Wii Details And New Games To Be Revelead On September 14/15

Not much longer now until Nintendo will set things straight once and for all, regarding the launch and pricing of their upcoming Wii console. Through a pair of trade-only events to be held in Europe (on September 15) and North America (September 14), Nintendo will be announcing new titles and details for the Wii - among which a final release date and price point are highly likely to be revealed, at long last.

Sure enough, the Wii will be playable at the event, although participation will be strictly limited to top industry figures (oh well, I had better things to gank anyway). Along with saying that "Nintendo will be announcing new software at the event and there will be new announcements regarding the Wii console itself", a spokesman from Nintendo of Europe also denied last week's rumours about some supposed difficulties with manufacturing the "wiimote":

"The reports are entirely rumour and speculation. I can confirm that the Wii is very much on course for a Q4 release, as Nintendo originally stated."

Until we get a more precise launch interval for the European and North American territories, you might want to spend some time with IGN's Weekly Episode 23, in which they show plenty of first-hand Wii footage from the recent Leipzig Games Convention. And let me just say, those Wii games are surprisingly good looking!

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