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All Nintendo Wii Launch Details

Check out everything announced about the Nintendo Wii launch! Including: Games, Launch Titles, Package Contents, Channels, and more!

dikturbo7193d ago (Edited 7193d ago )

This has to be the strongest console launch ever by any console. Look at the list of games and the definite support from virtually every 3rd party developer/publisher. It also appears as though they will have sufficient inventory to carry them through the Xmas season. I know that MS has spent a lot of time praising Nintendo for their innovation but that's what you do. Speaking negatively about your competitor is simply bad business (ahem SONY). MS is crapping their pants as much as SONY is about this console. Nintendo got their @ss kicked last round and clearly did their homework on this machine.

I was a die hard SEGA man and hated Nintendo (too childish) but being fully b/c with the old GC games, relatively inexpensive, Virtual Console and innovative gameplay, this machine is a 'must have' and could realisticly take the #1 position for next gen consoles.

I can't believe that it took a Nintendo machine to get me excited about playing games again. There will be one in my house. Guaranteed.

ChickeyCantor7193d ago

you cant hate one of them!!
both wur facking great :D

but this is al true...nintendo stated it self!

Sphinx7193d ago

...just as excited as you are, dikturbo!

wakkiwakko7193d ago

hahah yeees! Shame I can't buy one at launch :(

linkrocks77193d ago

anybody know how to get them?also will there be games from dreamcast{POWERSTONE!}

wakkiwakko7193d ago

How do you get points on market place for xbl? I think it's a simmilar idea. I don't know how market place works. :(

The Snake7192d ago

Either pay with a credit card on marketplace or buy a prepaid card from a retailer.

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Why the Wii is Such a Nostalgic System in 2026

The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.

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ActualWhiteMan33d ago (Edited 33d ago )

Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.

jznrpg32d ago

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.

Smellsforfree32d ago

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.

Loktai32d ago

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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Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire (1996) Still Feels Like Peak 90s Star Wars

Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.

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MayorPauline62d ago

This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆

Redgrave62d ago

Because it is.

Please re-release this.

SimpleSlave62d ago (Edited 62d ago )

But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.

Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.

Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.

shinXseijuro61d ago

As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .

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