Topic: Official Wii Events thread

[wandering]

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08:21:19 - Another channel “became a must after its reception in LA”. The character creation stuff.

ign affects Nintendo's decisions after all.

[wandering]

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Wii will have its own range of Touch Generation software too. Although he's just buggered off the stage, so who knows what they'll be.

13:25 - Ah! Logan's back and she's showing us Tennis. She's bandying around the names 'Tim Henman' and 'Greg Rezetski' - a name I've never needed to spell before. Logan's just spend a good five minutes hunting around for a bunch of avatars bearing likenesses to them. And now the curtains have just whizzed open and there's a fake tennis court on stage! Guess who's there! Yup, REAL LIVE TENNIS STARS!

YAY!

[Dasmos]

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Originally posted by: wandering
Quality over quantity is my motto.

then how do you explain your posting style?

[wandering]

Actually, that was just something I made up to cover the fact that most of my posts are first party.

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13:29 - My fingers are starting to hurt now. ANYWAY, there's a game of - ohmygodyou'dneverhaveguessed - Wii Tennis going on now against Tim and Greg and Fischer and Shibata. It's all a RIGHT LARK. Incidentally, hilARIous incident earlier - one of Tim Henman's balls flew off the stage and nearly gave the person behind me concussion just after I posted the last update. Back to the game though: Tim and Greg are losing with 30-15. 30-30 now. Tell you what, I'll just post again when we have a clear winner.

[wandering]

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14:33.05 - 30-30. Tim’s serving. Decent rally this time, and Greg wins it. Game point. “Nintendo’s gone mad,” my friend says (Eurogamer)

So have I, friend. So have I.

[Mario]

Hahaha this tennis match will generate huge press over there. Wii is gonna be HUGE.

PS Nothing new will be announced here.

[Mario]

WHOA!! Europe gets Wii Play Awesome I hope we do as well!

[wandering]

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13:35 - Somewhat embarrassingly, I was just staring at the ceiling so I have no idea who won. Sorry. AH! European launch specifics. Launch games first! Wii Sports, Wii Play - which enables novices to get the hang of the controller. It'll be bundled with a second controller. Just like the Japanese 'My First Wii' package in fact. Zelda too, obviously Wario Ware will arrive 'just after launch'.

13:38 - Tony Hawk, Rayman, Red Steel, Monkey Ball coming from thirdparties amongst other things.

13:39 - WII LAUNCH DETAILS: European launch date December 8 2006, priced at £179 (249 Euros). Package will include console, Wiimote, nunchuck, cables and all that jazz. Oh and Wii Sports. Er, games will cost £35 - £39 in the UK and 49-59 Euros elsewhere. Europe, for example. Sorry about the slackness there. I was updating two places at once.

$249 euros! That's like, I don't know what that is! It's too early in the morning for me to make jokes!

[Mario]

NO EXCITE TRUCK? COME ON!

[wandering]

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13:44 - Right, with that bit of frenzied excitement out the way, we've moved onto that Wii games trailer that was doing the rounds on the Japanese website yesterday. Incidentally, it looks a bit more impressive when it's blown up slightly bigger than the size of a postage stamp.

The Wii is capable of impressive graphics. MEGATON!

[wandering]

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They're showing another video now. Looks like....someone with wings, flying. OMG it isn't. Kid Icarus Wii! It's looking incredible! Flying through a city, shooting bad guys with arrows. DECEMBER 2006!

....ha ha. Just kidding.

[wandering]

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12:47 - And with one last crescendo of music, Iwata has reappeared on stage. The words "Wii move you" are dangling provocatively over his head. He's inviting us to go try the damn thing out for ourselves. And - gasp - a huge gaping chasm has opened in the wall behind him and everyone's being sucked through, like huge electronically-obsessed sheep. Or something. You know, if we'd thought about it, we would have said 'Iwata is inviting us to play with his Wii'. AHAHAHAHAHahhahahahaha. God, I kill me sometimes.

Apparently I'm not the only one who's not funny in the morning!

[GoldenPhoenix]

I still wonder how that March 2007 release date got put up, could they have been confusing PS3 with Wii? I mean they are so much alike and all

[Kairon]

Wandering, your sanity meter is showing.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[couchmonkey]

I have to applaud Nintendo for the most world-widest launch of any system so far (though Xbox 360 came pretty close).

[ShyGuy]

Nintendo ignores Mars for simultaneous launch, Martians are rioting in the canals.