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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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Toribor and BobbyBobby85: if the Mario sports titles are good and people still buy them then they'll keep making them. Regardless of how many are already out. It's basically like EA's sports franchises (i.e. Madden)

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I agree BobbyBobby85. It is getting old, and I am getting tired of cashing in on the franchise. That isn't to say the game is bad, I enjoyed Mario Baseball, but I would much rather see something original.

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Color me Dissappointed. The last thing I want to hear about from Nintendo is yet another Mario Sports title. on't they have enough already? And here I was thinking they would announce something unique. :roll:

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Not more mario sports! Aint interested!

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freakin' Hell Nintendo, I want a friggin launch date and price, i'm just so tired of sitting, and waiting. I want to know, but noo, they gotta keep it secret friggin again.

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Geez, ppl... chill. Q4 2006 is the official "date", it still a bit off and I know I'd feel more let down getting a specific release date that they can't hold than actually waiting a bit longer for the date even if it's just a month in advance. 4th quarter of 2006 = October to December. What does it matter really if we know it now or in a couple of weeks? And I agree with some posters here, save, save, save! Wii will cost less than $250 and anything above that you need for all the games! Remember thera are a bunch of games sceduled for the release, have you even started to make a list of the ones you are going to buy? I know I haven't.... Just take a break, play some games, be with your girlfriend/boyfriend/ffamily or just go outside for a couple of hours. It's not the end of the world. It will all be worth it in the end.

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JUST MAKE A FREAKING DONKEY KONG GAME,NONE OF THAT DRUM CRAP.THEN MAYBE I WILL PICK UP A WII TO GO ALONG WITH MY XBOX 360!!!!!!!!!!

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Nintendo said price/date would be revealed in September..>_>

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sounds gr8

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Where's our multi-colored DS Lites :(?

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another mario sports game....

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battalion wars fun for a while. but not much skill was required. just had to follow the rules of their rock paper scissors.

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Coolz.

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Captain Dingo says, "I always save money, and not for anything in particular. It's a healthy practice, just for life in general. Then when something awesome does come out, just plunk down the cash and be done with it." Thanks, Dad. About the games...they're gonna rock. I love the people who still bash the Wii because the Cube wasn't everything it could have been. Come on, wake up! The Wii is going to change the industry. Do you honestly think Microsoft and Sony aren't going to try to copy it after it's become a huge success? As soon as Nintendo starts outselling them, you can bet the farm that Microsoft and Sony are going to be releasing motion sensitive controllers and any other gadget they can think of.

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Lol to enoslives7's comment. What is Nintendo going to do? Wait till about 1 week before launch and say hey heres the price and oh by the way its going to be released next week, just announce it already, I mean Sony's put theirs out there why not Nintendo; It's not like they are going to blow people away with the price because we all know its going to be alot cheaper than the other two.

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Sounds cool!

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kool

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What about my 2 favorite games ?? "Yoshi's diaper quest" & "Wario teaches ABCs"

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FUn Fun Fun:-/

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@trdrstv then way better u can get even more stuff, maybe an extracontroller or game,or some VC games? Its not like ive a done a huge study about it, but hey the more we get the better dont we ? just letting my imagination fly a bit, wouldnt it be cool to make a mario strikers team with a couple friends, and enter an online league ?? i mean we know that the most fun we get form nintendo games is at the multiplayer level, online gaming should be lots of fun,but nintendo has to administrateit really well evenmore if its goin to be free. Just imagine howmany ppl play through kaillera online snes, segaand mamegames.

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Sounds good iguess but i'll stick with my Xbox 360-HD Games!

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Will there be videos posted of the Strikers Charged demostration?

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Really, Im sick of "Mario" games.

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Battalion wars 2! Yay! :D

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Cool. Super Mario Strikers was a great party game. Lots of fun.

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battalion wars was a interesting looking game and i can't wait to see what nintendo does with the sequel. good for them, now can i get some dual strike on my wii too.

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...meh, im not big fan of either series

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Liepzig is great!

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*Shrug.* A lot of people are infuriated by this, but let's be serious, knowing when the release date is sooner won't make it actually come out any sooner. Heck, the sooner we know when it comes out, the longer we're sitting here just waiting for the day. Besides, the uncertainty of how much money you need to save up isn't a big deal. What's the worst that can happen? You save up too much and are pleasantly surprised to know you can afford another game or two? Painful. :P I always save money, and not for anything in particular. It's a healthy practice, just for life in general. Then when something awesome does come out, just plunk down the cash and be done with it. We are not dealing with rockets, ladies and gentlemen! Besides, they said we'd know more in September, so don't act all surprised that we didn't learn more in, hm, what is this? August? I think you see the pattern. ;)

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awesome!

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Yes....im so geting the Wii =)

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I know people all over are saving up for this but couldn't it hurt them at least in Europe and the U.S. by announcing the Launch date so close to the end of the year?

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I just wanna know the release date! is that so much 2 ask? (im not worried aboutt he price, got lots saved up 4 it)

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I'm glad the Wii is getting an impressive launch set, but when is the launch? Gaaaaaa!!!! Just tell us already!

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i'm really not too worried about the price. i just wanna know when i can play this at gamestop

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Nintendo's really starting to piss me off! I may just buy a 360 instead of all this waiting!

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@wwdcorp "with that money u get a Wii , two more controllers, 1 memory, and myabe 2 games..." Memory card? The Wii has 512 megs of on board flash, for saves, and downloads. I doubt you will run out of room that quickly.

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battalion wars 2 is confirmed. KICK ASS.

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Great another Battalion Wars.

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Thats it? These games were already known to the public to come out. I thought this surprise would've been much more. I guess tgs it is then.

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New Mario Strikers, Battalion Wars this what We all should have know by now from Nintendo. Not Supprise.

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what about a sequel to Eternal Darkness? oh, wait, silicon knights is making some worthless trilogy on the 360. OK, well, how about a new mario kart then? Triple Dash! nah, that's be too extreme. but still, i just want double dash with the level design quality of Mario Kart DS and online play.

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What a surprise, Europe gets another coloured DS Lite, while we people in North America stil stand alone with the white ds lite, Ive already bought the DS Lite but if we ever get a new colour here I might just have to buy it aswell.

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damn they didn't say anything about the price they are teasing us big time

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Great! I need to know when it comes out, though. I don't care about the price.

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They said they would release more info by the end of this month.

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shibipocanibo ; all am trying to say is that the main news and important stuff will be shwon on TGS, second not even countries in europe were really into Liepzig, just take a look at other european gaming webpages. Liepzig is yet too small and doesnt have that much media coverage. So no point on releasing real important news. Do not misunderstand me, all am trying to do is give some objective argument why wouldnt companies like sony, ms, and nintendo give much importance ti liepzig, if you search a bit youll find , that even sony has a really small place for the playstation3 (place i mean station for advertising and playing games, they will not have playable demos or anything, at least not confirmed yet; i read this on a webpage so it might or not be true, yet again, you might find something interesting in eurogamer.net ign.com .... just so u can have more point of views....and shibipocanibo dont sweat it, keep it cool ok

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The pink DS lite was a huge hit in Japan. There is also high demand for it in the US. You nintendo haters really need to do some research. There are six million unsold psps sitting on retailer shelves while Nintendo cannot produce enough DS lites to meet demand.

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Sweet Gmaes man But they need to realeas the Navy and Black one to America

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Nothing interesting here,.

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