Dolby Labs announced today what it’s support for the Nintendo Wii and Sony PS3 consoles will be. The Wii will utilize Dolby’s Pro Logic II, giving audiophile Wii fans a bit of a shot, but, inline with Nintendo’s stance on gameplay over technology. Dolby PLII is a non-digital, “5.1″ technology which is currently used by the last generation consoles as well as the Microsoft 360. The Sony PS3 naturally will be a different story. Costs be damned, Sony went all out, including Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound for games and Dolby Digital with Dolby TrueHD for 7.1 channels of pure Blu-Ray movie playback bliss, for those who decide to sell a kidney in order to actually buy the thing.

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Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about, some great looking box art for the upcoming Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Nintendo Gamecube and Wii. Though I think the Gamecube version looks so much better, I’ll be getting the Wii version I’m afraid. Oh, who am I kidding, I’ll be getting both, I knew I couldn’t sneak that one past you all.

See the boxart after the jump..

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Man, I really suck at Mario Kart DS, but even more important, I can never create an emblem for my cars, you know, to at least look cool while I’m getting slaughtered on the track. Thankfully, there is the awesome community site DSicons.com, a great little resource for all of us fashion concious Mario Kart racers who need the perfect icon on our rides before we hit the track. You’ll still need a little bit of artistic ability, but, with the zoomed walkthroughs that DSicons provide, it’s much easier for even an artistic clutz like myself to get a hot little hammer and sickle rolling on the front of my little Standard YS.

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The newest version of the Zelda franchise has been making our mouths water for months, maybe years. Now that Nintendo is releasing more information on the upcoming Twilight Princess versions for Gamecube and Wii, we’re being driven into a frenzy! IGN caught some new footage of Zelda: TP while at the Wii announcement in New York and happily shared it with the world, which we’re more than happy to re-gift to you.

Watch the video and lust for the Wii some more after the jump..
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Ok ok, another Wii post, blah blah, yeah yeah, we know we know. Those around the games world and especially us, are turning into ravin’ rabids (see what I did there?) over the recent Nintendo announcements for their upcoming new console, the Wii. With all of the launch details out in the wild now, we just wanted to wrap up the varying dates and price that Nintendo are throwing our way this holiday season, so get our your wallets and get ready.

U.S
- November 19, 2006
- $250 US (Roughly €196)

Canada
- November 19, 2006
- $279.95 CAN (roughly $250 US)

Japan
- December 2, 2006
- ¥25,000 (Roughly $213 US)

Australia / New Zealand
- December 7, 2006
- $399.95 AU (Roughly $300 US)

EU
- December 8, 2006
- €249 ($314 US)
- £179 ($336 US)

Yeah, even though Europe gets screwed again, at least we’ll get the damn thing before Christmas.

Ohhhh, today has been just one long Wii revelations party and yes, we’ve already pre-ordered our Wii, booya! After their press presentation, Nintendo issued their official press release as well as their list of “launch-period” games, which is awesome, purely awesome. /Fan rant…

Read the games list and press release after the jump..

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Nintendo Wii in the US, November 19th, $249.99 at over 25,000 distribution points. Hardware, cables, sensor bar, 1 Wii remote and 1 nunchuck controller in the box.

Wii bowling, Wii Boxing, Wii Golf, Wii Baseball, Wii Tennis = Wii Sports which will be packed into the Wii box. Legend of Zelda and Excite Truck as part of the 30 planned Wii titles for Nintendo’s launch window (about half on launch day, rest following through 2006), software pricing to remain consistent with Gamecube ($49.99 for first-party titles).

Trauma Center, Madden 07, Need for Speed: Carbon, Elebits, Super Monkey Ball, Metal Slug Anthology, Red Steel, RRR all part of planned launch titles. Metroid Prime 3 coming in 2007.

Wii channels menu, news, weather, software shop, photo and others. 10 Virtual Console / Channel titles per month, including Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong, Super Mario 64, Super Mario World and more.

Wii points can be purchased online or at retailers, 2000 points = $20, purchased title available forever to re-download after purchase. Virtual Console / Channel games to cost $5-$10 each. No word on indie game developers actually getting a chance to develop VC titles.

Wii Photo channel the iPhoto of gaming? Take your SD card from your camera and plug it into your Wii. Scamble, doodle and more over your photos.

Messaging channel allows sending messages to PC users (chat?), cellphones (sms?) and to other Wii messaging users.

4 million Wii units by Dec 31st worldwide, 6 million by end of fiscal year (March 2007). US to get bulk of units, no word on if EU gets Wii this holiday season. :(

First online game in Japan at launch, Pokemon Battle Revolution, US version following shortly. Guaranteed million seller in japan.

WHEW!

Wii day is here! With the many Wii-related announcements that are popping out, Nintendo also put up a long(ish) video presentation in Japanese showing brief snippets from tons of upcoming Wii titles. I see bits of Resident Evil (!), Fire Emblem (!), Zelda (!), Metroid (!) and many others.

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We were sold on Wii Virtual Console when we read about the first batch of rumoured titles, but now we’re starting to get all antsy over here! A recent search on the ESRB ratings page shows that there are a handfull more mega-classic titles coming for the Virtual Console, this time from the publisher of every fanboy’s dreams, Sega! By visiting the ESRB search page and performing a search by platform (choose Wii, duh), you’ll see at the bottom of the list, 6 classic Sega titles, which one can only assume is coming for the VC.

Read the short list for the lazy after the jump..

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Being ravid Wii fans and always up for a little gossip, you can imagine how excited we were when this list crossed our tip box (thanks Torr). Nintendo fan site, Play-Nintendo, came upon a ‘trustworthy source’ who passed word that there are at least 26 titles slated for launch on the Wii Virtual Console, including many of the greatest gaming hits of all time. There are also rumoured to be at least 5 new titles in development for the VC, but information on those could not be obtained. More titles can be added to the VC list quite easily we’re told, so expect more (or less) exciting titles announced in the coming months.

Rumoured list of Wii Virtual Console launch titles after the jump..

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