system_error Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Yasuhiro Minagawa confirmed in an interview with Bloomberg that Nintendo will reveal the price and launch date of the Wii sometime in september. This come from Gamefront and so the reliability is quite high. Too late in my opinion ...
Hellfire Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Not very unexpected. It makes absolutely no difference when they anounce it, just as long as there's at least a month before launch.
Retro_Link Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Nintendo needs to be careful about the amount of buttons etc... they add to the Wii-mote and nun-chuck because the whole point of the Wii-mote was simplicity; to bring people back to games!
mario_jr Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 hmmm touche... maybe next time i wont put myself up as an authority on remote controls lol Haha, but the thing is that just because they exist does not make them useful. My friend has a TV with this type of remote and he says its a pain in the @ss. Even though he has had it for over a year.
djamb3 Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Kiyoshy made this comment regarding some games... (I don't know if he is true or not, but I like speculation...) 1)Nights 2 - in developement 2)Oblivion - not 3)Final Fantasy XIII - in early stages 4)Is there any possibility about Wii remakes for Final Fantasy VII-XII? - not likely at all 5)Mario Kart Wii is a brand new intallment or a port of the arcade game released by Nintendo and Namco last year? - it's brand new. It has some new gameplay as well, not just the same. But that's too early to talk about. 6)Is Far Cry indeed coming to wii?If yes,is it a portfrom the PC game,a port from the 360 game or a new installment? - It's under concideration because Wii is such a competent FPS console. 7)Is Kid Icarus Wii in development?Is Retro Studios responsible for the project?If not,who is the developer? - No it's not under developement. 8)Lastly,the latest rumoursfrom Japan say that Super Paper Mario and Donkey Kong Blast are delayed for gamecube and Nintendo considers to port them to wii or to release them in both GC and Wii just like Zelda TP.Is it any true? - Yeah it's under concideration but unlikely to happen. They will probably stay on GC.
DCK Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 3)Final Fantasy XIII - in early stagesThat made me laugh. There is absolutely no way that's ever going to happen. Seriously, an 'insider' answering like a big see-it-all like this is talking out of his ass. Any Nintendo employee that might be able to give insider information doesn't even know half of what's going on inside Nintendo, let alone Square Enix's darkest secrets.
Patch Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Not very unexpected. It makes absolutely no difference when they anounce it, just as long as there's at least a month before launch. Why a month, just out of interest?
system_error Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Why a month, just out of interest? A month is not enough in my eyes. Marketing, showing off the FINISHED games, ... basicly generating hype around the console for the casual gamers. It is enough for the price but not the release date. September announcement means november in Japan and again Nintendo launches after Sony. I am sure this will happen.
myster0n Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Nintendo's Wii may get early launch Industry observers expect company's new video game machine to launch before the PlayStation 3 - perhaps by a month or more. industry observers - and insiders - say they expect the system to be available in October, with late September a dark horse candidate. Read it here
conzer16 Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Yup already posted man! http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showpost.php?p=177354&postcount=139 I hope tis true!
myster0n Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Yup already posted man! http://www.revo-europe.com/forum/showpost.php?p=177354&postcount=139 I hope tis true! Oh ... OK ... Anyway, I just found a followup ... kind of : Nintendo wags finger at recent CNN rumor
DCK Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 It's probably just preproduction. MS had serious, serious shortages with two months of production before launch, so Nintendo will want double the preparation.
Owen Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 So it's kinda obvious the Wii is going to be released end-of October/middle of November everywhere! count down those days!
conzer16 Posted July 6, 2006 Posted July 6, 2006 Yeah it is isn't it. I mean Nintendo would be foolish to release it any later IMO.
phez_boy Posted July 7, 2006 Author Posted July 7, 2006 hey peeps and homes feast ur eyes on these rumors! http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=7241467&publicUserId=1002415 insider claims wii will launch on the september 22nd as to distract people from the PS3 at tgs. great idea if they can pull it off, otherwise grain of salt required.
SpinesN Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 Maybe nintendo will pull an apple and announce it and have it for sale the same day. So the wii sale date is.... today! Go grab one on your way out I can dream
mario_jr Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 Maybe nintendo will pull an apple and announce it and have it for sale the same day. I can dream people would literally die, not from the shock but from being crushed to death.:shock:
zora_prime Posted July 7, 2006 Posted July 7, 2006 5)Mario Kart Wii is a brand new intallment or a port of the arcade game released by Nintendo and Namco last year? - it's brand new. It has some new gameplay as well, not just the same. But that's too early to talk about. hey I just had a thought... Double Dash would work well with wiimote: with wimote you point with a char on the back to fire shells 'n' other stuff and B to fire a weapon, and with nunchuk you control a driver - analog stick for movement, Z for hop, C for acceleration and since nunchuk also has gyro in it you could twist a nunchuk for brakes
phez_boy Posted July 11, 2006 Author Posted July 11, 2006 hey guys new rumors on launch! perhaps sometime in october? http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/rumor-wii-games-bumped-up-console-hits-october-186317.php
DCK Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 That's an odd move. Sounds to me that Chrystal Chronicles might not make it to launch; at least that's the title I'm expecting it to be. It's been very quiet around the game and it's supposed to be a launch title, but I doubt it.
