Additional Amazing Virtual Console Line-Up Confirmed
That's if you manage to have a Wii this coming Christmas
Reports are emerging today that demand for Nintendo’s Wii is going to far outstrip supply this coming Christmas season. Well, there’s a surprise. Not!
Play.com has already been shamefully guilty of cancelling pre-orders, with many receiving the following email in recent days:
"Dear Customer, due to a European shortage of the Nintendo Wii Consoles, we regret to inform you that Play.com will be unable to supply your pre-ordered Nintendo Wii at launch. We are guaranteed more stock before Christmas, but Nintendo have informed us, along with all other official Nintendo retailers, that the console will not be freely available until next year."
If you are busting for a Wii this December and haven’t yet pre-ordered, then it looks like you’d better get ready for some camping out in the cold. On that note, SPOnG is already hearing stories of PS3 queues forming outside Best Buys in California – NINE days before launch.
We’ll be trying to interview some of these crazy fools, who clearly have no lives or work or families to worry about, in the coming days.
SPOnG’s also hearing on the grapevine that N64 VC games will NOT feature force feedback (as per the classic Rumble Pak) as they will make use of the Wii’s Classic Controller, which has no rumble motor. More from Nintendo on this anon.
In more positive Wii news, SPOnG told you earlier this week about a bunch of confirmed Virtual Console titles for early 2007 as confirmed on the ESRB ratings website. A bunch more Nintendo classics have now been added to that list, which are:
• Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Kirby's Super Star (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64; rated E for Everyone)
• Starfox 64 (Nintendo 64; rated E for Everyone)
• Super Metroid (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Kirby's Dream Land 3 (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
• The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64; rated E for Everyone)
• Excitebike (NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Ice Climber (NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Dr. Mario (NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Mario Brothers (NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Ice Hockey (NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Soccer (NES; rated E for Everyone)
Impressive stuff we're sure you agree. To be fair, many if not most of the above were already known about or at least assumed/rumoured to be heading the way of the Virtual Console. But it’s still great news to see the above list and know that we’ll be playing most of those games again early in the New Year.
SPOnG will bring you exact dates and further Wii/Virtual Console news as we hurtle towards launch in the US (next week on Friday 17th) and Europe (on December 8th).
SPOnG’s U.S. stringers are primed and ready to give us full coverage of all the launch events shenanigans taking place in NYC and over on the west coast next week and we will, of course, bring you our detailed hands on previews and reviews of the full launch line-up of Wii software as soon as we can.
Play.com has already been shamefully guilty of cancelling pre-orders, with many receiving the following email in recent days:
"Dear Customer, due to a European shortage of the Nintendo Wii Consoles, we regret to inform you that Play.com will be unable to supply your pre-ordered Nintendo Wii at launch. We are guaranteed more stock before Christmas, but Nintendo have informed us, along with all other official Nintendo retailers, that the console will not be freely available until next year."
If you are busting for a Wii this December and haven’t yet pre-ordered, then it looks like you’d better get ready for some camping out in the cold. On that note, SPOnG is already hearing stories of PS3 queues forming outside Best Buys in California – NINE days before launch.
We’ll be trying to interview some of these crazy fools, who clearly have no lives or work or families to worry about, in the coming days.
SPOnG’s also hearing on the grapevine that N64 VC games will NOT feature force feedback (as per the classic Rumble Pak) as they will make use of the Wii’s Classic Controller, which has no rumble motor. More from Nintendo on this anon.
In more positive Wii news, SPOnG told you earlier this week about a bunch of confirmed Virtual Console titles for early 2007 as confirmed on the ESRB ratings website. A bunch more Nintendo classics have now been added to that list, which are:
• Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Kirby's Super Star (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Mario Kart 64 (Nintendo 64; rated E for Everyone)
• Starfox 64 (Nintendo 64; rated E for Everyone)
• Super Metroid (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Kirby's Dream Land 3 (Super NES; rated E for Everyone)
• The Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (Nintendo 64; rated E for Everyone)
• Excitebike (NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Ice Climber (NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Dr. Mario (NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Mario Brothers (NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Ice Hockey (NES; rated E for Everyone)
• Soccer (NES; rated E for Everyone)
Impressive stuff we're sure you agree. To be fair, many if not most of the above were already known about or at least assumed/rumoured to be heading the way of the Virtual Console. But it’s still great news to see the above list and know that we’ll be playing most of those games again early in the New Year.
SPOnG will bring you exact dates and further Wii/Virtual Console news as we hurtle towards launch in the US (next week on Friday 17th) and Europe (on December 8th).
SPOnG’s U.S. stringers are primed and ready to give us full coverage of all the launch events shenanigans taking place in NYC and over on the west coast next week and we will, of course, bring you our detailed hands on previews and reviews of the full launch line-up of Wii software as soon as we can.
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sohereweare 9 Nov 2006 13:29
1/5
To everyone in the UK...
if you can't get a Wii pre-order, try Woolworths, only been taking pre-orders for a week and a half and only 20% have gone.
This does 100% gurantee you a console!
if you can't get a Wii pre-order, try Woolworths, only been taking pre-orders for a week and a half and only 20% have gone.
This does 100% gurantee you a console!
Ditto 9 Nov 2006 13:51
2/5
I hope Mario RPG makes it to Europe. I want to play this game more than anything else on Wii!
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Dreadknux 9 Nov 2006 14:05
3/5
I still find it a little cheeky that the VC has region differences. I want Link to the Past on my Wii!
Ah well, when even the neutered Western VC lineup smashes the pants out of XBOX Live Arcade, who am I to complain?
Ah well, when even the neutered Western VC lineup smashes the pants out of XBOX Live Arcade, who am I to complain?
soanso 9 Nov 2006 15:17
4/5
I take it this is a list of US games as it's got the US rating system.
That would be cool if they were to release things like MArio RPG over here as it was never officially released in europe.
The thing about the VC games that bothers me is that they say they'll make turbographix games available here but have not said a word about games like Sin & Punishment.
The Turbo Graphix and PC Engine weren't released here so, why should they not make Japanese N64 games and Us Snes games available to everybody.
It's called "We" and it's meant to be all inclusive, so c;mon where is it man?!
That would be cool if they were to release things like MArio RPG over here as it was never officially released in europe.
The thing about the VC games that bothers me is that they say they'll make turbographix games available here but have not said a word about games like Sin & Punishment.
The Turbo Graphix and PC Engine weren't released here so, why should they not make Japanese N64 games and Us Snes games available to everybody.
It's called "We" and it's meant to be all inclusive, so c;mon where is it man?!
mrben43 10 Nov 2006 22:51
5/5
SPOnG’s also hearing on the grapevine that N64 VC games will NOT feature force feedback (as per the classic Rumble Pak) as they will make use of the Wii’s Classic Controller, which has no rumble motor.
What's this? Can we not use our Gamecube controllers to rumble? Or clip our Wii-motes onto the back of the Classic controller?