The nintendo WII
 

Tell me everything you know about this console. I feel like I want to buy one but just to make 100% sure.

Well, the one thing I do know is it's spelled Wii. :shifty:

2) It will job to 360.

3) It has the gayest looking controller in history.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/e3_200...to_nunchuk.jpg

Large catalog of old nintendo games.

^ 4)

The controller looks awesome.

Yeah for a ninja. :p

I'd rather be a ninja than an over-weight nerd. :p

*edit*

Thats was a generalization of the average gamer and in no way related to Diesels size, shape, or social status.

Launch titles?

Prolly Mario Sunshine X or some shit.

Some little kiddy game i bet.

I will be buying a Nintendo for the first time on launch. Mainly because I already own a 360 :D

Well the controls are montion sensitive so you move the controler to do stuff but some games let you use a regular controller/ Gamecube controller.

You can play Gamecubes games on it and download games from the NES, SNES, Megadrive, N64 and some other console I can't remember the name of with the "Virtual Console" download thing.

Games on release are Zelda: Twilight Pincess, Super Mario Galaxy and thats all I know as far as games go. Theres obviously more.

Can't remember the cost but it's alot less than a Ps3.

$250

Which you can buy the originals for for a fraction of the cost on Ebay, even including the shipping.

UK residents can pre-order this now at play.com

http://play.com/Games/Wii/RNR/3-/103...s/Product.html

I will definetely be getting one for Christmas.

Since they are going to have web browsing can you download like GTA3 and play it on the wii maybe?

It still can't play DVDs? WTF? Don't tell me they're still doing that reverse spin crap.

seriously just by a dvd player they are like 30$ now

Which you can download free roms and use an emulator on your computer.

QFT.


Want to go on a genocidal spree and take out any people who don't get one?:y:

Like the Gamecube and the GBA, the DS and Wii will connect for games and other stuff.

I want one but I still think Wii is the gayest name ever

I'm starting to wonder how this console is next generation at all. What with it's lack of DVD playing abilities, which even the last generation had.. to top it off, it has a lack of real graphical improvement.

Granted, it may end up being a solid console. But next generation? Hardly.

Well it has better graphics than the Gamecube, so by that virtue it's next gen. Plus it has plenty of features that are a step up from the GC. And just because Nintendo have decided to focus on something other than raw power and graphical ability, doesn't mean it isn't a next generation console. And honestly, who cares if it doesn't play DVDs? You can get DVD players for next to nothing.

so if the PS3 and the 360 couldn't play DVDs they would not be considered next gen either?

OH NO, IT DOESN'T PLAY DVDS!!!

It's not next gen in terms of graphics (Though Nintendo will pop out a few games with amazing graphics). It's next gen in terms of gameplay.

Most of my favorite recent-ish games don't have great graphics, but great gameplay. It won't bother me much if most to all of Wii's games aren't anywhere near as nice looking as the PS3 or Xbob 360's games. If I want great graphics I will buy either a PS3 or Xbox 360... Which I plan on doing eventually. I'm just waiting for better games.

I'm just saying.. they're skipping important things that were around in the last generation. It's basically a slightly upgraded gamecube with focus on peripherals and 'features' (such as a game library of the old nintendo games) instead of a system that is really improved such as the 360 and PS3. (Granted, I don't like the 360, but they at least came out with a -far- better system than their previous one. And no I'm not dissing the old x-box.)

Yeah, because implementing an entire new style of playing games is really just focusing on peripherals and not advancing the entire gaming genre as a whole.

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption :drool:

The discs will be bigger, no more of the minidisc shit that plagued the Cube by scaring off third party developers. Also there will be a standard-type controller, which I think will be sold seperatly, for those wanting a more "traditional" style controller.

Here's some other stuff from USAToday.com:

If the Gamecube came out with with a motion sensing controller, would it really be that much different?

