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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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Should be 2 fun games.

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Maybe they will release more info later??? I don't care about this stuff really....

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No price or date? I guess this is where someone says, "TGS FTW!1!"

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ausome i'm getting a WII.

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pff no date i hope they announce it in this game convention i dun care about the cash thats just useless info the date is more important so i can plan my days off to play endless zelda

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Nothing to be excited about.

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I bet anything that Mario Baseball sequels is in the works as well. That would work perfect with the Wiimote.

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I might get a Wii.

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mario strikers, batallion wars, mario, advance wars, pink ds, ds lite, germany

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Wow what a surprise a New Mario game!!!!

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September is only a few days away so we will know more about the Wii's price and release days in a very short while. It doesn't really matter to me what/when they are, I'll be in line at midnight.

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Super Mario Strikers sequel=awesome, i absolutely loved that game. But oh come ONNNNNNNNNN, tell us the price and release date already!! PLEASE!!!!

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How a about a second Mario Baseball

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Im guessing they are gona try to have a near november release, and i pray that the $171 price point is correct. What I want to know is the pricing on the downloadable console games, and details as to how that system will work.

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Does it matter if we know the price now or later? It's not like you can buy it tomorrow. It's not going to be over $250 and it's not going to be free. So if you're planning on buying it, I'm sure you can make some sort of logical guess on what you should be budgeting for.

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Though I would like to know asap when and how much, I don`t expect the announcement until Early to mid-sept. However, if Nintendo is planning to launch this fall, they should seriously not pass that time frame as retailers are gearing up their stock for christmas at that time. There is also the fact that PS3 already has a price and date. Knowing that, some mass merchants may give Sony a priority since a confirm date was given and one from Nintendo is style in limbo. Uncertainty in this business in not forgiven.

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I guess that's cool. The original games at least had good premises. Maybe they'll make some really good games out of these sequels.

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BWii sounds cool (lol at awesome abbreviation) but Super Mario Strikers. Meh. I played the GCN one, and was totally unimpressed. Soccer isn't really Mario's thing.

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Really what I expected. Nintendo will more likely give the public the news later in September and will give us everything we want in one awesome press conference. I don't think the time and place is right for giving out a date and price. Why? Well I don't know...

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Battalion wars with multiplayer online versus and maybe even coop would be incredible.

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battalion wars was a very nice game, It had the switching characters thing BEFORE Bf2 Modern combat.

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Battalion wars and Mario strikers? Pitiful.

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wasnt impressed whatsoever. stayed up really really really late (UK time) to learn about yet another DSlite colour, one ive seen everywhere on the internet, and two wii games theres no way in hell im gunna buy. myeh. roll on september.

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well if release info is announced sept 14, i guess we can say goodbye to an oct 02 launch date. but who knows, two weeks for pre-order is enough for me.

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Playable already? Wow Nintendo has a whole lineup of killer games in store for the Wii.

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that was a stupid announcement...... more DS Lite colors for Europe when NA still only has white? I dont even like Super Mario Strikers or Battalion Wars..... I wasnt expecting a big price and release date but at the very least i expected an announcement about Wiiconnect24 and the VC

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thats awesome...i dont expect to see news intil a few weeks intil launch(wii)

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A litle informantion, came from nintendo.

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not quite the big news we were waiting for, but we'll see on september 14th

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What about Mario Kart will it be relesded on the wii

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wow! great to hear more games in the works for Wii. Pitty about lack of price and date info...

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Batallion Wars 2! Smells good.

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Well there's one show left for nintendo to announce the wii date and price. I forgot the name of show maybe its Tokyo Game Show but i know its in september.

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That kinda sux. Oh well, at least we got Batallion Wars 2. I've been hoping for that game for so long now. And now with wifi multiplayer. Even better! Oh well, I wish they had some more interesting stuff. Maybe later...

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Now if only they could put Spore on the Wii.

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Man I was hoping for a date- I mean how much money do I need to set aside!? This is ridicluous but at the same time Ninty need to play their cards close to theirs chests because certain companies like to Copy Nintendo's strategies!

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saw the screen shots for BWii, looks just like the first one for the Gamecube . lame.

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Not a very exciting Press Conference. Nintendo needs to be a little more giving towards their fans, waiting to big announcments. Very dissapointing.

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All Great news, keep 'em coming. Still waiting for the release Date.. Price doesn't matter that much.

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NO PRICE?! NO DATE!?!?! Well strikers with Wifi is cool

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I want a date and a price for the Wii. We'll have to wait ...

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Can't remeber the link, but look at the official nintendo magazine from europes website. guess what. Both strikers and bwii are online! Bwii will have three modes : assault, co-op and skirmish. Oh yeah, the link is: << LINK REMOVED >>, just go home to find the strikers one.

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yes, Bitalion Wars is back, i thought they were done with it, but its back with full speed, one of my favourite games in 2005, it was a sleeper hit, and super mario strikes, i couldn't ask for more, heck Lahm loves it, ok thats it am going to buy a Bayern Munich T-Shirt with Lahm on it, he was so awsome at World Cup, who needs Owne Hargereevs when you got Lahm in Munich?

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LAHM!!!!!!!!!!!! best wingback on the planet.

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Maybe they could tell us something good, im all for the wii but how many crappy mario games can they relase on the dam thing!! and what the hell is BWii? i agree with previous comments, nintendo's E3 conference was excellent but now they gone to this?

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OMG YES! Battalion Wars 2 ! going to look amazing and play amazing on the Wii !!!

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Tis a shame they didn't release any big info.

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Three other games to be revealed by Ninty - plus, at least some good news about Sonic - Secret of the rings is a working title!

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Buhhh......... Almost all Wii games will be ALIKE!!! Move controller here, swing it there... trow it somewhere! :lol: :twisted: Yes, they will be fun & new for some time, but for how long time???

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