Nintendo Wii launch date - Dec 8th

Daren · September 2006

?179, and comes bundled with Wii Sports.

A shed load of games for launch too, including Zelda - Twilight Princess

http://ms.nintendo-europe.com/wii/?l=enGB

Excellent news to come back from holiday to.

mile · September 2006

i will be waiting for january sales with that one. see if the do an offer.

xfa84 · September 2006

Cool! That Zelda game looks awesome. Can't wait to have a blast on that.
I hope it doesn't turn out a disappointment like The Wind Waker. That was far
too easy and sailing around that boat for hours really did my head in.

VincentAC · September 2006

This is one console I'm really looking forward to.

But we'll probably wait a while until the price comes down a bit or we can get it 2nd hand from a numpty who doesn't like it :-D

mile · September 2006

if you want my advice wait till the PS3 is about to be launched (march i think)
nintendo will try to take advantage and do a price drop just before. (that's what i'd do if i ran nintendo anyway)

Daren · September 2006

xfa84 wrote:

Cool! That Zelda game looks awesome. Can't wait to have a blast on that.
I hope it doesn't turn out a disappointment like The Wind Waker. That was far
too easy and sailing around that boat for hours really did my head in.

I thought WW was pretty good, and I had to Google a couple of things when I got stuck :-)

TP promises to be nothing short of awesome. Nintendo themselves have said it's the most beautiful game they've ever created. Here's a couple of trailers:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=195595950429433283
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4064276288938239585

ewgf · September 2006

Daren wrote:

I thought WW was pretty good, and I had to Google a couple of things when I got stuck :-)

Try gamefaqs.com if you're ever stuck in a game, or for a forum for each game. Sadly they don't cover the Speccy, but then WOS is the best site on the net anyway, so that's alright:)

xfa84 · September 2006

Daren wrote:

I thought WW was pretty good, and I had to Google a couple of things when I got stuck :-)

TP promises to be nothing short of awesome. Nintendo themselves have said it's the most beautiful game they've ever created. Here's a couple of trailers:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=195595950429433283
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4064276288938239585

Cool trailers! It really does look like something special. This sort of game is
right up my alley (ooer!). I bet the bosses will be great and totally original, like most Nintendo games really.

chop983 · September 2006

xfa84 wrote:

Cool! That Zelda game looks awesome. Can't wait to have a blast on that.
I hope it doesn't turn out a disappointment like The Wind Waker. That was far
too easy and sailing around that boat for hours really did my head in.

Yeah it was way to easy, and I can't believe Famitsu gave it a perfect 40/40

zeropolis79 · September 2006

Wind Waker was a resonable difficulty level. The Japanese edition had more levels, dungeons and bosses vus more difficult.

Thanks to Amy's sister who works at a game shop, I had mine pre-ordered five months ago.

Daren · September 2006

zeropolis79 wrote:

The Japanese edition had more levels, dungeons and bosses vus more difficult.

Have you got any details on these additions? As far as I know they're the same, content-wise.

The walkthrough on the official Nintendo site doesn't mention any additions for the Japanese version:
http://www.nintendo.com/strategygallery?gameid=m-Game-0000-823

Also, the Wikipedia article mentions no differences, and neither do the FAQs at GameFAQs.com:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/gamecube/game/469050.html

zeropolis79 · September 2006

This is what I've heard.. I've not got that far yet to see any difference - been too busy to load anything on the Gamecube.

US and UK sites aren't likely to include walkthroughs for Japanese versions..

Daren · September 2006

There do appear to be some differences in the Japanese version of WW, according to this post:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube/msg/68ed3d1a341d1e7e

There are slight changes to the map. In the Jap version the Ghost ship is not shown, you have to look at the moon's phases to work out yourself where it is.

"Also, there were some changes to take out some tedious bits, like a series
of treasure chests that just gave you maps to other treasure chests. In the
NA version, the first chest just gives you the map to the last chest in that
chain."

Here's another post giving a bit more info:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.games.video.nintendo.gamecube/msg/2a0a88bac0c53eac?dmode=source

However, there's nothing to indicate extra dungeons or bosses.

Daren · September 2006

Reet, that's the Wii pre-ordered from Gamestation for a ?20 deposit. They're doing a midnight opening, which is nice. Looks like I'll be throwing a sickie on the Friday...

mile · September 2006

i never trust pre orders. i pre orderd ocarina of time, and when i went down as soon as the shop opened, they said they had sold out and weren't getting any in till the next week. wankers. a few kids were gettting really upset, not to mention the mums and dads.

i had to hang around half an hour till smiths opened, and bought my copy there.

(i wonder if my copy of zelda is still there gathering dust?)

zeropolis79 · September 2006

I preordered Lego Star Wars II from Play three weeks ago and was still waiting for it today until I cancelled it. (I used the money to pre-order Evanescence's new album)

Nintendo Wii launch date - Dec 8th

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