* Wii costs $250, comes with Wii Sports and will release on Nov. 19th.
    * "Nintendo intends to charge $50 for its Wii games, $10 less than the standard price for Xbox 360 titles and the same price generally charged for GameCube games." http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/285027_nintendo14.html
    * "Nintendo plans to announce today that about 30 classic games will be available for download when the Wii is released, including ones from the "Zelda," "Mario" and "Donkey Kong" franchises. Downloadable games will cost about $5 to $10 each." http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/285027_nintendo14.html
    * There will be new multimedia functions, one a photo channel where you can view digital photos, a news and weather channel, and a Opera enabled web browser. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/285027_nintendo14.html
    * Nintendo said it plans to ship 4 million Wii units worldwide by the end of the year.
    * Virtual Console payments: credit card + Wii Point Pre-Paid Card
    * VC Prices: NES 5,000 yen, SNES 8,000 yen, N64 10,000 yen
    * Famitsu reports 30 Nintendo games and 30 PC Engine/Megadrive (Turbo-Grafx/Genesis) games before end of year. Ten new virtual console games every month!
    * 3 MSX games for VC in the works
    *  Famitsu is reporting a December 2 launch and 25,000 yen price for Japan
    *  The press release is up. It lists the contents of the Wii box: Wii console, Wii remote (w/ strap) Nunchuck attachment, Wii AC adaptor, Wii A/V cable, Wii console stand, sensor bar, sensor bar stand and two AA batteries. Also, it seems the 25,000 yen price includes tax.
    * Zelda confirmed for Japanese Launch.
    * Pokemon is a Japanese Wii launch game.
    * Brain Age Wii confirmed.
    * Video showing a ton of games!!! http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/wii_preview/movie/lineup.html
    * Japan Wii website up http://wii.com/jp/.  Shows interface and tons of videos!
    * WiiConnect24 will feature a BBS-like message board system that can cross-post to and from cell phones, computers and other Wii consoles.
    * Zelda and Pokemon trailers http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/wii_preview/presentation/12.html
    * List of Japan launch games and more http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3153628
    * The classic controller is about $15 US
    * Zelda confirmed launch game, GC version on Dec 11
    * Gunstar Heroes, Punchout and duck hunt all confirmed launch VC games
    * Metroid Prime 3 delayed till next year
    * Pokemon is first online game
    * Wiimote costs $40 and Nunchuck costs $20. Sold seperately
    * Zelda, SMW and Mario 64 all confirmed launch VC games.

249.99 USD United States Dollars    Ã‚£132.368 GBP

You get all the cables and machine, sensor bar, one controler one nun-chuck
It will be only white

$39.99 for a controler
$19.99 for a nun-chuck

w11t!

No news on a uk release though?

Still watching the feed, bowling at the moment

Loooong game box, quite nice (again note Nintendo showing packaging, it may sound silly but i have said this before, if your done and ready you release your packaging, Sony have not on ps3

NoE expected to announce UK release tomorrow at the London Convention.

I wonder what the sensor bar is?
edit: it seems its teh IR reciever

Pre-ordering mine asap.

W00r.  Nice post but probably have been easier to just post something like this...

http://uk.gamespot.com/events/wiilaunch/index.html?tag=topslot;action;1

Saves you typing every bit of news again.

W00r.  Nice post but probably have been easier to just post something like this...

http://uk.gamespot.com/events/wiilaunch/index.html?tag=topslot;action;1

Saves you typing every bit of news again.

but not many people on these forums bother to go links and fish out the information themselfs

No read the first post DH, £130ish UK Sterling on release. With all that is included in box, im hopeing that it will come with HD cables. Getting a new HD TV for my 21st so dont want to have to fuss around. Deffently going to get another controller on release along with zelda and a few other games for that price I would say £250ish im willing to spend on it at release


Ohhh and N64 VM yesssss please

I expect that £130 is just a direct conversion from $ and the actual price will need VAT added on top.

I have seen £170 suggested by one of the Nintendo people as a European price.

Apparently it doenst do DVD playback, but I guess thats no biggie.