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Wii to Launch in Holiday Quarter

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

May 9, 2006, 2:13 PM

Nintendo said Tuesday that it will make its next-generation console, dubbed the Nintendo Wii, available in the fourth quarter of this year. The timing of the console means its release will occur at roughly the same time as Sony's PlayStation 3, expected to launch on November 17 in North America.

Nintendo of America's executive vice president Reggie Fils-Aime made the announcement at the company's press conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. Fils-Aime declined to specify pricing, saying instead that those details would be provided later this year. To support the launch of the Wii, Nintendo will be making available the next installment of the "Legend of Zelda" series, he said.

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By Crispy777

posted May 11, 2006 - 11:53 PM

I'm buying one. And four controllers.

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By fewt

edited May 10, 2006 - 3:24 PM

Can you imagine?

"Dude, I've got Mario on my WII! Who cares, I've got Zelda on MY WII!"

Oh boy, I like Nintendo but what are they thinking?

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By alanpalmer

posted May 10, 2006 - 3:06 PM

Did Nintendo leak this news to the press? What's urinalysis of this?

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By UTAKER

posted May 10, 2006 - 6:43 AM

Always been a nintendo fan just because they focus on pure "Entertainment w.r.t. Games" Nintendo does it quite well. I am not interested in if the console could play movies, dvds, mp3s, bla blah, it is Games and "Fun" and Nintendo has amazed me with this new upcoming console too, and the prior games were quite amusing and entertaining and the upcoming ones seem to be worth it.
Gonna get it when it is available.

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By fewt

posted May 9, 2006 - 6:47 PM

I just have to ask wii?

heh

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By Bobbitchin

posted May 10, 2006 - 1:54 PM

Yes Wii, as in "Mommy I gotta go Wii Wii". ;p

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By Skyfrog

posted May 9, 2006 - 5:25 PM

Their E3 conference was impressive.

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By bourgeoisdude

edited May 9, 2006 - 8:51 PM

VERY much so from the videos I saw. Fantastic controllers--makes the PS3 controller look like a kid's toy. Before you disagree, well Tom thought the same thing: http://www.tgdaily.com/2...oller_wimpy_against_wii/

Man...after seeing this, I might actually consider buying a 'Wii' console. Man, Nintendo really screwed up the name, but the game looks frikin awesome. I'm sure the price will be too. Since I don't plan to buy the supercalafragisexy HDTV multimegamaxi3D resolution supervisions (1080p), I could care less about the fact that it is only 480p.

Man, amazing how quickly my mind changed about the winner of the 7th gen. console wars--Nintendo may grab the majority right under our noses. Kinda sneaky--I like it!

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By itanshi

posted May 9, 2006 - 5:18 PM

hey getting the whole back catalogue of not just nintendo, but sega and turbografx

c'mon, this is a good system and th einternet is free

you also have ports for game cube controllers

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By kholdstare

posted May 9, 2006 - 4:46 PM

and one again a website gets overrun by 13 year olds who haven't hit puberty yet

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By M.Sweazey

posted May 9, 2006 - 8:17 PM

you have just defined the standard upwards from what I would have guessed! ;-)

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By rijp

posted May 9, 2006 - 4:24 PM

Haven't found a decent game on Nintendo since the Supernintendo and Contra! Now that was a game..

But other games are much better now, but Nintendo, I don't find anything "entertaining" about it, since Metroid went 3-D.

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By SorenMD

posted May 9, 2006 - 3:01 PM

it better have wavebird support because nobody I know likes the "TV remote" controllere style.

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By GhoS

posted May 9, 2006 - 9:16 PM

It will have Wavebird support for Gamecube games. But I would imagine most Wii games will take advantage of the new Wiiremote. I wouldn't knock it till you try it. It seems to really open up the possibilities of getting involved the games more instead of mindlessly punching buttons. I think its worth considering trying something new than the same old thing generation after generation. Games need to grow to remain popular, not stay stuck in the mud as basically Sony and MS seem to think. Graphics are only one aspect of gameplay.

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By coryma

edited May 9, 2006 - 2:46 PM

Wii as in W-2 (tax form) or Wii as in Wheeeeee?!

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By Joe Dirt

edited May 9, 2006 - 3:01 PM

I also would like to know the answer to this.

Is it "wheeeeeee" or "why" or "DoulbleYou Two"?

Never name something a name that people will not be able to figure out how to pronouce. Idiots.

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By jshurst

edited May 9, 2006 - 3:24 PM

It's like "weeee". It was in another article on betanews a while back.

(didn't see the previous post ;-)

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By pjlasl

posted May 9, 2006 - 3:10 PM

from a previous betanews article it is pronounced WE

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By Stormprobe

edited May 9, 2006 - 3:48 PM

"We"

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By The Man

posted May 9, 2006 - 2:42 PM

lol
can't get over the name. (snicker, snicker)
but...im gonna grab my wii when it comes out and play with it. ;-)

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By fewt

edited May 9, 2006 - 6:49 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I bet you'll rush home to play with your wii!

LOL

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By bourgeoisdude

posted May 9, 2006 - 4:19 PM

Gosh man, that's just wrong...

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By eoswald

posted May 9, 2006 - 10:06 PM

Glad to see the maturity of our readers :) But god, they were asking for it with a name like that LOL

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By iamtux

posted May 9, 2006 - 2:25 PM

Finally, a solid date for the release and the new Zelda game following it! Great! Can't wait.

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By Skyfrog

posted May 9, 2006 - 5:29 PM

Yeah, new Zelda on release day for both the Wii and Gamecube. It looks awesome too.

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