Just wanted to know if anyone was planning on grabbing a Wii on launch day and what games you'll be picking up?

I'll be picking one up with

Zelda
Super Monkey Ball
Rayman

me, pre-ordered at myer.

i'm happy with just getting wii sports and the free racing game, more games will come at xmas :D

this will be my first console since sega saturn w00t

No Zelda? Madness! MADNESS!!!!

I still got my saturn, weew.

Saw the zelda demo at garden city the other day, pretty neat.

i've never played a zelda game. ever.

i was a sega fanboy and flat out refused to touch anything nintendo. now i am wiiing all over that notion.

yeah i was brought up with sega, and moved to sony playstation

nintendo just does nothing for me

soz fanboys

I am tempted to get one but the guys in here reckon unless I've preordered I probably won't be able to find one!@# What's up with that.

im getting one on launch. plan on getting Zelda and Monkey Ball.
Also am getting some free racing game, wii GT Pro or something i think.

I'm pretty sure if you pre-ordered now you would be fine. I think that's just a speil that the retailers are running so more people run in now and buy one.

JB Hi-Fi is selling it's games at $79.95! Which is about $20 cheaper than EB.

how much will the wee wee cost?

your soul

I grew up on nintendo but I've never played zelda

think I saw signs out front of eb saying it was $400

Preordered from myer with that s***ty racing game free. Anybody have any idea EB would give me for it? (the game that is!)

http://users.bigpond.net.au/adman/wiilaunch.jpg

Wanted to get one... but made a stupid mistake and went to sydney for the motorshow instead.. oops!

now thinking of ways to get money to get one.. Think it'll be a while before I'll be getting one somehow :(

Just wanted to know if anyone was planning on grabbing a Wii on launch day and what games you'll be picking up?

You're mum is grabbing one, and she plays some crazy games!

i finaly payed mine off yesterday so that would be me. hope they get enough in and i actualy get one though. waiting will suck so hardcore if they only get like 20 in, and im the 25th person to pre-order one

getting one from TRU Garden City at midnight. along with the free crappy game open season which I will trade in, and Zelda and Wii Play.

Wii play is 70 I think, and you get another controller with it, so 10$ more for a game, why the hell not :P

what day does it come out?


and will i be able to just rock up that following week and get one?

how much will a wii + rayman cost approx?

Getting one from TRU at Aspley at midnight. Hopefully getting NFS:C free and hopefully getting a copy of zelda and wii play + wii-remote.

getting one from TRU Garden City at midnight. along with the free crappy game open season which I will trade in

Pretty sure I read on Kotaku that TRU have now said that they aren't giving a free game away at all.

Might wanna double check that.

Pretty sure I read on Kotaku that TRU have now said that they aren't giving a free game away at all.

Might wanna double check that.

Proven wrong. You can't pre-order and get a free game now. If you pre-ordered when the free game offer was on you get a free game.

Another TRU: Garden City midnight launch fanboy. Pending the results of A-Ns report on the TRU giveaway, I'm grabbing

Console + Wii Sports + NFS: Carbon
Wii Play + Remote
LoZ: TP
Nunchuk

All the other games I was really looking forward to have been pushed back past launch here (ie. Wario Ware, Excite Truck & Trauma Centre).

Pre ordered mine from JB HiFi at Carindale, guy said he’ll do a special deal for me if I order Zelda and another controller, suits me since I was planning on that anyway.
Will be getting:

Console + Sports
Zelda
2nd Wii mote + Wii play
2nd Nunchaku

I thought about Monkey Ball and Rayman but I have never played a Monkey Ball game before, and I’m a little cautious about potentially boring puzzle games.

If I was gonna buy a console it would definately be the Nintendo only because of the funky nunchucks.

just letting you guys know JB will have launch titles priced at 79 dollars too. I think I might try get TRU to match that price, if not, I will wait till morning and be there before they open as they wouldn't let me preorder zelda :P

ndude, have TRU GC called you or anything as other people have claimed they do on A-N? I went in there and they didnt even know that NFS:C was an alternative to Open Season for the free game offer.

And the new info says that NFS:C wont be out at launch...

I have nfi whats going on, no one does :(

what time are you thinking of turning up for the midnight launch there?

I think i might wait around to pick zelda up the next morning. not sure what will happen on the night though.

TRU (canberra) called me a couple of weeks back to check on the openseason/NFSc thing.

May follow PHATm and get zelda+monkey ball the next day at JB.