Yeah, you can re-buy all your old games for more than you can buy them now. Yeah, you get an internet browser (I didn't hear a lot of people asking for this feature but I guess it's only an unnecessary if Sony or Microsoft puts it in their console) but in order to use it you have to have an internet connection and that means, more than likely, there is a computer someone near.

Other than that it seems like I'm paying another $250 for a new controller.

Yeah. Me and RDD are going to stomp some fucking heads.

I will not buy it unless it can make me Ice Cream and play DVD's.

Bring it on bitches.

Our XBox 360 gang is stronger then your little kiddy Nintendo gang. :mad:

If you notice, Nintendo aren't really using the Nintendo name much with Wii, sure it's there, but its not in your face. They want everyone to play games and attract new gamers whilst trying not to say 'HEY THIS IS A GAME MACHINE!' So that people don't get scared off.

The inclusion of the Internet browser is for the purpose of making people sit around the TV as a family and using the Internet, it's also a lot faster to connect to the internet and will probably be mad easy like it was getting your DS online with the WiFi.

I don't see how that not including the DVD compatability makes this any less of a next generation system, when EVERYONE has a DVD player of some kind and with it's inclusion, no doubt would have added to the over-all price of the system.
Nintendo have said something along the lines of Wii isn't next generation, this is the new generation. They are trying to better the industry and that's with the controller. Controllers have always been updated and ultimately bettered with every 'Next Generation' but the attention was always on the graphics, this time the Graphics have been bettered but the attention is on the controller.

I'm looking at the graphical view points this way, graphics really don't matter.

Everyone has a PC and a lot of people will play games on there PC, the life of a PC and it's hardware/software are alot shorter compared to consoles. So though the 360's and PS3's graphical ability are superior to Wii's, PC's will always be that step ahead but do the same amount of people who play consoles play PC games? No, more people play consoles. Just because high end PC's will better that of console's graphics doesn't mean people play PC games because of it.

It's all about enjoyment, experience and interactment not just about graphics and a DVD player.

Launch lineup:

* Avatar: The Last Airbender
* Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
* Blitz: The League
* Call of Duty 3
* Cars
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
* Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
* Elebits
* Excite Truck
* Far Cry
* GT Pro Series
* Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Madden NFL 07
* Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
* Metal Slug Anthology
* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
* Monster 4x4 World Circuit
* Need for Speed: Carbon
* Open Season
* Rayman Raving Rabbids
* Red Steel
* SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
* Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
* Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
* Trauma Center: Second Opinion
* Wii Sports

Unimpressive. The only game I want is Ultimate Alliance, and I can get that on my PS2.

Last I heard Metroid had been delayed so will no longer be a launch game.

And it's not that unimpressive. As long as people can get Zelda and a few other titles to keep them busy, they should be fairly happy.

* Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
* Metal Slug Anthology
* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
* Wii Sports

That's about all I really care about, as far as line up. I know that there are some good games coming up down the line (Smash Bros Brawl), but some of those launch titles are probably going to be crap (Care, Spongebob, etc).

And it's not like I don't have a DVD player, I'm just pointing out that it's a pretty basic feature and they're not taking advantage of it. When my dad's dvd player was acting up, what did we do? Plug my PS2 into the tv and watch movies with it. If the gamecube had a DVD feature (like that Japan-only version of the cube), I wouldn't have needed to buy a DVD player (didn't have one at the time). All I'm saying is you never know when it'll come in handy. And it's not like it would drive up the price the way Blu Ray is doing to the PS3.

Yeh Metroid's been delayed, which isn't really a bad thing! Retro stated around E3 time I think that Corruption wouldn't be mulitplayer and wouldn't go online, but that was when it was a planned launch title, this gives me the impression (as a Nintendo exec was talking about getting online playing Wii and used Metroid as an example, but that same article had a note from the editor saying that a PR guy had said: 'Though metroid hasn't been confirmed as online') that Corruption might now have a multiplayer/online mode, which would be awesome.

