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Geek Culture / Wii price and launch date revealed!

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Kentaree
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Posted: 16th Sep 2006 15:14
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That's a pain, then again, never really bothered with imports myself

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MiR
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Posted: 16th Sep 2006 15:50
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Quote: "That's a pain, then again, never really bothered with imports myself"

Me neither. It´s only really viable if you want to get something before everybody. It hardly ever ends up cheaper. It only costs 196€/130pounds? in the US but if you add on post and packaging, the price of a plug (ok so that´s only a few cents) and the price of one of thse voltage turny-upers it would probably come out the same or dearer. Of course all that doesn´t matter as the thing is region locked. No bizarre Japanese games for us then.

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Bizar Guy
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Posted: 17th Sep 2006 05:43
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Wii!

Best system ever. I'll repeat that statement here after I buy one.

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indi
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Posted: 17th Sep 2006 08:38
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I wouldn't be surprised if they used a DVD region setup.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 17th Sep 2006 14:12
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Apparently the Wii won't play DVD films at all. I read yesterday they had kept that functionality out to keep the price down. Probably be a software version that you have to pay extra for at a guess.

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MiR
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Posted: 17th Sep 2006 15:55
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Quote: "Probably be a software version that you have to pay extra for at a guess.
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I read that they were originaly going to sell an attachment to allow dvd playback but decided against it due to the price and availability of dvd players today.

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Kentaree
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Posted: 17th Sep 2006 16:11
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Yep, thats what I read, it makes sense too

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Jeku
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Posted: 18th Sep 2006 06:38
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I don't care if it doesn't play DVDs--- I have my 360 for that anyways I'm happy to keep the price down to a minimum.


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 18th Sep 2006 07:39
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Who cares if it plays DVD's, psh, just buy a DVD player, you'll get more features, and quality anyhow most likely. Heh, my house is usually technologically a mile behind (or to be exact 1.609344 kilometers for you Europeans) and we have, lets see *begins counting* 7 devices for playing DVD's

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Dazzag
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Posted: 18th Sep 2006 10:28
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Um, wasn't said I was bothered, just bringing up the topic after the region coding was mentioned. Oh, and I have.... hmmm, I think 20+ devices that will play movies off DVD disks. So no, not exactly bothered about that one.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 18th Sep 2006 10:50
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I wasn't saying that to you directly, in fact I wasn't really saying it to anyone, just posting my thoughts on the matter. I see alot of people complaining about the no DVD player thing alot, but it's really no big deal.

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Crazy Ninja
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Posted: 18th Sep 2006 11:03
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If you don't have a DVD player today you are like way behind man. I really doubt anybody deep inside cars but they complain to make Nintendo look bad. They're just poor losers.

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indi
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Posted: 18th Sep 2006 13:11
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Im referring to the regions having location numbers not a player,

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