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Euro Wii in March 2007? News
Wii News by Tom Bramwell
Looks like Europe might be losing out yet again - Argos has updated its website with a banner advertising the "March 2007" launch of Nintendo Wii.
You can see the offending graphic at the top of its games section. Reports suggest it used to say "Winter 2006".
There is a slight glimmer of hope in this, however, as it was only last week that Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton claimed that a November 24th date/GBP 149 price report being bandied around for the European launch was "not far off".
Pessimists will of course point out that it wasn't clear whether he was referring to the date or the price.
Nintendo is holding a press conference in London at 12PM BST on Friday to announce its European plans for Wii, having given the console a November 19th US and a December 2nd Japanese date on Thursday.
We'll be out in force, as ever, with live text commentary to keep you up to date on whatever occurs. Watch out for some purple words if things go according to Argos' update.
Update Friday: And now they've changed it back to winter. WE SAW YOU.
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Lex_Luthor
14/09/06 @ 20:37
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Sid Nice sez in't forum: "An anonymous friend of mine has just got off the phone from customer support at Argos; he was on for over 50 minutes getting moved from one department to the other. He was unofficially told that the reason behind the Argos Wii release date changing to March 2007 was that Game UK has the distribution rights to 400,000 units in the 4th quarter of 2006. He was also told that Argos don’t intend stocking the Wii until the Easter period after Nintendo’s snub."
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Kazzahdrane
14/09/06 @ 20:37
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If they do that, I'll be annoyed but would hope that we'd then get a better launch in terms of available titles. Mind you, Nintendo would be CRAZY to miss this Extra Special Xmas season where Sony have nothing decent to sell in Europe.
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Looks like the Argos graphic thingy has been changed to "Winter 2006" now.
Edit: nope.. eh, its changed back to 2007! What the hell is going on with my internet browser these days? Oh well, I'll be annoyed if Nintendo really does go for a March 2007 launch, though I guess it means I'll be having a very cheap Xmas this year. But either way, if they go up against the PS3 launch (and hopefully it'll have a strong and WELL STOCKED launch in europe), even at the lower price, the Wii will most likely get absolutely anialhated. Sony is just a much stronger brand in Europe, by a long way.
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Honestly, I don't care... at all. There's so much studying and playing to be done that even March'07 is too early. Don't need any new games as long as I haven't finished all the classics of the current-gen. Heck, I haven't even played, hence finished all the last-gen games yet. This time I want to be thorough.
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According to the Bergsala, the Nintendo distributor in the Nordic countries and the Baltic region the Wii will be released in Sweden in early December. That´s on IDG.se today. Although their media contact person also claims the Wii will be bundled with Zelda in the USA so who knows how much he has been drinking.
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deepmenace
14/09/06 @ 21:28
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are game gonna force us to buy all launch titles with each console sale?
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richardiox
14/09/06 @ 21:34
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Forced budle with Cars, Spongebob and Marvel Ultimate Alliance thus invalidating the whole price pointing.
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ProtoformX
14/09/06 @ 21:35
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It's tricky to say what Game's bundles will be like. When they released the 360 you had to buy it in set bundle deals. Hopefully they won't be too strict this time round and the Wii deals won't follow with the rest of the Nintendo deals that are being run by Game. The DS Lite deal is spectacularly crap right now.
I think it's a bit mean of Game to attempt to secure first dibs on the console. People should be able to shop around for the things. |
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A friend at Game has just sent me the details of their Wii bundle
Seven games for the Vic 20 A plastic Bonnie Langford gnome A crappy 3rd party Wii controller, with extension cable. A 24k memory card and an oven ready chicken All for the bargain price of £455 (Wii extra)
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captain-future
14/09/06 @ 21:43
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Will they give Xbox 360 the Lufthoheit over Christmas 2006???
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doctor__no
14/09/06 @ 22:13
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Several sites have been reporting December 1st for Europe.
Nintendo have already announced they have 4 million ready by the end of 2006, more then enough for US, Japan and EU. |
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WhyMeeeeee
14/09/06 @ 22:14
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it just shows how much the japs think us europeans are insignificant, screw them I LOVE MY XBOX360
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VeniVidiFlati
14/09/06 @ 22:22
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My money's on Dec 1st (pretty much guaranteed), £149.99, games from Ninty £39.99, other publishers the same mostly, although some may stretch to £44.99 (a la £44.99 on Kameo on 360 at launch iirc, but most other pubs £49.99).
Not sure about bundling WiiSports, there's arguments for and against, but I reckon based on the price (£37 more than Jap console, £17 more than US which has WiiSports bundled) it would be foolish not to. And I think there's going to be a fair chunk of stock available too, enough that it will be comfortably the quickest selling home console (currently 360 which did about 75-80k on the first weekend). Closer to the 100k for Wii I think. I really wouldn't read anything into what Argos have on their website. Still, we can all stop speculating after tomorrow... Edit - balls to it, I give up trying to do html. And spelling seems beyond me tonight too :( Oh, and Game getting exclusivity for 5 months? Sounds a bit far fetched, would be one hell of a coup for them. Pretty much completely unprecedented. Can't see it myself.
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Go to Argos website , find page with the Wii and PS3 pics and View Source.
Image alt tag for Wii is "Nintendo Wii launching winter 2006, click here for details, this will open a new window"!!! ...image alt tag for PS3 is "Playstation 3 launching 17th November, click here for details, this will open a new window" Unless that's November 17th, 2007? |
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http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Browse/cat...
Looks like they changed it back... mysterier and mysterier |
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Mayeb Argos got confused as to what console was being put back?
I'm a bit aprehensive about the Wii launch though. How many times int he past have Nintendo done lots of cool interesting looking things elsewhere and then snubbed europe. Ok. Don't answer that. We haven't got all week. But why have a big press event the day after you unveil the US and Jap details if you're not going to launch at the same time here. It'd be madness. The lack of a PS3 in europe means that the Wii should have been put out here asap. A 4 or 5 month head start and a massive price advantage as well as the software line up which by then will be bigger and more diverse than sony's would put Wii in one hell of a position. |
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If they (like Sid assures us) aren't planning to stock the console until March 2007 despite it coming out Winter 2006, the term 'Launching March 2007' does seem a little bit of an odd way to phrase it.
Maybe their switch back to Winter 2006 implies Ninty found out and gave them slapped dannies. :) |
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im pretty sure nintendo isnt so tackless that they would hold a press conference to announce that they are not releasing the wii in europe especially when that press conference i in europe i mean with the DS we didnt find out it was coming out in march till around jan / february. it just seems pointless to me. if they were going to hold it back they would just have released a press release today amongst all the wii news and hope it gets lost
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The_Foo_Fighter
15/09/06 @ 07:09
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Come on, though - who's really going to buy from Argos? They always charge full whack and I for one don't wish to risk having to mingle with sovereign ring-buying chavs and in that 'shop.'
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