Nintendo's Wii is to arrive in Korea this spring after a long wait from game fans.
The official launch of the game player may rattle the Korean game industry, which has been dominated by locally made online games that run on personal computers.
The usually reticent Nintendo Korea refused to confirm the release date. But it was found that the company had applied for the rating of its two best-selling Wii games, Wii Sports and Wii Play Wii, last week with the Game Rating Board ? a strong sign that the launch is imminent probably before Children's Day, which falls on May 5. In separate applications, Acitivision, an American game software company, also received ratings for its two Wii games in Korea last week.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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It's a step forward for Stop Killing Games.
In the land of MMO.
here we come!!
Have the other consoles already been released in Korea?
North or South Korea?