Wii is coming

Friday 15 September 2006
Nintendo's Wii console will cost £180 and will launch in the UK on 8 December, Nintendoꦺ has finally confirmed at today's European Wii event in London.

Coming a week after the Japanese launch and three weeks after the console is released in 𝓰the US, for your £180 the Wii pack will include one Wii-mote control, one Nunchuck attachment and a copy of Wii Sports.

Wii's other features include interactive news and weather channels - updated constantly through the WiiConnect24 online service - the Virtual Console and a Mii channel, which enable💛s you to create your own avatar for use in games. These features will be accessible through the console's Wii Channel Menu, Nintendo's point-and-click answer to Xbox 360's Dashboard console interface.

The Wii Points system will be used to purchase downloadable content, including new Virtual Console games. Like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft's MS Points on Xbox Live, the system will m𝓀ean credit cards are🐼n't needed for regular, impulse buys.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official Pla♛yStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.