So lets sum up the US Press Conference
● The Release date of Wii will be November 19th in the US
● The Price of Wii will be $250
● The Wii will come packed with WiiSports
- Wii Remote is $39.99. Nunchuck attachment is $19.99.
- Game listing for the americas -
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- No DVD Playback
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- Wii.com is now avaliable for the americas! The Japanese text in the earlier videos are now translated. English, French or Spanish is the choices
- Mii is an avatar creation system which allows you to create avatars. Take that concept and add the fact that you can store a handful of them into the wiimote memory and bring them to a friend's house and let them populate your friend's Wii. You can also let them populate your Wii games. So you can put the little Mii's in your game like Wii Tennis.
- At least three Virtual Console games will be online on launch day. By the end of the year there will be at least 30 legacy titles. Beginning in January that will grow 10 a month through the year. Price will be 500 Wii Points (or $5) for NES, 800 for SNES and 1,000 for N64
- You can buy a 2,000 Wii Points card at a store for $20. They will also be selling a Wii classic controller for playing the games.
- 2000 Wii points will be about $24 Canadian. Similar strategy in Mexico and other markets.
● Component cables included with Wii out of the box in the US
● Opera browser is free as a download until June 2007, after that you will have to pay
● Region free 1st-party titles, optional for 3rd-party devs
● The GCN version of the game was delayed until December 11th
● Tony Hawk: Downhill Jam, which is essentially SSX on pavement, also has some new screens to show off.
- Metroid Prime is going to be a 2007 title.
● Wii Sports. Packed in with every Wii, so you might as well get familiar with the game.
● Ubisoft's very own Red Steel is coming along...interestingly. Check out the less rewarding Yakuza in these screens. (1)
● Excite Truck, the spirtual successor to the Excite Bike series, is certainly looking blazingly fast and well, er, exciting.
● Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, the game where you make an ass of yourself to entertain your peers, is sharing the launch love.
● Surely Activision can't be left out... so it's bringing the Wii version of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance at launch.
● Atlus is probably the most surprising show at launch. Trauma Center Wii, which is essentially a "Wiimake" of the DS title according to the devs
● Super Monkey Ball Wii has a metric ton of mini-games - surprise surprise - as well as the classic gameplay. You tilt with wiimote, predictably enough.
● In Elebits, you toss around objects to try to find little electrical creatures. And you can do this competitively too. Seems quirky, in the Katamari kind of way.
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