Worldwide Wii Day (Sep 14/15): the official thread *Released Nov 19 for $250 (US)*

[StefanS]

The talk has finished. Now there's 7 playable mini-games:

Billard
Hockey
Shooting
Fishing
Find that Mii
Boozu Mii
Yubisashi PonPon

First package pics:

 

[DuckThor Evil]

Funny the Classic controller costs less than the remote.

Now why is that funny?
Or even unexpected? to me it makes perfect sense, that the classic SNES-copy controller is cheaper than the new remote with atleast semi-advanced technology inside...

 

[snakejoe]

JP launch game list
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/software/lineup/index.html

 

[darkblu]

In other news:

Wii.com is up

First shots of Wii OS can be found at: http://wii.com/jp/movies/miichannel/

holy munchkins! this looks sexier than OSX!

why is it that the japanese create exquisit sexy GUIs and the west lags behind a decade (apple excepted)?

 

[Clashman]

There's still a pretty decent chance that the story in the U.S. and Europe will be pretty different from Japan. In Japan, XBox 360 is dead, dead, dead, and not a real competitor to Nintendo. Thus, their only real competition is PS3, and it doesn't seem like it will be that difficult, (barring some sort of miracle Sony pricedrop), for Nintendo to kill their only real competition in terms of pricing while still severely ripping off their Japanese customers in comparison with those in the U.S. and E.U., where they have to be much more mindful of MS's presence and the 360's relationship to their own pricepoint.

 

[sfried]

holy munchkins! this looks sexier than OSX!

why is it that the japanese create exquisitive sexy GUIs and the west lags behind a decade (apple excepted)?

Now that I notice the link...
MiiChannel

 

[StefanS]

Fire Emblem Goddess of Dawn is played with the classic controller

Batallion Wars Wii: Wiimote+Nunchaku

Tony Hawk Downhill Jam:

EDIT:

34 playable titles:
incl. Legend of Zelda, Pokemon Battle Revolution, Super Mario Galaxy
probably also includes the mini-games...

 

[sfried]

Fire Emblem Goddess of Dawn is played with the classic controller

Isn't FE a strategy game? What's a strat game doing sticking to old controls?

 

[StefanS]

Isn't FE a strategy game? What's a strat game doing sticking to old controls?

I don't know, there's nothing more known yet. From the picture it looks like a dungeon crawler much like gauntlet....

There's a major update on the famitsu front page, with new screens, etc.

 

[StefanS]

Famitsu put the videos of the conference up.

http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/2006/09/13/103,1158136282,59965,0,0.html

First videos is of the OS:
default: game disc drive channel, chatting channel, picture channel; virtual console shopping channel, weather channel; news channel
Virtual Console channel: split per platform; opera channel (browser), 48 channels total;

 

[darkblu]

footage from the virtual console UI

http://www.excite.co.jp/world/engli...view/presentation/06.html&wb_lp=JAEN&wb_dis=2

make sure you check the rest of the pages - tons of suff to see!

 

[fireshot]

Interesting...pretty good times ahead. I can see a 3 way split in the 3 markets.

 

[Arwin]

holy munchkins! this looks sexier than OSX!

why is it that the japanese create exquisit sexy GUIs and the west lags behind a decade (apple excepted)?

I have to agree, it looks great. They have done really well in creating something that caters to the iPod crowd. Heck, even I think it is pretty. Well done, Nintendo.

 

[sfried]

I don't know, there's nothing more known yet. From the picture it looks like a dungeon crawler much like gauntlet....

There's a major update on the famitsu front page, with new screens, etc.

Fire Emblem is Nintendo's long standing strategy RPG franchise, just to let you know.

 

[StefanS]

Fire Emblem is Nintendo's long standing strategy RPG franchise, just to let you know.

I know that. I meant nothing is known on that installment...

EDIT:

new video
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/wii_preview/movie/lineup.html <---- WATCH THIS LOADS OF NEW FOOTAGE

EDIT: Wii table tennis, boxing, DQ swords (I think), etc...

 

[thatdude90210]

The UI looks pretty awesome. They have the advantage of being able to move the cursor around like you would with a mouse. The browser looks like it might actually be usable.

 

[hey69]

249 , just like i thought

 

[zoost]

I know that. I meant nothing is known on that installment...
WATCH THIS LOADS OF NEW FOOTAGE
EDIT: Wii table tennis, boxing, DQ swords (I think), etc...

I want one! I want one! I want one! I want one! I want one! I want one! I want one!

 

[Iron Tiger]

3,800 yen for the remote, 1800 yen for the classic controller, and 1800 yen for the nunchuck attachment.

Funny the Classic controller costs less than the remote.

The Classic controller is an add-on for the Remote. It doesn't have a wireless transmitter, and there's nowhere to plug it into on the console itself.

 

[pipo]

They have the advantage of being able to move the cursor around like you would with a mouse.

Yeah. That's a big advantage for a lot of stuff. The pointer sometimes looks a bit shakey though. But they can probably fix that in software...