
Published September 14th, 2006 in Gaming, Noteworthy, Technology
It looks like Northa America will be getting the Wii earlier than Japan which is quite strange. The details were also spilled early in by Seattle PI, then removed and re-instated. But at Nintendo’s NYC press conference the details were official revealed. The Americas will receive the Wii at a MSRP of $249 USD (or $280 CDN in Canada), in only white (therefore one configuration). Wii Sports, a game that has bowling, tennis and other sports games will be bundled with the console. Signiture game titles are Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and Excitetruck both of which are available at launch. These first-party games will cost $49.99 US, and there are a lot of third-party games as well.
“These titles represent fantastic trio of first-party titles. There’s nothing like Legend of Zelda, first time we’ve had a Zelda title on launch. Gives us a huge boost and momentum right out of the box. We will continue to make those big masterpiece titles for the core gamer. Because of Wii remote and nunchuk, this Zelda game plays like no other. If you played all day, you’d only scratch the surface. This is the best gotta-have-it title since Mario 64.” - Reggie
A new section has been created in the Wii menu. Called Wii channels these offer different areas, ie) games, news, shop, weather, etc. A downloaded classic game will have its own channel. Starting on launch day, until the end of year, Nintendo offer 30 legacy titles. Next year, ten new titles will be released a month. 500 Wii Points for NES Games, 800 Wii points for SNES, 1000 for N64 Games. 2000 Wii Points for $20 USD. Wii points are used to buy things, like MS points for the 360. 2000 Wii points will go for $24CDN in Canada.
You can read Engadget’s full article, giving you a blow by blow of the event with photos.
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