I wonder how long it will take Nintendo to add multiplayer to the virtual console..

imagine the Super Bomberman carnage

yer, ill wait and see

i like the idea of wii + my new tele, but am still a little unsure on the control methods

ill let u guys buy them and test for me and then u can let me know if i should get one or not

dont mind waiting

wont be playing zelda
will be interested in how the controller works as a wheel in its dohicky holder



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PHATm, they haven't called me. I was a little concerned about that too, but at the same time, I think they might be handling that on a store-by-store basis. I'm thinking about rocking up not long before they open, say, 11:45, because I'm far too lazy to be waiting around there for that long. Does anyone really think there will be an US-esque lining up and stuff? I just can't see it happening here.

probably not. will maybe rock up round 11.30. they open at 12 and shut at 1. I think there were probably over a couple hundred preorders. I dunno how many will turn up for midnight though.

I might head to JB hifi before they close wednesday night too and see if they've put the games out to try score Zelda.

if the wii launch will be anything like the xbox 360 launch then i highly doubt people will be lining up outside,

i was at eb in the brisbane city for the xbox 360 launch and there was about another 15-20 people there, eb had a ticket systems where you rocked up they gave out a ticket then when it finally hit midnight you handed in your ticket as they called your number up and you got your console and left. took about 20minutes to get everyone out of there.

heh I was just @ HN @ indro and Xbox have a hot promo girl walking around trying to pimp it. That's one way to sell consoles I guess.

"Do you come with the xbox?"

The nintendo reps for Wii were at indro again today. Both of them are hot, but yeah, they know nothing about the system.

I liked what my friend said happened at GCAP during the sony conference when an exec asked what do you think of when you hear 'next gen'. Someone yelled out Nintendo.

LOL

anyway, apparently 30k have been preordered in Aus.

Wii's a way to work up sweat
December 03, 2006 12:00am
Article from: Sunday Herald Sun

MORE than 30,000 Australians have pre-ordered Nintendo's next-generation games console, which goes on sale at midnight on Wednesday.
The Japanese games giant -- the dark horse of the $40 billion global gaming wars -- unveiled its secret weapon, Wii, to US audiences last month. The console was snapped up by more than 600,000 gamers and sold out.

Wii will compete against Microsoft's Xbox 360 and market leader, Sony's PlayStation 3, which launches in Australia in March next year.

Wii's advantage is revolutionary motion-sensitive technology that allows gamers to control in-game characters by moving their bodies rather than pressing buttons.

"Wii gets gamers off the couch," Nintendo Australia spokesman Vispi Bhopti says. "Gaming is no longer about just sitting and watching. Expect to work up a sweat."

The experience has proved to be so immersive that Nintendo was last week forced to issue a safety warning after reports of gamers damaging television screens, walls and furniture after becoming overly enthusiastic.

Nintendo expects "thousands" of people to queue for the $400 machines at midnight Wednesday openings nationwide.

"We expect demand will outweigh supply and that there will be a few more 'sickies' than usual on Thursday," Mr Bhopti said.

Microsoft was first to market in November 2005 with its next-generation console, the Xbox 360. Six million 360s have been sold globally.

Xbox 360 was Australia's fastest selling console, with about 30,000 bought by gamers in the first four days.

Sony's PS3 was launched in the US and Japan last month, but no figures are available.

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You know what MS should do - make a Wii bundle with the Xbox 360. I would totally buy that s*** and it would pwn PS3.

"Xbox 360 was Australia's fastest selling console, with about 30,000 bought by gamers in the first four days.

Sony's PS3 was launched in the US and Japan last month, but no figures are available"

well according to what ive read at random places, only 290,000ish PS3s will be shipped by the end of this year. thats for both japan and the US. wii will outsell this by a s*** load. and seriously, wtf is the point of releasing said ps3 in taiwan when you only give the WHOLE COUNTRY 100 systems? honestly why bother.

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will be picking up zelda and wii play at jb, and component cables next week :)

what is wii play??

10 in 1 games. Much like Wii sports, a training ground for the Wii mote

do u need taht nunchucka thing??

No otherwise it'd be silly to just have the wii-remote come with the pack.

when is red steel available?

launch

I've probably missed it somewhere in this thread but are JB doing a midnight launch aswell?

when is red steel available?

don't do it to yourself! this one's a hire job - Yet to see any sort of positive review of Red Steel :( unfortunate, as it's one of the titles I was looking forward to on launch. guess zelda will be if if I can miraculously get the money between now & thursday..

yeah red steel is apparantly a game you should stear clear off. i havnt seen 1 good review of it either which is a shame cuz it had the potential to be great

So just to clarify this before i turn up and am the only one there cause i'm a day early.. it's tomorrow night, wednesday, at midnight right? It's Thursday i need to wag from work?

do u need taht nunchucka thing??

