Australian Wii pricing details officially revealed

Wii News | Virtual console and accessory pricing revealed.

Nintendo Australia have finally confirmed the Australian Virtual Console details. Virtual Console games will be available to download using Wii Points. For the titles available in 2006, NES games will be available for 500 Wii Points (approximately $7.50), Super NES games will available for 800 Wii Points (approximately $12.00) and N64 games will be available for 1000 Wii Points, (approximately $15.00). Sega Mega Drive games will be available for 800 Wii points. Wii points required for titles available in 2007 may vary. Wii Points Cards will be available to buy in retail stores and are estimated to retail at around $30.00 for 2000 Wii Points.

Additional Wii Remote controllers will sell for SRP$69.95. Accessories such as the Nunchuk controller and the Classic controller will be available for SRP$29.95. Consumers will also have the option of purchasing a Wii Play + Wii Remote bundle for only SRP$79.95. Wii Play is a compilation title that contains 9 games on one disc. With fantastic games such as Shooting, Laser Hockey, Billiards, Table Tennis and more, Wii Play + Wii Remote represents great value for those looking to add a second Wii Remote to their collection.

A Wii Component Video Cable will also be available, for a higher quality video signal, at SRP$49.95.

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62 Comments

camds

5 years ago

well for roms anyway
N64 Cart Size / Rom Dump

32Mbit = 4Mb
64Mbit = 8Mb
96Mbit = 12Mb
128Mbit = 16Mb
256Mbit = 32Mb
512Mbit = 64Mb

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

UmbrellaCEO wrote

Sin Ogaris wrote

Simple, you won't be downloading gigs worth of movies and demos.

Now I think, i could be wrong on this, but I believe the largest N64 cartridges were 512Mb (or 64MB). So the Wii's internal memory would allow 8 N64 games. A 2GB card offers room for another 32 more.

Technically you would, if you're downloading demos for wii. Average demo must be like 400-600mb.

That's assuming there are Wii demos. We don't know that for sure.

Nova Prime

5 years ago

Frozencry wrote

I know, I did exaggerate a little I'll admit, but if you're an enthusiast gamer who wants the best possible image quality with high res, then upgrading your video card relatively often is pretty neseccary, and will cost you alot of money. Plus as of late, technology has been moving ridiculously fast, especially with the GPU's. I mean, look at the 7900GTX. My uncle bought it and it runs games fine, but then next year we're going to have games like Crysis which can't get the best quality due to DX10, and the 7000 series doesn't support DX10 at all. That's what kind of s**ts me about computers, and why I stick heavily to consoles.

Using the same example as you, you won't be able to have Crysis looking as good on a console either. I believe Crytek even said something to that effect themselves.

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

I suspect Crysis is being built from the ground up with Direct X 10 in mind.

Cerebral

5 years ago

Sin Ogaris wrote

Realistically a lot more than 8. IIRC, only 2 N64 games were 64MB in size: Conker's and RE2.

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

Well yeah, but I'm just going by maximums here to cover bases. Even 8 is a fair amount, expecially if you're thinking of getting them all at once.

legend166

5 years ago

And I'm 99% sure you can delete the games and then download them again at no extra cost.

Ellegarden

5 years ago

Sin Ogaris wrote

UmbrellaCEO wrote

Sin Ogaris wrote

Technically you would, if you're downloading demos for wii. Average demo must be like 400-600mb.

That's assuming there are Wii demos. We don't know that for sure.

I thought there was confirmation of this, I definatly know wii will be able to send demos to DS. But looking live or ps3 network thing, it looks likely.

Frozencry

5 years ago

legend166 wrote

And I'm 99% sure you can delete the games and then download them again at no extra cost.

I can confirm that. The Nintendo rep at the Wii event let us know that once you pay, you don't pay again and can download as many times.

Karai Pantsu

5 years ago

That is great to know! Kudos to Nintendo for not being pricks and making you pay each time.

Zarnoss

5 years ago

Can you also upload those VC games to a memory card to take over to mates places?

Frozencry

5 years ago

^I know that with PS3 if you log into your own profile on another persons console, you can play those games free and such, but when you go back to your own console and log in that person loses the ability to play them. I would think it'd be the same system with Wii. I'm not sure about it though.

Nev

5 years ago

The only Wii game that remotely interests me so far is Zelda.

And since I have reasonably good eyesight, the component cables are a must-have.

So so far, I'm looking at $400 + $100 + $50. Which is $550. $50 shy of what the 360 costs at the moment. I could never justify that kind of expenditure for a game I'd only really consider buying for a system I already owned, and certainly not for $100.

As for the component cables... That's the single most ludicrous case of profiteering I've ever seen... well, aside from Monster Cables. The component cables for my DVD player are great, and only cost me $15. Of course there's no reason the Wii couldn't just have a standard component connection. Gouging aside.

On a side note, do we even know if PAL Wii games support progressive scan? Since we kinda got the short end of the stick when it came to the GameCube.

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