Wii Fit Priced At $90
Nintendo has put a $90 price tag on Wii Fit when it hits stores on May 19. The Wii balance board is shaped like a household body scale with a white top and grey bottom. The balance board contains pressures sensors used to control the virtual movements. Also, the sensors are used to measure the user’s center of mass and body mass index.
Rock Band On Wii June 22
Harmonix announced that Rock Band will be released on Wii June 22 for $170. Extra instruments will be avaiable like a second guitar. In addition to that, there will be five extra songs on disc.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl Reviewed
Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the next installment in the Smash Bros. series for the company’s Wii console. Here are a couple of updated reviews gathered from Metacritic.
GamePro(100/100): From the fighting mechanics to roster of players Brawl is a well-rounded game that I just couldn’t put down. The only downside to Brawl is that it doesn’t do anything to reinvent the series. It takes elements of past SSB games and refines them, which is great, but players expecting an entirely new experience won’t find it here.
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Wii Supplies Dried Up
Nintendo pulls Wii ads for this festive season due to lack of supply. The ads will be replaced with DS handheld ads.
Nintendo executives said the Japanese company had thought its production schedule — about 1.8 million consoles a month — would be sufficient.
But because components have to be ordered five months in advance, they said, Nintendo can’t crank up output at its factories in China to meet the holiday shopper onslaught.
Source: Where there’s a will, there’s a Wii
PS3 Outselling Wii In Japan
Sony’s PS3 outsold Nintendo’s Wii in Japan for the first time in November. Is this proof that the PS3 is beginning to come back against its rivals?
Sony sold 183,217 PS3 in Japan compared to 159,193 Wii consoles in November. In previous months, the Wii has outsold the PS3 upwards of 6 to 1.
Source: PS3 Beats Wii Sales in Japan
