Wii on EDGE: details (or rumors?) revealed

One of these days, we’re going to have an EDGE Magazine subscription FedExed to us on a regular basis. (To which one replies: “Why not go for UPS? It’s so much cheaper”). Otherwise, we’ll have to continue to depend on the kindness of strangers who can’t stop talking about what they read in EDGE (and which we can’t verify since we don’t have an EDGE subscription).

Anyway, a member of the NeoGAF forums, Rocked, chose to reveal some “Wii and DS tidbits” he read off of EDGE’s latest issue (#169?). A couple of them were interesting, one non-gaming point was meh, and quite a few grabbed us by the proverbial (sweet spot). We quote Rocked here:

• CNN to provide content for the News Channel in the US and Japan.
• Sega has moved a significant number of development staff from PS3 to Wii over the Summer
• Although Nintendo has removed DVD movie playback from the Wii, it plans to launch in Japan next year an enhanced Wii capable of such a feature (What the…)
• Original MSRP for Wii in UK and US: £150 and US$ 200, but larger retail chains pressured them to change the price because they were concerned that they wouldn’t earn as much from the intended MSRP
• Plenty of Wii Channel slots still remaining to be filled
• EDGE says that Wii Sports will be to Wii what Mario 64 was to the N64.

What really got us was the Enhanced Wii-DVD bit. Whenever Nintendo was asked before, the official answer was “No, nada, nixed.” So reading the DVD bit agitated several replies to the NeoGAF forum thread, and quite a few asked “Should we now wait for the ‘enhanced’ Wii?” (A few also asked, “What do I do then about the X DVD players I have at home?).

Maybe someone didn’t Photoshop a Wii DVD too late, buddy. (Although technically speaking, the Photoshop Wii-d is still wrong, if the “Enhanced Wii” reads off a DVD straight and not through a peripheral. On the other hand, they could make it so that the “Enhanced Wii” simply adds codes to the console so it can read from an external DVD drive… but this is all conjecture).

Hey, if any of you has EDGE in your bedrooms, can you please check this out for us? We’d be eternally grateful for the kindness of strangers. And if the DVD bit (and everything else) is on EDGE (169 or 168?), what do you guys think? (Until then, we’re filing this under Rumors).

One of these days, we’re going to have an EDGE Magazine subscription FedExed to us on a regular basis. (To which one replies: “Why not go for UPS? It’s so much cheaper”). Otherwise, we’ll have to continue to depend on the kindness of strangers who can’t stop talking about what they read in EDGE (and which we can’t verify since we don’t have an EDGE subscription).

Anyway, a member of the NeoGAF forums, Rocked, chose to reveal some “Wii and DS tidbits” he read off of EDGE’s latest issue (#169?). A couple of them were interesting, one non-gaming point was meh, and quite a few grabbed us by the proverbial (sweet spot). We quote Rocked here:

• CNN to provide content for the News Channel in the US and Japan.
• Sega has moved a significant number of development staff from PS3 to Wii over the Summer
• Although Nintendo has removed DVD movie playback from the Wii, it plans to launch in Japan next year an enhanced Wii capable of such a feature (What the…)
• Original MSRP for Wii in UK and US: £150 and US$ 200, but larger retail chains pressured them to change the price because they were concerned that they wouldn’t earn as much from the intended MSRP
• Plenty of Wii Channel slots still remaining to be filled
• EDGE says that Wii Sports will be to Wii what Mario 64 was to the N64.

What really got us was the Enhanced Wii-DVD bit. Whenever Nintendo was asked before, the official answer was “No, nada, nixed.” So reading the DVD bit agitated several replies to the NeoGAF forum thread, and quite a few asked “Should we now wait for the ‘enhanced’ Wii?” (A few also asked, “What do I do then about the X DVD players I have at home?).

Maybe someone didn’t Photoshop a Wii DVD too late, buddy. (Although technically speaking, the Photoshop Wii-d is still wrong, if the “Enhanced Wii” reads off a DVD straight and not through a peripheral. On the other hand, they could make it so that the “Enhanced Wii” simply adds codes to the console so it can read from an external DVD drive… but this is all conjecture).

Hey, if any of you has EDGE in your bedrooms, can you please check this out for us? We’d be eternally grateful for the kindness of strangers. And if the DVD bit (and everything else) is on EDGE (169 or 168?), what do you guys think? (Until then, we’re filing this under Rumors).