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New Wii games announced

New Mario Strikers, Battalion Wars announced for Nintendo's upcoming console at Leipzig Conference; Wii price, date still secret.

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Nintendo used its high-profile press conference at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, this morning to announce two new games for the Wii but disappointed anyone waiting for information about the launch price of the next-gen console.

Nintendo announced a new Mario sports title for the Wii, called Mario Strikers Charged (working title). The sequel to Super Mario Strikers is likely to make full use of the Wii controller--the game is playable at Leipzig, and GameSpot will bring you more information as soon as we can. German footballer Philipp Lahm was featured in a video to promote the game, and it was demonstrated on stage by a Germany TV star.

Battalion Wars 2 for the Wii was also announced and will be playable on Nintendo's stand at Leipzig. Very few details of the game have been released, although Nintendo did say that it was abbreviated to BWii. The original Battalion Wars was released on the GameCube in late 2005.

Nintendo also revealed that a pink DS Lite would come to Europe on October 27.

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just to say one thing about PS3.....it is a great system.....but sony will lose for it.....losing 700 dollars per system if sold at the price they are speaking of selling it as.....they dont realize that a huge portion of gamers are under the age of 20....and most people under this branch of gamers cant just throw 600 dollars to 1000 for a great game system (or computer as sony likes to call it) and then 60 to 90 bucks for one video game (because to be honest i dont think any game will go up to 100 dollars)....i will one day purchase a PS3 when the technology that is used for the system goes down (any good blu ray is over 700 dollars)...im 17 and have a part time job....im saving up for wii and x-box 360, i havent got the 360 yet because nintendo always comes first in my book...well im going to stop talking now because none of you actually want to read this anyway.....

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what about fire emblem

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ok

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Im tired of the talk from the PS3 fans always degrading the wii or bragging about how good the PS3 is neither has came out yet so stop talking smack. PS3 fans in general need to stop talking cause without Nintendo gaming would still be in the stone age.

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that's cool a sequel for super mario strikers :D

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Pink DS lite will save female gaming! :(

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Kameo and PDZ are stupid games? I dont think so

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My thoughts exactly, Luigifreak

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your pretty dumb ssjtrunks6. nintendo them selves said they were not going to compete with the ps3 or xbox 360. they're just trying to introduce new gamers into our society. and for the games on the wii it doesnt even matter whether they are gonna look better then the ps3 or not. its all about the revolution (even after it got changed to its lame name) for the wii its not about graphics its about gameplay and really thats what it should be about. thats why games like mario bros. are still cult favorites. i mean look at the xbox 360. where are the good games??? aside from oblivion and fight night round the 360 game library is full of either crappy ports of better games (madden nfl 06, quake 4) or just crappy games in general (perfect dark zero, and the stupid cameo game) and as for the ps3. $600!!!!!????? forget that. the wii is for my kind of gamers. smart ones. although i will say the ps3 is lookin good. just gotta add that.....

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once again the ps3 is not even out yet, and people are still throwing out insults at that game console, this just goes to show that you know nothing about technology... or how bout you look at the consoles specs and then talk your smack, as you would see is that the xbox 360 and the ps3 are far more superior than the wii, it was even said earlier on gamespot news that, the nintendo wii was is not built with impressive hardward specifications 3rd paragraph << LINK REMOVED >>

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thats cool, i really didnt like strikers tough, hope its better

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to redicemoon- ive heard of redneck lingo but you type the same way you probably talk thats funny, and the reason why i want not wont that system is becaues it is going to have sweet graphics and sweet games and the wii will have sweet games i didn't even understand the last part you said, but whatever you said it sounded pretty stupid. ah stupid people make me laugh

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the wii is has so many games and the sony PS3 has so few how come yall wont that dumb ass system it is and xbox360 with a different body and the intternet wont be as good but hey get it if you wont the wii rules and the ps3 sucks

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Bien!!!!!!!!!! Mas juegos para el wii =)

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tokyo game show.... ladies and gentlemen. Its in the heart of japan. Lot of things may happen.... for both SONY and NINTENDO. Expect less but Exciting i dear say....

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eatsbabys.....

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that's cool

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Ok

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batatlion wars should be cool

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I've known that BW 2 would come out for a long, long time, even before BW 1 was released. As for Super Mario Strikers 2, I don't know if that should even be released...

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.....yawn....

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...>_>

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wohhh is it me or all the game we see for the wii are all the same as the gamecube.... so we are gonna spend 200$ for an new controller lol i'm about to change my opinion about nintendo. show us some real game please or just tell the truth about the specs.

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crud now we have to wait for release date. wii knew they were gonna lie though about telling us in september.

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hoot

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Okay im kinda gettin annoyed with nintendo not sayin the release date or price. I mean what is the reason for not telling us other than to torture us all? My guess the system will most likely come out in november like usual...

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thats great, LAME!

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Sports games suck...

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Yey! super mario strikers:)

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Darkdaej. I visit a lot of gamesites and you can be sure that there's going to be a Multiplayer. Even 3 multiplayer modes: Assault (instant action), a more tactical mode and co-op (with special missions).

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could have been something I actually cared about, oh well.

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I agree with castlevaniafan MUST NOW MORE!!!!!!!!

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Heh, I guess putting out sequels of acceptable games should do fine. As long as Battalion wars II will have multiplayer. If one thing was missing on the first, that was it, and with the free online Nintendo will offer, Multiplayer would only make more sense on a RTS

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I don't care about mario strikers, but I'm looking forward for BWii (but I never get to play the GC version)

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awesome games

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its great to knowa about more games coming to the Wii, but i want to know about the price and release date already!

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mario strikers on the wii would be sweet

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BATTALION WARS 2???????? FREEEEEEEKKKIIIINNNNN SWEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTT!!!!!! DUDE!!!! you know that this time around they'll let you choose what army you want to play as, maybe even have a multiplayer! Is it gonna use the wii nun-chuck or a standard game controller???? is it gonna be a launch game???? I MUST KNOW MORE who cares about super mario strikers and DS lite, the original DS is much better than the lite.

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why would anyone think they'd announce a price at some german gaming convention? ..that doesn't really make sense to me. P.S.- i love cookies and mountains due

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Awesome

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Super Mario Strikers Charged and Battalion Wars 2 sounds good but a pink DS Lite? Trying to get in the pink action, huh Nintendo? How long til we see a pink Xbox 360.

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Dang, I was hoping Wii sports would mark the end of the Mario Sports franchise. I know that the games are actually quite fun, but I don't really think we need a new Mario sports title every couple of months. Maybe if it was just one game with several sports games included like Wii sports I would be more interested, otherwise it's just a new game (well, sequel anyway) with the same gimmick. But, it's nice to see that Nintendo isn't burning out from releasing so many big launch titles.

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How can anyone tire of Mario games? As soon as you tire of Mario games, the rest of the video games soon follow.

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Not bad but I want more info on the Virtual Console! :)

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When is the U.S. gonna have some cool gaming stuff that some of the other countries don't have??? I mean, even Germany supports the Revolution more than us...That's sad. I wish we sold stuff before Japan. *tear*

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Mario Sports games are fun but I think there should be a Mario Football (real football not the smash football) and Mario Superstar Baseball 2.

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NINTENDO WIILL WIIN!!!!!

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So when is TGS?

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