Price, Launch Date and Launching games of Nintendo Wii announced!

1st thing 1st, Wii will be released in North America on 19th November at the price of US$249.99 while it will be released in Japan on 2nd December at the price of 25,000 yen. The US version of the console will comes bundled with a copy of Wii Sports, which is a compilation of Tennis, Bowling, Baseball, Golf and Boxing.

Virtual console games are priced as such:

NES – 500 yen

SNES – 800 yen

N64 – 1,000 yen

16 launching games are announced for Japan. They are (taken from Siliconera) :

Nintendo

Hajimete no Wii (Wii’s Beginning)

Odoru Made in Wario (Wario Ware: Smooth Moves)

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Wii Sports* (packaged in the system)

 

Atlus

Chou Shittou Caduceus Neo (Trauma Center: Second Opinion)

 

Bandai Namco

Ennichi no Tatsujin

SD Gundam Revolution

Tamagotchi no Pika Pika Daito-ryo

 

Hudson

Koroinpa

Wing Island

 

Konami

Elebits

 

Sega

Super Monkey Ball Uki-Uki Party Shuugoh (Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz)

 

Spike

Necro-Nesia

 

Success

Machikuru Domino (Mr. Domino Goes to Town)

 

Tecmo

Super Swing Golf Panya

 

Ubisoft

Red Steel

Just Warioware and Zelda is enough for me to get the console on the release date (along with Wii Sports). Hehe. But then although Warioware is a japanese launch game, it may not be a NA launch game…
Also, there’s a great preview video at the Wii Official Site which showcase many new games. Be sure to catch it!
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/wii_preview/movie/lineup.html

~ by rei_andrew29 on 14 September, 2006.