Also, with it being delayed, means I can spend my time, firstly, gazing in awe at the sexyness of the Hardware, touching the controller, setting up Mii, looking around THEN playing Wii sports for a while, THEN playing Zelda and letting it totally take over every spare minute THEN playing Red Steel and Excite Truck, and going back to Zelda cos it will take ages to complete and playing Wii sports a hundred more times, Metroid being delayed isn't a bad thing, as it's going to be hard enough to split my time.
Then when it comes along, I can devote a lot of time to that, which it's bound to take.

* Call of Duty 3
* Excite Truck
* Far Cry
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Madden NFL 07
* Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
* Rayman Raving Rabbids
* Red Steel
* Wii Sports

I'm looking forward to all of these. I thought Mario was going to be out for launch?

* Call of Duty 3
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Metal Slug Anthology
* Red Steel
* Trauma Center: Second Opinion
* Wii Sports

and I guess Metroid when it eventually comes out, but I've never really played a Metroid game.

Wow.

I have no idea where to start with that. Please name me one thing that you would do with your family on the internet. This isn't like the radio back in the 1930s. And how, in any way, other than already being at the TV, would it be faster to use your Wii.

That lineup is incredibly unimpressive and the only game I would want to play would be Zelda. After E3 I was kind of excited but now I think that was only because of the occasion.

That's like saying "Microsoft said I can play solitare on this computer. I really don't like solitare, and will hardly ever play it, but that's pretty sweet."

Seriously, that's how insignificant that is. Booking a vacation on your Wii? That's going to happen what, once.. maybe twice in the entire time you own the thing. Odds are, it won't even happen at all. You peope are just digging for anything now, and these reasons are getting ridiculous.

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Can you use points to upgrade the system into a PS3?

If so, I'm sold.

The games I could be gettign at launch, although I'll end up buying only two or three because of money issues:

* Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
* Excite Truck
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Rayman Raving Rabbids
* Red Steel
* Trauma Center: Second Opinion

Zelda is a given, and I didn't include Wii Sports because it's packed in. That's seven potential launch titles, which is pretty impressive in my opinion.

A more up to date launch list.

Games

Nintendo announced that at launch their titles will include:

• Wii Sports
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Excite Truck

Third party titles announced or expected to make launch so far:

• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Activision)
• Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (Atari)
• Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Atlus)
• Madden NFL 07 (EA)
• Need for Speed Carbon (EA)
• Elebits (Konami)
• Blitz: The League (Midway)
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Sega)
• Metal Slug Anthology (SNK)
• Cars (THQ)
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (THQ)
• Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII (Ubisoft)
• Far Cry (Ubisoft)
• GT Pro Series (Ubisoft)
• Open Season (Ubisoft)
• Monster 4X4 World Circuit (Ubisoft)
• Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft)
• Red Steel (Ubisoft)

Third Party Wii Titles Through March 27, 2007:

• Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Activision)
• Rapala Tournament Fishing (Activision)
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Activision)
• World Series of Poker (Activision)
• Dragon Ball Z Budokai: Tenkaichi 2 (Atari)
• Trauma Center : Second Opinion (Atlus)
• Chicken Little: Ace in Action (Buena Vista Games)
• Disney's Meet the Robinsons (Buena Vista Games)
• Dance Factory (Codemasters)
• Sidewinder (Codemasters)
• The Godfather (EA)
• Madden NFL 07 (EA)
• Need for Speed: Carbon (EA)
• SSX (EA)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour (EA)
• Elebits (Konami)
• Bust A Move Revolution (Majesco)
• The Ant Bully (Midway)
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (Midway)
• Happy Feet (Midway)
• Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Midway)
• Rampage: Total Destruction (Midway)
• Sonic and the Secret Rings (Sega)
• Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz (Sega)
• Metal Slug Anthology (SNK)
• Avatar: The Last Airbender (THQ)
• Barnyard (THQ)
• Cars (THQ)
• SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (THQ)
• Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII (Ubisoft)
• Far Cry: Vengeance (Ubisoft)
• GT Pro Series (Ubisoft)
• Monster 4x4: World Circuit (Ubisoft)
• Open Season (Ubisoft)
• Prince of Persia (Ubisoft)
• Rayman: Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft)
• RED STEEL (Ubisoft)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ubisoft)
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Ubisoft)
• Ice Age 2 (Vivendi)

Good thing you asked me, I've got a lot of experience in gaming.


