The forthcoming Wii Mini doesn’t include an SD card slot, unlike the original Wii and new Wii U. This means that transferring saves is not possible on the compact console; it cannot import or export saves. Also, unlike the six-year-old Wii, Wii Mini can’t connect to the internet and doesn’t play Nintendo GameCube games.The redesigned Wii console launches in Canada on December 7th and will cost $99.99.
Nintendo of Canada’s Matt Ryan also detailed the difference between the Wii Mini and Wii U markets this holiday season, “… they are two very different products for a different type of player. It really depends on the experience that players want and their preferred investment in their gaming console. If a player just wants to play Wii games, Wii mini is a great choice at a great price. If the player wants more from their system, Wii U is the latest innovation of fun from Nintendo.”
Yeah this totally ain’t gonna confuse the living crap outta people.
But it looks fuckin bad ass!
this should be like 60 bucks
Can it play games?
Yes…
This is the greatest response on mynintendonews!
HA! Greatest response ever.
Ohh so they are releasing a shitty wii, to make the wii u look better
The Wii U already looks better, this one just looks more bad ass and doesn’t need no internet.
Plus, give me atleast 50 games on the Wii that had online?
A lot of NES, SNES, N64 games plus Sega and other classics, not to mention the download games like World of Goo. I assure you there were more than 50.
Ohh so they are releasing a shitty wii, to make the wii u look better
Isnt that the reason sony made the super slim and Microsoft the Xbox elite?
Oh no,
We fans knew that Nintendo could learn a few things from their competitors, But we didn’t want them to learn this!
Bullshit
Honestly? I’d sooner pay another $10 on this than be unable to connect online or transfer my saves!
I think it is a waste if it doesn’t have AT LEAST those aspects. I really hope they don’t lose money from lack of consoles sold. The Wii U should have had these color schemes instead.
So…it’s practically worthless?
Yup.
I’d only buy this for the wii remote and nunchuck and then give it to my niece and nephew since their dad has plenty of wii motes and no wii. The lack of no online is so stupid. Yeah I know the wii doesn’t have many great online games but Mario kart wii is one of the best.
And Monster Hunter.
And no SD card? What if you run out of space for VC games??
You won’t even be able to download VC game, their’s no internet.
I forgot that. And Wii LAN adapter won’t work either for those who have one?
this thing will be discontinued faster than you can say “commercial failure”
And those who want 1will get the better priced bundles
Gba micro anyone?
Basically is a disposable wii
And the internal memory still be 512 MB?
Brew blocked!
oh no I thought this was going be an awesome console for homebrew. maybe there will be some usb hack?
oh ok, i have a question then
what the fuck is the point of making this?
Silly, the point is to put the wii on top of your papers,so they don’t fall of your desk.
your picture and your name made me lmfao hahaha
Jesus Christ. Who approved this?
mostly everyone here….
So almost everyone in the comment section of My Nintendo News approved the idea to make the Wii Mini? Gotcha.
What are u talking about. Almost everyone in thw comment section thinks this console is a stupid idea.
When someone say “but atleast it does look good….” doesn’t mean they are dying of excitement, that means that they try to find a single good reason for it to be released.
Only reason I can see behind this is to turn non-gamwers into consumers. But that doesn’t mean I approve of it, just that I get why it is being released.
Nintendo releases outdated, useless hardward. Story at 11.
But I really want Animal Crossing.
Ahh I really wanted this one but with no internet, no SD slot and no GC support there’s just no point.
I’ve seen regular Wii’s with Gamecube BC sell for less.
And thats the 1 im hunting for
How could it sell less than something that isn’t out yet?
He means less as in the price is lower.
Well it does look good, but that’s all it has got going for it. Everything else about it is shit.
personally i think it looks like crap.. but that’s a matter of opinion
Put it down all you like, some people like streamlined products. My parents used to go to the store and get those fancy printers which all have scanners, copiers, faxes etc all built in and it would always break down every week and I would have a hell of a time fixing it for them. When the thing kicked the bucket for good I took them down to NCIX and got them a basic black and white printer with no other features for 50 bucks. The thing works like a dream and I was able to go away for a year without having to repair it the whole time. It’s not like they needed those features, they just need to print an email they get from work occasionally.
So Nintendo releases a technologically outdated console which, due to the lack of SD card slot, can’t even be soft-modded? Pfft, yeah like it’s gonna sell well just because of its looks.
Anyone getting a Wii now has either
A. Not enough money for a Wii U (which is excusable, but they’re stupid for not just saving their money)
B. Cheap ass parents.
Or C. Parents too stupid to realize the Wii U is a new console.
Or
D) homebrew
but this one is useless without the SD card slot.
exactly, even though i (happily) have my wii u, i still have my original wii purely so i could play all of my backed up wii games and emulators.
Maybe people can’t save their money because they may be in unfortunate situations? How does that make them stupid? I’m seriously getting sick of people thinking everyone should be afford the latest greatest technology with ease or by saving. Volunteer like I do and you will see why people cannot afford things.