No otherwise it'd be silly to just have the wii-remote come with the pack.

From what I've read, there's seven "standard" games in it, and two unlockable games - "Charge!", which is where you ride a bull and steer it using the wiimote in Excite Truck style, and a tank shooting game that actually does require the nunchuk. It justifies my decision for getting a second nunchuk just a litle bit more.

That's right. The Wii will launch at 12:01am Thursday morning.

I'm so excited, it's so pathetic.

be sure to check out the hilarious thread at GAF for warning instructions (jap manual) lol

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=132168

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one of the many photoshops

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b314/baconmcshig/kenobi.jpg

the OSK also has a dictionary like mobile phones. this is a funny

http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/11/Wiigina.jpg

nintendo am teh mature!

Besides the Star Wars reference, my favourite was :

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/buttonman/wiicleaning.jpg

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I coughed a lot at work today. When pressed on the matter several people commented on how unwell i looked. I'm not sure if I'll be making it in tomorrow but the ground has been set.

Ha
A friend and I are both faking sickies to spend some quality time with Zelda. "Oooh baby"

I have the next two days off. I'm sorry, but Zelda > keeping the network running :)

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http://www.neogaf.com/~kurai/kidwii.jpg

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TRU just called me. No free game today. They will give me a voucher for NFS + a bag + some $s off vouchers, but no free game tonight.

They also have no stock of games other than what's required to meet their pre-orders and packages. So i'll have to go TRU for my console then somewhere else that's open to get wii-play then Zelda in the morning from JB

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frack.

That is f***ED! I went in and asked to pre-order zelda but they wouldn't let me, so now I have to f***ing miss out. TRU are a bunch of f***wits, I'm gonna write them a letter.

just got paid leave loading... so tempted to run out to see if i can still buy one of these during the midnight launch :p

you would be very lucky fish. from all myer's allocation (and I'm assuming the rest are the same) pretty much every store will only have 1-2 units on shelves tomorrow.

and protius, he is in canberra, it might be different up here, though I hope its the same case, free bag and coupons and nfs next week is even better.

I'll be picking up Wii Play and Zelda at Target or JB tomorrow as they're both cheaper. :D

last edited by PHATm at 20:36:00 06/Dec/06

Yeah that was the canberra store calling me. There's two other games shops nearby which are open at midnight so i may be able to pick up something tonight. definitely need a 2nd controller tonight

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Anyone know if myer will be doing midnight launch? I very much doubt it. I just read on IGN that my crappy GT Pro Series free game won't be out here till next week. Damn! I wanted to trade it in for zelda.

i wish i could go to a midnight launch tonight but i need to wait til i get paid before i can get the wii and i don't getz paid til tomorrow. but i've just got home from a christmas party hosted by netstar and they had plenty of free booze so the universe once again evens itself out. i can't remember how many bundy and rums ive drunk tonight so far but i can still type straight (or so it seemsto me) so i obviously havent had enougnh. Lucky for me i nabbed a few for the road so the night is young.

i had contempelated rocking up to the launch pissed with no intensiton of buying one buyt i dont thinlk i will at this point with work tomorrow.

Living the dream.

the fdream would have been tooo vfget paid today but the only ptoroblem is i'd probaly wakre up tomorrow to find a wiiimote lodged in my tv screenn.

i doint want to tkar hte risk

I'm guessing between here:

i wish i could go to a midnight launch tonight but i need to wait til i get paid before i can get the wii and i don't getz paid til tomorrow. but i've just got home from a christmas party hosted by netstar and they had plenty of free booze so the universe once again evens itself out. i can't remember how many bundy and rums ive drunk tonight so far but i can still type straight (or so it seemsto me) so i obviously havent had enougnh. Lucky for me i nabbed a few for the road so the night is young.

And here:

the fdream would have been tooo vfget paid today but the only ptoroblem is i'd probaly wakre up tomorrow to find a wiiimote lodged in my tv screenn.

There's been a few more drinks..

im heading over to a mates now, then im going from there to get my Wii.

we are a bit early but we are taking our DS's to get some Wifi action going if we have to wait.