The Wii is about 3 DVD cases in size. The newer announcements are the Wii Channels and Wii Browser. The Wii Channels are some 48 Channels for wii related stuff, like the 'Mii' channel for caricatures, a News Channel, and a Weather Channel where you can see weather forecasts all ove the world.

For games, at launch, the big games I see are Red Steel, Rayman Raving Rabbids, and Legend of Zelda Twiglight Princess. Unfortunatley, Metroid Prime slipped to 2007, and Super Smash Brothers Brawl and Super Mario Galaxy are two other major 2007 players.

While you can still order games from the Virtual Console and use the Wii Browser( you will be able to code Wii games, last I heard), third party titles will not use Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for multiplayer, although the jury's still out on whether or not WiiConnect24 will be useable by third parties prior to 2007.

The Wii graphically is and always will be inferior to the other two consoles. Will first party Wii titles look better than a lot of 360 titles? sure, but don't try to compare Metroid Prime 3 and Halo 3 graphically. Both titles look great, but the 360 can just do more.

If you want to know anything else, ask, and I shall answer.

BTW, EGM reported a while back that an early playable version of Red Steel looks sexy, but plays like jittery shit. Pretty disappointed right there. :(

I see myself getting a Wii somewhere down the line, but definitely not at t launch. :-\

I shall be using the internet to it's full extent on a TV. (e.g. set my homepage as youtube :P)

The newer versions are fixed up. Apparantly, the sword follows your controllers movement now as well, which I didn't before.

Anyways, I'm goignt ot dip into my savingds for this ebcause as well as the console and 2 controllers, I shall be getting:

• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Excite Truck
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
• Trauma Center: Second Opinion
• Madden NFL 07
• Blitz: The League
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
• Metal Slug Anthology
• Rayman Raving Rabbids
• Red Steel

Thats gonna set me back a bit, and also pre-order the following:
Sonic
Morio Galaxy
Super Smash Bros.
Metroid Prime 3
Dragon Quest
and SSX

Damn, I cannot wait for December!

When is Mario coming out?

2007, thats all we know.

And it appears Amazon have sold out of pre-orders

http://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/200...-up-on-amazon/

I've been wondering the same thing. We all know it he should just admit to it.

Luigi is not his "brother" in the literal sense...

Pleanty, the amount of times my Dad asks me to do things, find things, tells me to look at things for him on the internet is countless. Only yesterday infact did he ask me to do two things, which both times required me to boot up my PC, log in, wait a couple minutes, then 1: Find an address and a telephone number of a local Football ground and 2: Check out some videos on youtube of some group he liked when he was a kid and couldn't rememeber something. It will be faster to turn on my 'never off' Wii and connect to the internet then doing it through my PC.

My sister and here boyfriend, who both really don't get on with PC's looking for a hoilday on the Internet (point and click) probably easier for the computer illiterate.

Yes, he is.

JOKES

Also, it's like you're saying people aren't going to use the Wii Internet browser, when you're using the Internet now, what makes it different from sitting on my sofa and using a Wii controller instead of a mouse.

There will also be ideas that families might not have thought about doing with the Internet before now, sat in your front room or whatever. Looking at porn together, who knows, shopping, also gives you another option to use the internet if someone else is on the PC.

I would rather watch porn my TV. :yes:

I'll be getting (along with another Wii-mote and Nunchuk and Classic Controller as well as possibly another Gamecube memory card just to be on the safe side and Wii sports cos it's bundled)

*Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
*Red Steel
*Excite Truck

Probably leave it at that and ask for some games for Christmas, being Call of Duty 3 namely.

