With its New Play Control! line, Nintendo is offering gamers the chance to play GameCube titles they may have missed out on with the new control system of the Wii. Last month's release of Pikmin showed how a new control method can breathe new life into a classic game. This month's release, New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis does the opposite, showing how a new control method can cause considerable harm to a game.
After nearly 100 million Wii consoles sold worldwide, the new look Wii Mini launches across UK next month. The latest addition to this family of home consoles offers great gameplay at great value, putting the focus squarely on videogames with over 1,200 disc-based Wii titles to choose from.
No. What reason is there to buy it?
This thing has no reason to exist anywhere with high broadband availability.
Agreed.
Useless and extremly ugly ...
Release a Wii at 99€ when Wii U don't sell very much ...
And people still don't understand that Wii and Wii U are different.
"Wii Mini also being compatible with most existing Wii accessories."
What a load of shit.
This will just create more confusion between a Wii, Wii Mini and the Wii U...
I just don't see the point in this at all.
How's that any more confusing than, say, a PS2, PS2 Slim and PS3? Or Xbox and 360, or whatever. People aren't fools..
it's probably for budget gamers
dont know what's the difference to normal Wii though
but if it plays games like normal then i don't see a reason why someone would rather get original one then
well, i wouldn't get why anyone would even get a Wii at this point anymore to begin with...
Michael Futter writes: We’re finally starting to recover from a whirlwind E3 2012 filled with exciting new game announcements and rapidly approaching major releases (yes, I would very much like to play XCOM: Enemy Unknown right now). However, while some of those games are a bit of a wait, this week has some solid entries.
Lollipop Chainsaw looks interesting, but not $60 interesting. Looking forward to reading reviews.
Another week of slim pickings, it seems.
Although I'm really happy to see Pikmin 2 come out for the Wii with updated controls. I know original GameCube copies are relatively expensive so this could potentially bring down the price of that although I find that unlikely. It will make the game much more readily available to gamers, so that's always a plus!
Unfortunately, I don't have a Wii to play it on. I think I'm just biding my time until I can get one for about $50 or so and then go crazy on cheap games.
XMNR: Nintendo announced two additions to its Nintendo Selects line of games for the Nintendo Wii on Monday. Both Mario Power Tennis and Pikmin 2 will receive the red box and value priced treatment while two other games, Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Donkey Kong Country Returns will both receive permanent price drops
