For obvious looking reasons, it seems that BigN is going to be The Conduit's Publisher.
1) High Voltage still hasn't released the publisher's name....
2) WiiSpeak seems to have been approved for a while before E3 since HV jumped at it @ E3 while both Wii motion plus and WiiSpeak were announced at the same time.
3)Wii Friend codes are most probably going to stay, coming from the horse's mouth.
4) No DLC... since Nintendo hasn't come out with a storage solution and The Conduit's release is pretty soon.
5) Nintendo needs this game, first to appease the hardcore gamers and to increase their library, and also the xbox price drop might actually put a small dent on their plans...
I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo release a price reduced black Wii, including a Counduit and Wiispeak bundle.... that would be sweet....huh?
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For Southeast Asia, new price changes.
Prices effective starting May 1st, 2026.
Replies(1)Looks like PlayStation took a hit with Marathon and is now quietly adjusting prices worldwide to recover the losses
Lets be honest raising prices doesn't do that when no one's buying it. I imagine the profit it greater selling 10 times more at a lower price
The price increases are due to the RAM demand associated with AI and the US-Iran war. You can look to any business news website and local news to see that. Heck, even the 2026 Asus Zenbook Duo I've been eyeing has faced delays and has had a price increase of $400; that laptop has two specs. Asus is doing a staggered release with per-orders for the lower spec now and shipping in May and pre-orders for the higher spec that I'm eyeing starting in June. Basically, all computer manufactures are affected. It'll most likely start affecting smart phones too if it hasn't already. I can't remember the last time any major console maker (Nintendo, Sony, Sega, etc) increased the price of their console mid cycle outside of Microsoft just to make more profit.
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nintendo really need games of higher quality than what 3rd party developers present. as I can remember the last good game on wii -other than 1st party games- is no more heroes & recently de blob.
The Conduit is looking really good, I hope that nintendo will do something.
update: WM+ has been added to The Conduit...
HVS got those development kits pretty quick...:)
point 4 is flawed, doesn't GH or RB have DLC even for wii?
"Nintendo needs this game, first to appease the hardcore gamers and to increase their library"
increasing their library is already happening.
Now that the big N has given a storage solution maybe there will be DLC. Only sucky thing will be friend codes though. If Nintendo is the Publisher than maybe Mr.Ford could appear as a assit trophy or playable character in the new SSB!
I can only see Nintendo being the eventual publisher, tbh it's been looking likely for a while as I thought if the Conduit looked promising it would be pretty unwise of Ninty not to support a dev that decided to build for Wii alone from the ground up. Lets be straight here-The Conduit is starting to look the most likely candidate to become the game that finally nails what we all expected when we first saw the motion controls all that time ago-and that's a truly great FPS with(hopefully) online performance to match.
IDK about the bundle idea. this hasn't seemed a Nintendo tactic of late and is the Conduit well known enough outside this type of circle to yet be a great console shifting game? I hope it becomes a franchise capable of doing that but , for me, it's still waay too early. Does look really good though.