Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Nintendo announces new Pokemon game for Wii & launch details



Nintendo held a press conference today where they released some information about their company operations, the Wii, and DS as well. A few key points Mr. Iwata made were…

The Wii’s official price and launch date will be announced by September

Nintendo plans to supply 2 million DS units per month worldwide

Nintendo expects to sell through 16 million DS units by the end of the fiscal year, March 2007

“Although I will not call a certain sales goal for the Wii console, I can promise that we will reach sales clearly over those of the Gamecube.” Nintendo President Satoru Iwata (loose translation)

Mr. Iwata also stated that even if the Wii meets Nintendo’s sales projections, it will have little impact on Nintendo’s profit…as far as short term is concerned.

Pokemon will have wi-fi worldwide voicechat.
Shipping 4 million by the end of the calendar year (worldwide)

Pokemon Battle Revolution will be out a few months after Pearl/Diamond and will link with the DS game.

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As long as we can reserve the Wii before September, it should be ok for everyone. The price of this system should not be a huge concern because it will be cost effective for all.




11 comments:

Anonymous said...

If the graphics of Pokemon Battle Revolution were in-game, then this should shut the graphic whores up because I can't think of any Wii game that looks as good as that.

Anonymous said...

Actually, that IS ingame. Iwata said it, and there is a video of it.

Anonymous said...

Hex

if it is or if its not?
im not much of a pokemon player but i will be buying this game.
as long as its fun im ok with it.

Metaldave said...

I'm not a Pokemon fan either but as far as graphics are concerned, the game looks like CG-quality. And yes the game is in real-time. Sounds like ATI wasn't lying about the graphics only being the "tip of the iceberg"....

game on said...

I do have to agree. I graphics look stunning and I am planning on getting this one as soon as it is released (and I am not a pokemon fan!)

Anonymous said...

GFX look awesome. I just hope they make it ''The Pokemon game we've all been waiting for''.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agwalb_OaV4

Metaldave said...

I didn't know there was a Pokemon game we've all been waiting for :) but this one does look exciting even if its just the graphics.

Anonymous said...

:P I saw it on a couple of places and just repeated it here :P What I mean is a real MMORPG with huge worlds and a lot of or total freedom to do what ever you want. You can fight with everyone in the world etc. I think a lot of fans would love something like that, I would ;)

Anonymous said...

the next step is to make a "ds player" like the game boy player for the gamecube,cause i will never get a ds(parents...****)and my life(as a gamer)will be perfect:)!

Brent said...

i wish they would make a pokemon game with a grand theft auto type engine. That would be amazing! i can just imagine it!

Anonymous said...

they should make it a free range game included with the battling with online players, that would be sweet. id like to try to catch pokemon and auctually go through the pokemon world 3D instead of just battling. i could see how id get tierd of doing the same thing over and over again. but i guess when it comes out we'll see what its all about. maybe it wont be repetative.