{"id":14674,"date":"2011-10-12T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"updated-wii-console-out-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/14674-updated-wii-console-out-in-november","title":{"rendered":"Updated Wii console out in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has announced that it will be releasing the redesigned Wii console in the UK on 4 November.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo is calling it the Wii Family Edition, and the bundle includes  Wii Sports and last year&#8217;s mini-game compilation Wii Party.<\/p>\n<p>We are still awaiting confirmation from local Nintendo distributor Core Gaming on when the product will hit SA retail. We do however have a recommended retail price.<\/p>\n<p>The new bundle carries the current Wii bundle&rsquo;s recommended retail  price of R1,599.<\/p>\n<p>It includes a newly configured Wii console in white &#8211;  the reconfigured Wii console has been designed to sit horizontally and does not feature backwards compatibility with Game Cube. The  console comes with a Wii Remote Plus controller and a Nunchuk.<\/p>\n<p>The bundle includes Wii Sports and Wii Party. Wii Party boasts  more than 80 group-play mini-games, with support for up to four Wii  Remote controllers. Wii Sports offers five sports games using motion  control: Tennis; Baseball; Golf; Bowling; and Boxing.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has also revealed a new Wii Fit Plus pack which will launch a few days earlier on 2 November.<\/p>\n<p>The Wii Fit Plus pack will include a black Balance Board and a copy of Wii Fit Plus. An additional bundle that includes an original black Wii will also be available.<\/p>\n<p>Then of course there is the new Blue Wii bundle which will hit retail shelves on 18 November in conjunction with the launch of Mario &amp; Sonic at the London 2012 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18858-Updated-Nintendo-Wii-console-is-out-in-November\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Updated Wii console out in November\"><strong>Updated Wii console out in November<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identical to current Wii but without Game Cube support<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}