The details from today's press conference in New York:
- The Wii will launch on Sunday, November 19th in North America and Saturday, December 2nd in Japan.
- The system will sell for $250 and come packaged with one Wiimote, one nunchuck attachment and a copy of Wii Sports.
- First Party games will cost $50. There will be 20 launch titles and 30 titles by the end of the year.
- It will NOT play DVD movies.
- Free online service, although none of the U.S. launch titles will be playable online. Web browsing available through a version of the Opera browser.
- Virtual Console will have 30 games available at launch. Prices will range from $5-$10.
- Extra Wiimotes will be $40, with nunchuck attachments and 'classic' controllers selling for $20
- Zelda - Twilight Princess will launch with the system, but Metroid has been delayed until 2007
Thoughts:
$250 with a pack-in game is a sweet deal, although $60 for an extra Wiimote-nunchuck combo is pretty steep.
No online games at launch is a bad sign.
$5 for NES games sounds a bit high until you realize that Microsoft is charging that for Pac-Man.
All in all this sounds like a great launch if they can deliver on anything close to what they have promised.
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