Wii European Launch date!

[FreeRadical]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=146048

December 8th.

179 pounds.

 

[Mentok]

Damn, thats a litle high

 

[FreeRadical]

X-box 360 is only 20 pounds extra in the UK.

X-box 360 core system = 199.99

Wii = 179.99

 

[Galactus]

Damn, thats a litle high

Everything's high in Europe

The good thing though is that it will be region free:

Wii Region Free... but no DVD
Friday 15-Sep-2006 10:39 AM Nintendo cuts costs

News has come in from Wired News' Joel Johnson that Perrin Kaplan, VP of marketing at Nintendo of America, has confirmed the Wii will be region-free, or at least mostly.

He reports that "Like the Nintendo DS, the Wii will be able to play games from other regions, such as Japan, without any restriction. Kaplan implied there might be a region lock that publishers would be able to flip on, but it doesn't sound like the first-party titles from Nintendo will be restricted."

But don't go expecting to play your region-free DVDs, as Nintendo still doesn't see the point of combining a console with a DVD player. Gamespot has information from a rep for the company stating that "they were originally considering an external [DVD] attachment but because the price of DVD players has dropped so much and they have become so commonplace, Nintendo saw no need to create extra hardware options that would drive up the cost for consumers."



This removal of DVD playback makes perfect sense given that the world seems more interested in whether HD-DVD or Blu-ray will replace the popular current format.

 

[Aiden]

£179

That's not bad :/

 

[Avalanche]

£179 is actually incredibly cheap for a new console here in the UK.

 

[TheDarkKnight_NL]

€250 fair enough picking this up for sure

 

[Shifty]

Well atleast the rumour from yesterday of March 2007 turned out to be false.