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Big N's Leipzig Show Fails To Prove Promise - Wii

23rd August 2006, 9:28pm
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 Nintendo today gave their Wii speech at the Leipzig games conference. While many press organisation have been looking forward for weeks to the Leipzig conference, in many ways due to Nintendo's announcement - it doesn't appear as much new has been revealed. The main news so far is the reveal of Super Mario Strikers: Charged, a sequel to the the soccer title that hit Gamecube only recently. It makes full use of the Wii controller, letting you deflect balls and use items in typical Mario soccer game.

Another title has been announced for the system - Battalion Wars 2, or (cleverly) BWii for short. The game, also a Gamecube sequel, is a cartoon-styled, mission-centered action game in the vein of the Advance Wars series.

The only other real announcement of note, which wasn't even Wii related, is a new release pink DS unit to be released on October 27th in Europe.

Unfortunately, not too much else in terms of any new information on the Wii. No release price. No further release details, no information on more specific details of games in development, and well, not a whole heap on technical specifications of the system itself. Unless they pull a Super Smash Bros.: Brawl on us, call us disappointed.

Sliced Comments: Well it looks like pink is the new black. Nintendo's pink DS follows yesterday's announcement of a pink PS2 console to be released at around the same as a pink PSP in PAL territories.
by Gordon Craick » Author's Blog