Whilst the Internet is beside itself with gossip and rumour regarding Nintendo and the launch of its new generation console, Wii (Calm down, dear! You’ll have a Wii by Christmas) the first believable reports are now emerging, suggesting that the date could even be as early as late September.
CNN Money’s Chris Morris reports that the system is to be available in October, “...with late September a dark horse candidate.”
PJ McNealy of American Technology Research noted back on June 21 that Nintendo was already manufacturing final Wii retail units. "October is a reasonable timeframe," McNealy said.
The CNN report is largely based on industry insiders who wished to remain anonymous, which - were this your average fanboy blog - SPOnG would have dismissed off-handedly. But as it’s CNN Money, the report has to be taken more seriously.
So it looks like there is a good chance that there will be a plentiful supply of affordable Wii’s on the shelves a good month before there is a very limited supply of expensive PlayStation 3’s on the shelves. In the US at least.
If past console launches are anything to go buy UK gamers can expect to be snapping up their Wii (Heh! Still funny – Ed) sometime around Christmas. Christmas 2007.
Read SPOnG's preview of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz - our most anticipated Wii title - right here. And keep it locked for more official news from Nintendo on all things Wii, as soon as we get it.
CNN Money’s Chris Morris reports that the system is to be available in October, “...with late September a dark horse candidate.”
PJ McNealy of American Technology Research noted back on June 21 that Nintendo was already manufacturing final Wii retail units. "October is a reasonable timeframe," McNealy said.
The CNN report is largely based on industry insiders who wished to remain anonymous, which - were this your average fanboy blog - SPOnG would have dismissed off-handedly. But as it’s CNN Money, the report has to be taken more seriously.
So it looks like there is a good chance that there will be a plentiful supply of affordable Wii’s on the shelves a good month before there is a very limited supply of expensive PlayStation 3’s on the shelves. In the US at least.
If past console launches are anything to go buy UK gamers can expect to be snapping up their Wii (Heh! Still funny – Ed) sometime around Christmas. Christmas 2007.
Read SPOnG's preview of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz - our most anticipated Wii title - right here. And keep it locked for more official news from Nintendo on all things Wii, as soon as we get it.
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majin dboy 6 Jul 2006 13:15
1/7
are u f**king serious?xmas 2007.i am not waiting that long for a Wii.does anyone know if there will be region lock on the games?i already have a step-down transformer for my NTSC GC.
Monkton 6 Jul 2006 14:37
2/7
To answer your question, no, they aren't serious.
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zoydwheeler 6 Jul 2006 14:53
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no of course it's not serious, though I'd put money on there being an annoying delay to get hold of Wii in Europe, if for no other reason than Nintendo's shocking track-record in making us Brits wait and wait to get the goods...
OptimusP 6 Jul 2006 15:52
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Don't you mean the track-record of every gamehardware developing company ever for sticking up Europe even if we are the bloody largest market in the world...
Besides...PS3 has a bigger realistic chance of launching in xmas 2007 then does the Wii...waaaay bigger!
Besides...PS3 has a bigger realistic chance of launching in xmas 2007 then does the Wii...waaaay bigger!
crs117 6 Jul 2006 16:14
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OptimusP wrote:
Don't you mean the track-record of every gamehardware developing company ever for sticking up Europe even if we are the bloody largest market in the world...
Huh??? Not by a long shot. The US market constitutes a much larger gamer base than Europe. If i am wrong i would love to see some links proving otherwise.
OptimusP 6 Jul 2006 16:51
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Did i say gamer base... i didn't... i said the EU is the largest market in the world...as in the biggest economical power of the world.
If they didn't stick us up so much and would apply correct exchange rates on our prizes we would probably have the biggest gamerbase too!
If they didn't stick us up so much and would apply correct exchange rates on our prizes we would probably have the biggest gamerbase too!
tyrion 6 Jul 2006 17:05
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crs117 wrote:
Huh??? Not by a long shot. The US market constitutes a much larger gamer base than Europe. If i am wrong i would love to see some links proving otherwise.
Well, according to the CIA there are more people living in the countries of the European Union than there are in the USA by quite a margin.
How many of those people are gamers is another matter. Certainly there have been more PS2s sold in North America than in Europe and PAL regions, but with "North America" also including Canada, that could mean anything.