Japanese Wii preview, from TGS

[Furyo]

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/wi ... ineup.html

Not high res, but cool nonetheless

[skdr]

More here:

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/43841

Looks like it's going to cost $250.

[Ginger Lord]

November 19th for US

December 2nd for Japan

Europe not set yet.

Woo.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5344510.stm

[Furyo]

I was told Europe was Nov. 24th

[skdr]

I was told Europe was Nov. 24th

That'd be awesome.

When is PS3 launching in US?

[Ginger Lord]

November 11th

[Mazy]

Im pretty sure they wont pull a PS3, but I bet the European launch will probably fall in the beginning of December (Like the 360's).

[Thrik]

This Wii channels stuff is very nice. I'm a lazy bollock so just read my post if you haven't read about it yet.

Opera (internet browser) is also free if you download it via the download channel before June 2007, which is hot. It even comes with Javascript and Flash, so you could theoretically do anything you can on your PC browser. Obviously it's not a direct replacement since you'll be using a virtual keyboard and shit, but it'd be nice for checking your Gmail and stuff instead of getting the PC going.

Heck, you could even dick around with some Flash games while laid on your sofa, or go through a web-based RSS feed reader like Bloglines. I can definitely see the browser being useful.

[ReFlex]

Oh, the new zelda looks cool!

[skdr]

http://wii.ign.com/articles/732/732764p1.html

D:?!

[ctswin]

we must pray that it is wrong D:

[Mazy]

Haha, would be brilliant if they did though, then the 360 would a half year of no next gen competition in Europe (Not that I think it would mean that much in the end).

I seriously doubt its true though, I heard Reggie saying "Global Launch", but recent developments seem like they forget Europe when they say worldwide launch

[ctswin]

If it is true, i'd kinda like microsoft to 'win' in Europe this time around, and hopefully that'd show everyone else they need to sort it out and launch here within a couple of weeks max

still, i hope it's not true, because a wii christmas with friends could be brilliant

[MJ]

hahaha poor euros..

[ReNo]

I read in Metro this morning that the Wii is going to be released in time for Christmas and priced at £115 here in the UK - ridiculously low, yay!

But then I remembered that they aren't confirming their euro release details until this afternoon. A quick check on some of the major game sites doesn't reveal any other claims of this tiny little price point, so to be honest I've no idea where Metro got their news from. Only that isn't quite true - I've a sneaking suspicion that they may have taken the information about the Japanese launch and simply converted the price - which comes out at a pretty close £113. If so, somebody needs to tell whoever wrote that article that it doesn't work like that!

So hey, maybe they have an actual source and today all us Euro's will be in for some pleasant news, but something tells me the price is gonna be closer the £150+ mark since we always get a little shafted for price here.