SimpleSimon Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Hi, I am posting this in the rumours thread as it is probably the best place for it. I have great info on the Wii and I am pretty sure this hasn't been reported anywhere else. In fact, I can't believe that this information has come my way and it's taken something this big for me to sign up with a Revo-Europe account as I have been visiting this site for years but never actually contributed. I don't expect you all to believe me as I know what you will probably think as this is my first post but I know what I have seen and hope that in a few months time when this is proven true, my post will be on here as proof ! Big Nintendo fan here, so when I came across this I almost bricked it. I worked for a pretty big media company in London. Well I did until I a few weeks back when I moved companies and now that I'm doing something completely different I can't see me getting in any trouble for this. Please note that although it was a media company, I didn't actually work for anything media related at all. And I never signed no NDA as my job was totally unrelated and I came across this completely by accident. Anyway, my old company only really did a few projects for Nintendo, none of them major. In the past I have seen Nintendo DS VIP boxes as well as various in-store promotional material. But nothing particularly major and probably lots of things I don't know about. I know they got a big contract earlier this year from a major software company and I can only presume this is Nintendo based on what I have seen. Anyway, sometimes as part of my job I had to work in different offices and there was this one time when I saw Nintendo box designs showing the Wii. This was before E3 but not long before and I am pretty sure they were incomplete or just prototypes. But I know in one office I saw box designs with both the Wii and DS Lite on the same packaging. I can only assume from this that Nintendo are planning some kind of duel console deal. I also saw several box designs which had a Wii on them and then in one corner a game which I think was Metroid Prime, Zelda and Wii Sports but it was called Wii Play then so I don't know if they changed the name or are going to change the name. All I know is what I saw ! There was a camera on one of the boxes and I think it was external but I didn't get much time to look at that one. But the best thing by far I saw was some kind of "standards" brochure that had been produced. I think this may have been a Nintendo thing but it was very well presented but pretty technical and didn't look like something for consumers. Now I barely looked at this as I was bricking it that someone would walk in on me but it showed what I can only describe as TV's, PC's, DVD Players and other household devices that had Wii logos on them (a bit like the ATI badge on the Gamecube). They weren't Nintendo products or anything like that, I don't think Nintendo are about to start making TV's. What I got from the document and the bits of text I read is that the Wii itself isn't just a console but some kind of technology which hardware manufacturers can add to their devices which, I think, allows those devices to basically have built in Wii consoles. So the chipset can basically be added to TV's and the like by the manufacturer. Kind of like a TV might have a Freeview tuner or a built in DVD player. I don't know if this is the hardware secret that Nintendo are holding off on announcing but it's pretty significant if Nintendo intend to promote the Wii as more of a cross device technology than just another console, and something that anyone can license to include in their electronic device. The weird thing is that it didn't really click at the time because this was before the Wii name was announced and I didn't think they would ever choose a name like that. Only when I saw the Wii name up in lights did I actually believe that what I saw was genuine and not just experimental stuff. So there you go, make of it what you may. I hope somebody finds this interesting. I am glad to get this off my chest as I have been bursting at the seams and checking the games news (and this thread!!!) every day waiting for this stuff to be announced before I finally gave in and got the courage to post somewhere. Thanks for reading.
SpinesN Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 ^ Bullshit. That goes against the whole "we are a gaming company" moto that nintendo lives by.
Blue_Ninja0 Posted July 11, 2006 Posted July 11, 2006 Interesting, but i can't see nintendo doing that.
djamb3 Posted July 12, 2006 Posted July 12, 2006 That goes with their plan of having one wii in every household.something standard like a dvd player. HOwever... Nintendo never made (or thought in) anything like this before. But Nintendo is changing.More than we can thing about... Let's wait.I'll not believe.But won't say this is fake.
phez_boy Posted July 12, 2006 Author Posted July 12, 2006 i like your theory simon. and im sure time will tell us if there is any truth to this. anyway u could get us some physical proof? or just perhaps some more in-depth info?
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