Someone pass Nailbomb another Bundy.

man the guy on the today show is a f***ing knob, i bet nintendo were annoyed with this. he thought the machine cost 1200 dollars, THATS THE PS3 you douche!

http://gonintendo.com/?p=9919

There's been a few more drinks..

in 8mins? that's some fast acting booze

man the guy on the today show is a f***ing knob, i bet nintendo were annoyed with this. he thought the machine cost 1200 dollars, THATS THE PS3 you douche!

http://gonintendo.com/?p=9919

Ahahhahah nerd rage.

1200 dollars, THATS THE PS3 you douche!

its not even the price of a PS3 you douche!

Got mine. Trying to setup wireless now. It's seeing my wireless but failing the test. This'll be fun.

Was about 70 people @ TRU Belconnen (Canberra). i managed to get it 11th.

They had no stock that wasn't pre-ordered so will try bigw and JBHIFI when they open.

Been playing wii sports for over an hour now and it's a bit exhausting. I'm doing the serious mode of play where you actually move rather than just sit on the chair. Bowling and tennis are heaps of fun. Will have to read instructions on boxing to get it right, and baseball was a little homo.

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:(

stuck at work & have no money to buy a Wii :(

life sucks some time..... But hey, I'll get one when they get cheaper next year!

woot just been playin it. there were bout 50 or so ppl at garden city TRU. i got the action pack. wii, wii play, zelda, a bag, and lots of coupons for $530.

had 3 mates over who also bought them and played everything on wii sports and tried a bit of zelda...gonna be playing that all day tomorrow :D

wii sports is really cool. tennis, bowling are great, boxing you can really get a workout going lol, and golf and baseball are alright, though a bit tricky.

I tried connecting to the net, it detected and everything, but doing the update failed twice. It was taking forever, looked like it would take 30mins to download the update. Maybe ill move the router closer tomorrow to get the update :)

So YOU were the one dude with the Action Pack? I found the experience pleasant, and it was such good value ;) I've now played every game on Wii Sports, Wii Play, and half an hour of Zelda. Mine also updated right away... I hope some more channels come out soon, its seems quite functionally bare atm.

lol there was one dude out the front, but then my other mate decided we should get action pack to save f***ing round with nfs etc.

how fast was your update? you need to buy some VC games to fill it up :P

I was the only person at BigW this morning when it opened, and picked up Zelda and Wii-Play.

Gonna get my wireless working then give zelda a spin

I went in and asked to pre-order zelda but they wouldn't let me, so now I have to f***ing miss out. TRU are a bunch of f***wits,

Because they wouldn't let you preorder something the day before it comes out?!

so f***ing tempted to get a wee

looks like a very fun console.

I don't even know when they are out over here or how much they cost, but still tempted to get one.

I'd still like to hear reports from people who've used them etc, for me, the controller would be the most f***ed part of it... looks like it'd be hard to use.... altho that was said about the original xbox controller, and I love the original (was it called the duke or something?) but yeh, the controller looks, well, dumb

so reckon you would be able to purchase one today if you didn't have a pre-order?

so reckon you would be able to purchase one today if you didn't have a pre-order?

Departments stores like Target and Big W etc, I would say most definately. Stores like Eb might be a different story though.

BoBa,

BigW at Gungahlin (ACT) had about 20 units there in plain sight and no one queued up. On the shelves they had about 15 copies of the 3 games they stock + WiiPlays. Based on that I'd say you are in with a good chance of finding a Wii today, but i haven't checked out JB or target which have slightly better pricing.

HeardY,

The controller is friggin awesome. I didn't realise how cool it was until i just completed all the wiiplay games then. Just playing the tank game shows how much extra control this gives yet without being confusing, and the airhockey and pool games were fun showing off the twisting and depth. Things like shooting behave like you expect and i may not really understand the fishing, but the control seems very natural. It vibrating and making noises when you hit things (like in airhockey) makes you feel like you are actually hitting something not just waving your hands around in front of you.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

Yeah, wtf is with that fishing game? To answer anyone with any concerns, the wii-mote is the most intuitive control method I've ever used, and having owned one for several hours, I reckon I'm typing at about 30-40 wpm on the on-screen keyboard.

Zelda is graphically incredible, last time I played it, the TVs they had did not do it justice. However, has anyone else noticed the relatively poor animation for link? It's probably the same quality of animation as, say, ocarina of time, but it just doesn't fly with the number of polys they're pushing.

take the reviews to a new thread guys!

come on, convince me to get one

i want to be convinced!

whens a driving game come out?
i wanna know how the controller handles as a steering wheel

just waltzed into JB's at indro and grabbed a wii and 3 games, but they had no controllers left, so had to go to myer

Damm this is fun, but as soon as I connected to the net it started updating its self. I would be happy, but the update is going sooooo slow. Nintendo must be getting raped.

