What Could This Be? Nintendo Wii!

11 October 2006

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Posted by:Ferry

“What Could This Be?” is Nintendo’s new catch phrase for the Wii in Japan (and possibly worldwide). Kotaku found the first commercial and translate it as saying “What’s this? It’s a new remote controller. Nintendo Wii remote controller.”

Nintendo of Japan today held a surprise conference like they do every couple of months there, 4CR reports the facts:

* Shigeru Miyamoto announced “Health Pack” (codename) for Wii, which is related to Family Health Check. This sounds like its the Wii Diet Game mentioned a while back.
* Starting next spring, Nintendo will start selling “Wii Compact Software”, presumably downloadable games (i.e., no disc or manual).
* Big Brain Academy Wii announced for Spring 2007.
* 18 Wii games for Japan in 2006.
* Around 60 Virtual Console games by the end of 2006, including PC Engine (Turbografx 16) and Sega MegaDrive (Genesis).
* New Wii-Experience videos have been put online, these show first timers playing Wii, quite fun to see
* Zelda: Twilight Princess for Gamecube will be sold only online in Japan to prevent confusion with the Wii version (and of course to drive up sales of the latter).
* The planning should be similar to DS strategy.
* A new cooking guide titled “DS Menu Collection” (similar to cooking Navi) announced for DS, will have 1000 built-in recipes. The new cooking game has a magnet stand so you can put your DS on your fridge while you cook. Magnet stand costs 1200yen. Also Wi-Fi compatible.

Wii accessories announced were:

* Wii points Prepaid card
* Wii points Prepaid card 1000 (1000 Yen) – 1000 Wii points
* Wii points Prepaid card 3000 (3000 Yen) – 3000 Wii points
* Wii points Prepaid card 5000 (5000 Yen) – 5000 Wii points + classic Controller
* Power brick 3,000 Yen
* Composite 1,000 Yen
* S-Video 2,500 Yen
* D terminal 2,500 Yen
* Component 2,500 Yen
* 512MB SD Card 3,800 Yen
* Wired LAN Adapter 2,800 Yen

List translated by by neogaf.