Wii Power Station Price Drop

Joytech's excellent Wii Power Station, which conveniently charges and stores your Wiimotes has just dropped in price to a bargain £17.98 (retail price £24.99). No more batteries!

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MiiTube - The Wii Video Channel

MiiTube is a new website for watching YouTube videos on your Wii web browser. The site is designed to be viewable on your TV screen and provides an easy way of searching for videos.

Wii Buyer's Guide

Click here to read our new Wii buyer's guide, with the lowdown on everything you need to know come launch day.

Free DS Lite

Dial-a-Phone are offering a free Nintendo DS Lite with many of their UK mobile phone deals.

Click here to find out more about Dial-a-Phone's free DS Lite offer.

UK Wii Launch details: price and date revealed

From the Nintendo press release:

Wii launches across Europe on 8th December 2006 at the estimated retail price of 249 Euros (£179 in the UK). Nintendo first party games will retail at the estimated retail price of between 49 Euros and 59 Euros (£34 to £39 in the UK).

Additional controllers will also be available from launch at the estimated retail prices of: Wii Remote - 39 Euros (£29 in UK), Nunchuk – 19 Euros (£14 in UK) and the Classic Controller – 19 Euros (£14 in UK)

A copy of Wii Sports is included with every system.

New Wii store launched

Check out the new Wii store for the latest UK Wii console and games pre-order and pricing information.

Wii to feature built-in web browser

In a recent interview with Scott Hedrick, an executive at web browser firm Opera, it was revealed that the Wii will feature a version of the Opera web browser out of the box.

How the Wii controller will be used to operate the browser is currently unclear, but Opera claim that the experience will prove to be "as easy if not easier than using Opera on a desktop".

Wii to cost less than $230 (£120)

According to Bloomberg, Nintendo executive Yoshihiro Mori recently stated that "the player won't cost more than 25,000 yen" in Japan. This is approximately 230 $USD or £120 GBP. Of course, while this is probably a good indication of the price in the US, the UK price is unlikely to come in quite so low. Still, that's a lot cheaper than a PS3...

Nintendo also indicated that they expect to shift 6 million consoles and 17 million games by next March.

Wii Launch Games?

Rumours abound that a total of 16 Wii games will be available on around the launch date. Here's the list:

• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
• Wii Sports
• Red Steel
• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
• Madden NFL 2007
  
• Dragon Quest Swords
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
• Metal Slug Anthology
• Trauma Center: Second Opinion
• Elebits
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
• Blitz: The League
• Rayman Raving Rabbids
• SpongeBob SquarePants
• Disney/Pixar's Cars

What's interesting about the above list is the apparent absence of Super Mario Galaxy...