Good times. :love:

Thats right.

Yeah there is:

http://pornotube.com/

LOL.

With people having grievances with the name, Wii and porn isn't probably the best combination.

I know that porn ins't really a thing Nintendo wanted Wii to be associated with and not many families would gather round and watch porn (unless you live in the deep south of America haha) but Boyfriend/Girlfriend/Wife/husbands could gather round maybe.

I live in the South. :-\

I can think of several times the family has been huddled around the Computer looking at pics or whatever. And on many occasions I have wished to have bigger screen for my PC so we wouldn't have to be jumbled next to one another. It will be nice to be able to show whatever it is we're looking at on the big screen. It's a neat feature with several applications. I'm interested in seeing how well it functions.

I find it much more convenient to press a button to start up a PC rather then use my Wii controller to type in an address, search, or anything with text. Even if you used a keyboard, I wouldn't want to have to go unplug my keyboard just to use it for Wii.

I can't imagine a single moment I would ever use thee Wii Internet. Ever.

Perhaps they'll introduce a wireless keyboard.

So I have to pay even more money? Yeah, $250 looks good for a console, but I'll have to spend almost another $120 on Wiimotes, another $170 for the nunchucks and classic controller, just to have a set of each controller for 4 people, another $30+ for a (cheap) wireless keyboard just to use the inconvenient internet add-on that I have to purchase so I don't have to constantly have to unplug my keyboard from my computer and then replug after I looked up YouTube videos for the family.

~$250+320=$570 Doesn't sound like a big deal to me anymore.

And before you ask, yes, I like to have enough controllers for when my friends come over that we can all take advantage of multiplayer games. So in order for me to get any use of the console when I have more than 2 friends with me, I'll have to have enough controllers for everyone to play. Kind of a big deal.

Luckily, all my friends seem to be getting one, so they can just cart theirs over :D

The Wii has USB ports. Maybe it will be able to use standard keyboards.

Pre-ordered it just now with LOZ: TP. :D

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Has footage of TP, may be a spolier to some people.
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If anyone is interested here as some reaction videos from the Wii official site.

http://uk.wii.com/exp/

People of different ages and from different countries trying it out for the first time.

most of those games look shitty

The sports game comes with the console, and as stated maybe 50,000 times before the console and its games are not about "zomg we got a 50,000 polygon tennis ball".

I like the sports game but cooking games? come on.

That boxing idea could be pretty badass if they do it right.

As far as I know it will be a case of punching with your left and right hands for real to punch with that hand on screen. And bringing your hands up or togethor to block. Both the wiimote and nunchuck have motion detectors and stuff inside them.

That has not left my DS in about a week!

got mine pre-ordered yesterday after calling like 20 stores, i found one that had one place... so happy :)

Pre-ordered mine a little while ago, hoping that the store do a midnight release cos I am so there!

Pre-ordered Zelda, Red Steel, an extra Nunchuku and Wiimote, as well as Excite Truck for the hell of it, THOUGH, when I got home the guy had wrote 'Side track' instead of Excite Truck, I was like wtf.

Only 47 days for us European's. :love:

Stop counting, it's making it seem further away. :(

I'm still waiting for Woolies to start taking pre-orders so I can take advantage of my mum's staff discount. But hey, at least they're being sensible and waiting until they can guarantee the amount of stock they'll receive.

I just Pre-ordered one here from Gamespot; I got the second to last one they had. Thing is, they're only getting 9. Crazy. They said they might get another shipment in before Christmas, but it would only be like 12 tops, and it wasn't because the store couldn't get anymore, but becusae Nintnedo produced so few. So apparently Nintendo is going for a small launch. Supply and Demand I guess.

Mkike why does it always feel like you're yelling?

Ow my frickin' ears. :(