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The Nintendo Wii is a home video game console released on November 19, 2006. The Wii's main selling point was the innovative use of motion controls that its signature Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers allowed for. It became the best selling home console of its respective generation of hardware.
IT'S BACK! IT'S BLACK! IT PRINTS MONEY!
August 1 in Japan.
Also available:
Wiimote Black 3,800yen
Nunchuk Black 1,800yen
Classic Controller Pro Black 2,000yen
Classic Controller Pro White 2,000yen
Monster Hunter 3 Special Pack / Aug 1,2009 / 33,000 Yen
(Black Wii + game + probably classic controller pro)
This is how you take back japan in one swift move. UG, these are gonna sell so much! Same day release as Monster Hunter 3. And bundles:
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Seriously looks awesome though. God damn why did I have to buy a white one? Well if I didn't I would have missed out on all the Wii games up until now so I regret nothing. Spray paint here I come. :P
They should've done this at launch...I don't have the money to buy another Wii...I'll be picking one of those sexy black wiimotes though.
I just relied this, how for the past 12 years, Nintendo just takes the all their consoles recolors and releases them. Without making any other changes.
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By doing this for some reason it recreates a demand. Mind boggling!
Also that MH3 box and stuff looks dead sexy, Iwould be very tempted to buy that if I saw it on the shelf, I love Monster Hunter like its nobodys business. But MH3 looks way not as good as the PSP games. Less weapon types and online monthly fee. Sucky deal. Maybe if they have free online I'll get it, it does have underwater fighting and looks a lot nicer, and adding back online play makes it awesome. Only playing MHF2 when my friends were over sucked during the week. WESHALLSEE!
Curiously, I wonder how much I could get for my wii... It is soft modded haha.. not very hard =) Of course if this new wii cant be hacked then no thanks. I buy games like mario and zelda and harvest moon, but im not spending $60 on wii music. It was fun for about 15 minutes. Glad I gave that a download before bought it.
You can always not play online so it's just like the PSP game then... Except with split screen multiplayer on top... It also actually looks far better and while there are less weapon types total (though it's not clear, gun lances may have been combined as a type with the lances rather than removed altogether for example), all the weapons have new abilities, have been rebalanced, some are more customisable (3 piece bowguns) and there's also the slash axe which can be used in 2 different modes. Of course, all the new areas, monsters and gear alone are worth it as well. The fee isn't confirmed for the West, the Monster Hunter home console (and PC) titles have always had a fee in Japan but have been free in the West so it remains to be seen what they do with this entry. I guess newer players wouldn't be aware of that but now you are. Monster Hunter 3 is the first evolution of the series since, well, 2. The PSP games are simply down-ports of the first two PS2 games, and with the online aspect removed. 3 adds more features than any other game before it, with things like the ecosystem feel, reworked stamina, torches for dark areas, underwater mechanics. If they've removed things, it's because they broke the balance in past titles, like the dual wielding swords which were completely overpowered. It doesn't take from the game, it fixes the game, and adds a ton of new shit on top, so to act like it's worse because it has less weapon types is quite stupid. Not to mention on the Wii you finally get decent camera control (whether you use the remote+nunchuck or the classic controller) so you can rotate it at will without needing to stop controlling your character's movement as on the PSP.
As for your piracy habits, yeah, we totally believe you only do it to try the games for 15 minutes and then see if you'll buy it or delete it, never play further or complete it then decide against paying for any stupid reason like it wasn't as good as your absolute favorite game in the genre... Lol.
A good move, I think this is the perfect time for releasing a black console, now that the production issues are out of the way.
I am definitely getting some Yin to add to my Yang. I also want that new improved controller.
This really sucks considering if they made this at launch I wouldn't of ruined my white wii with stickers.
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Wow
Sidenote: This probably means that Nintendo is seriously considering the next step beyond the Wii. They've always said that the sign of the end is when they start to release new colors for their consoles. Basically, that means indicators are trailing and they need a boost. New colors is the stop-gap until the new product is done with dev. Wii-HD team just got a memo.
Sigh, yeah, The Wii, with its 50 million units sold, is dieing. Nintendo is worried. They need a new system and they need it NOW. This MEGATONFORJAPAN is totally not made because it will SELL LIKE HOT CAKES, it's made to make way for WiiHD,WII2,WIII, etc >_>
And the DSi which JUST launched is also dieing! It got a red color! Poor fools, those who bought it, by next year we'll have DSibo!
" Sigh, yeah, The Wii, with its 50 million units sold, is dieing. Nintendo is worried. They need a new system and they need it NOW. This MEGATONFORJAPAN is totally not made because it will SELL LIKE HOT CAKES, it's made to make way for WiiHD,WII2,WIII, etc >_> "
"We haven't even released it in new colors yet" doesn't mean "we'll release WiiHD/2 as soon as we have Wii colors out"
Also, Reggie doesn't dictate when it happens. Every time he speaks, it's simply PR. He's been completely wrong on many occasions. It's very possibly he was unaware of the incoming black Wii (which is likely to stay Japan only) when he chose to make that statement to show it's far.
They should have done a whole load of special editions of that with the 'Revolution' branding on it.
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