Posted September 14, 200619 yr comment_7633 Breaking news: The Nintendo Wii will be released on November 19'th, 2006 for about $250. It will be confirmed by Nintendo Thursday morning. It will have the game "Wii Sports" packed in for free. It will allow web surfing right on your tv and it will have an interactive news channel and an interactive weather channel. This is very disappointing news for most, I am sure. It will come out AFTER the PS3, thus showing Nintendo once again broke a promise. They promised all along it would "not be released after the other 2 main consoles this time" yet indeed it will be. It will come out 2 days after the PS3. The PS3 will be out on November 17'th, which is a Friday. For some reason the Nintendo Wii will be released 2 days later, on a Sunday! This is the first Nintendo console since the NES to have a game included with it at launch. The Zelda game will still be released at the same time, I believe. However, now there will be no Mario game of any kind until 2007. There will be MANY more Wiis in stores than PS3s however. The PS3 will only have 400,000 units at launch and 2 million by the end of the year. Nintendo will have 4 million Wiis shipped by the end of the year. So rather than the console being 1 month away, as reported by some, it will now be more than 2 months away. But at least a release date has finally been announced... More info will be released later today (Thursday). I will place it in the video games sectionm but this was a breaking news story, so for now I put this in the news section. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6157572.html?...aking_news;link edit: more details: 1. U.S. gets Wii before Japan. It will be released on December 2'nd, 2006 in Japan. 2. The virtual console games will cost $5-$10, while Wii games will cost $50, rather than the $60 that most xbox 360 and PS3 games will cost. 3. There will be channels, including the news and weather channels, a "Mii" channel to make yourself a character and transfer it to your controller to take to other people's houses, and a photo channel to display digital photos. 4. The web browser built into it will be Opera. http://wii.ign.com/articles/732/732669p1.html
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