Nintendo Wii Mini Announced Exclusively For Canada
Nintendo's new Wii Mini has been made official. The new console, prematurely leaked in the past weeks, is Canada-only at least initially where it will be sold at CA$99.99 from December 7.
This is a compact refresh to the original Wii with a few drawbacks such as no internet connectivity to keep the price down. Nintendo has trimmed out all online functionality among other things.
In addition to no online playback or, indeed, streaming media services like Netflix there'll be no GameCube backward compatibility in the new Wii Mini. The bundle will include black and red Wii Mini console and a matching red Wii Remote Plus and nunchuck, together with a sensor bar, power adapter, and composite cable. HDTV component cable will be sold separately. Also Nintendo claims there's compatibility with "most" of the existing Wii accessories.
Nintendo says the Wii Mini will work with over 1,400 disc-based Wii games, and that no further information about broader availability outside of Canada is available. As Nintendo has recently mentioned, development on Wii games has stopped and they would be focusing their efforts on the Wii U, so the redesigned and cheap previous-generation console is likely to attract gamers who dont mind playing current and older games.
Source: Engadget, Ubergizmo
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