EDIT: Exspect 2 updates upon connecting to the net for the first time. First takes around 20mins on 512k, second takes 10.

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Picked mine up with zelda this morning from myer carindale.. bit of a lineup but not too bad. Saw a lot of people buying Wii play with controller but not many zeldas. Too bad I'm at work all day and can't play it! Btw, despite what the pricetag says zelda at myer is $80 for today at least.

This sounds like it might be awesome to get, especially for party type games.

I can see alot of damage to property and muscles being done when you combine Wii with alcohol.

just fired it up on my work monitor. tennis and bowling are a lot of fun!

I can see alot of damage to property and muscles being done when you combine Wii with alcohol.

oh hell yes! Wii Sports Boxing or Tennis would be quite dangerous to play when you're 20 bourbons up or so ;)

Sounds like fun to me!

I updated mine at around 7am thismorning. Was reasonably quick, got through both in 5 minutes - I'm guessing because by 7am the people who picked it up at midnight had subsided, and those picking it up at 9am hadn't got to it yet.

Now I'm going to have to find a decent LCD to play this thing on for when I move out.

yeah mine were fast on cable

went down to myer brookside yesterday. got:
wii console and wii sports
wii play w/ remote
zelda :tp
extra nunchuk
classic controller
zelda 1
sonic hedgehog.


myers have still failed to call me re: myer one dealy with gt 2 and steering wheel. anyone else picked this up yet?

On IGN it said GT pro series wouldnt be here till at least next week. I'd expect to wait a few days.

GT Pro was out at launch my cousin picked it up at TRU instead of Carbon

Zelda is awesome and I'm only an hour into it.

25 hours into Zelda, and I got to say the weapons you get are SO awesome.
Wait till you see the items from 4th and 5th temple. Can’t wait to see what’s in store for the 6th tomorrow.

i got my wii from myer brookside. complete with the free GT pro and steering wheel.
the game is f***en s*** though and i would have prefered a carry bag instead :(

My Wiimote makes an ugly whirring sound when rumbling, is that normal?


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I think so, mine makes the same noise but it's hard to hear when there is any sort of noise coming from the TV. Probably because the rumble motor is a lot smaller than most controllers are.
Anyway, how often does the rumble go off without a loud sound accompanying it?

A side note my first set of batteries has run dry, I reckon I have gotten 30 hour out of the remote. Not bad, seeing as they were packaged with the console. Looking to buy some quality rechargeables and a charger.

haven't had a decent crack at zelda yet, my boys are hoggin it atm

nothing I've seen in it so far has even come close to wow'ing me yet tho :(

just completed the first dungeon in zelda, good stuff

I feel a bit gipped seeing there's no online multiplayer component yet. Apparently early 2007, I wonder if that's just for new 'Wii' titles only, or support for virtual console as well (phoah bomberman)

I'm might buy the Wii Play bundle and check my rumble against the new Wiimote. Mine at the moment is noticeably loud (and annoying), and it's making me nervous that I haven't heard any much talk about it. Granted, relatively speaking there hasn't been much talk about how crap the speaker in the Wiimote is either, and most wouldn't argue that.

Just finished a Zelda session then. I wasn't too keen during the beginning, but after the first dungeon I'm hooked. This game is going to be epic.

got my wii from myer brookside. complete with the free GT pro and steering wheel.

thanks mate for exhausting their gt supplies.. i took home a game of my choice in lieu.

what do you guys reckon my chances of picking up a wii this week? is there anywere that still has stock?

Probably not good. My mate put a raincheque on one on thursday and it was the last one there. Dunno where it was but yeah.

i picked mine up on friday from wow sight and sound at kedron... they still had about 10 - 15 on their shelf behind the counter when i got mine.

fish: there's heaps around, game traders, eb and jb have plenty, give them a call

Cool, hopefully a city retailer might have some and i can pick them up at lunch.

Check out myers. I got mine from there and they had 8 left on friday.

One of my friends just picked one up from Toy World in the Myer Centre - $389.

lols

especially for party type games

do they have spin the bottle? truth or dare?

One of my friends just picked one up from Toy World in the Myer Centre - $389.

that's where i picked mine up today. I have joined the masses :D