Nintendo Wii U Release Date And Price Revealed

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I didn't know if anyone saw this or not, so I figured that I would post it here...

Nintendo Wii U Release Date And Price Revealed



The Wii U has a release date. Nintendo's console will be released on November 18. It will come in two versions, a Basic and Deluxe set.  The Deluxe set will cost you $349 and the basic version will run $299.

As we learned during Nintendo's Japanese press event last night, the Wii U will have 2GB of memory, 1GB for games and 1 GB for system memory. Its discs will have a 25GB capacity and are not Blu-Ray. It will be backwards compatible with the Wii. Additionally, the console will support all Wii accessories straight out of the box.

The Premium bundle will come with a console, a controller, an HDMI cable, power cradles for your Wii U pad, a 32 GB HDD, and a subscription to Nintendo Network Premium which offers 10% discounts on downloadable software, while the Basic bundle will come with just the console, a controller, and an 8GB HDD.

(More details as they are revealed.)

Source:  http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/727914/nintendo-wii-u-release-date-and-price-revealed/

[Arudo]

That's actually not a bad price at all even for the deluxe/premium one.

The HDD size is kind of disappointing though considering the other previous gen systems were in the 100s of GBs.

[dcx2]

Hopefully the hard drive is just a simple 2.5" one, like in the PS3.  Then you can just go buy your own.

hmm...although at those capacities, maybe it's an SSD?

[Thomas83Lin]

Anyone else pre-order today, I Decided on the Deluxe set myself along with New Mario Bros, from Gamestop.

[Arudo]

I'll probably grab a pre-order for the Deluxe after I check my finances/get paid.

[James0x57]

I'm not going to buy it at launch. Doesn't seem even remotely worth it.

[goemon_guy]

Preordering a Deluxe one whenever I get down to EB.

Also, the memory capacity is externally expandable. (Through the use of an external hard drive.)

[Bully@Wiiplaza]

Not sure to get one... :confused:
I probably won´t ever have homebrew on it and I don´t like their tablet controller.
When the Wii was launched, the controls convinced me, nothing else.

[dcx2]

It might be worth getting a launch one...because subsequent machines might have patched exploits.  Kinda like how early adopters of the Wii get to have Bootmii as boot2.

A 1080p Wii with a tablet controller should be interesting, to say the least.

[Clay10]

I don´t like their tablet controller.

I agree with this, it seems big and bulky. But the CCP and wiimote are compatible.

[Arudo]

I put down 50 bucks yesterday to pre-order a Deluxe one.

[Arudo]

Five more days to go... and I have another $150 to pay off on it.

[111]

I doubt that I will be getting one at launch (unless a store has some extra consoles in stock  :-\), since I didn't bother to pre-order one.  I'll be interested to see/hear what happens when people attempt to run exploits like the Smash Stack on it.  I'm guessing that all exploits, including that one, will be blocked.

[Arudo]

I'll let you know what I think of it... although I probably won't be trying to hack it...

I've taken Monday off to game/goof around.

[Bully@Wiiplaza]

lol ;D
If at least one of the old exploit work I´m going to laugh my ass off.

I probably won´t get a Wii-U, no matter how things turn out. I´m not convinced in needing another console atm.