I’m just saying instead of buying a Wii, they could save the money instead.
I saved 5 months for my WiiU and the games I bought!
I know a kid who visits here also earned like 3-4 bucks a day (online Surveys) to get his WiiU.
Probably not everyone is as driven, motivated, or has access to the tools to do so, But I know a lot of people who hauled ass to be ready at launch! :D
stop bitching about this, its only for canada.
the only thing that looks worthwhile is the wiimote since its in red.
Hey, at least it’s just $100!
…So much for the money…
what a fucking piece of shit console. only collectors will buy this shit.
And parents of very small kuds just to play
Non online kiddie games, thats oviously the
Market for this
this console wouldn’t appeal to me at all Oo
a full fledged wii only costs about 30$ more.. including mario kart.. i just don’t see the point to release something like that.. especially in canada which isn’t exactly a high value market for consoles
on an entirely unrelated note: is there anyone here who owns a wii-u and a power meter (you know the ones you plug into the power socket and then connect the electronic device to) and would like to check the power draw of the system when rendering a demanding 3D title (such as black ops 2, assassins creed 3, arkham city or zombiU) and tell me here? :)
i know anandtech has already done this but for some inexplicable reason they did it with NSMBU which uses mostly sprites and can’t really be called demanding.. and i was unable to find any other figures on power draw of the system
thanks :)
Now i really wonder how much money it takes to make a Wii.
It is made in china to.
So .50¢ maybe?
XD im kidding of course.
Not fucking worth it.
Newsnow.co great sourse for news sickr it has looaads of news there.btw I followed you on twitter
What next? Are they going to announce it doesn’t have sound output?
Lol,this guy deserves a reward!
or maybe it does not support accessories like wii balance and wii wheel.
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So it’s a piece of shit.
Even nintendo fans can’t justify this thing. A regular wii is already cheap.
i’m curious how even nintendo could justify this console Oo
All I can think of, iss Nintendo had a metric fuck-ton of spare parts, and could throw these things together for $25 bucks, Sell them at $100, then $80, then $70 – then what they can’t sell, they write off for some kind of tax break.
IDK, just my theory.
i think a lof of the hardware in this console is going to be custom made parts judging by the size of it
as far as i know it doesn’t need ventilation either which suggests a shrinked CPU/GPU
They make be able to shrink the size if you remove all the shit they stripped off. I replaced a Disc drive once, and with a smaller, stripped down motherboard (so yes, that would be custom) you could plug in the CPU, GPU and disk drive at a fraction of the space.
Again, my theory.
IF what you say turns out to be true… This is one of Nintendo’s decisions I feel was really, really dumb.
well it still doesn’t explain the lack of a vent of any kind.. and that in spite of the case being much smaller allowing less heat to be dissipated
in order to lower TDP of the main power consuming components, that is CPU and GPU, and keep their performance on the same level, which is of course necessary, you need to shrink the feature size of the chips (for example from the 90nm feature size the hollywood is made in down to 55 or 45nm) which would mean you need to manufacture an entirely new set of chips
oh i just thought of something:
chances are they were able to use CPUs and GPUs from wii-u production that didn’t pass the quality checks (for example because some of the cores/shaders are damaged) and put them into this system running with wii specs .. that would get them a 45nm CPU and a 40nm GPU capable of running wii games and with low enough power consumption not to require active cooling
this might also explain why they’re only introducing it to such a small market so far.. 40nm and 45nm processes are very well established and there shouldn’t be that many deficient chips
to be honest i’m not even sure there would be enough to warrant the creation of a new console.. it’s just a guess
Thats why its only coming out to Canada!
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Wait a minute. Nintendo makes their handhelds bigger, and now making their consoles smaller? Seems legit.
#NintendoLogic
Lol, OK, that was kinda funny.
Fucking Little cunts you’re the pieces of shit not this,
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Is there a point to this post? :S
I think his medication ran out and he’s having some kinda mental breakdown…
do you want me to call the doctor for you?
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HAI. NO. NINTENDO SUCKS NOW. IF YOU DISAGREE…
Nintendo… this is a pointless release. Why bother? With no internet support you know out a huge function of it. No Wii Shop at all, certain games are pointless to buy. Why would they even release this terrible variation? It looks cool, but I guess looks are deceiving.
i’m typing this on my wii u and its awesome.
i know thus completely off topic but are there rubber protectors for the wii u gamepad?
I don’t see the sense in the Mini Wii, looks nice but if they are taking away a lot of the features from the Wii it won’t sale…. unless this marketed towards parents who are fed up of their kids bitching about how they are losing a match on Call of Duty: Modern Borefare
The Wii Mini looks Wii-tod-ed
lets be real. they took the SD slot out so whoever buys it, won’t be able to hack it. fucking bastards.
And it still cost $99… that shit should cost $50.
@DarkD: well my dads crappy old printer broke down so he got this sweet new printer where you can basicly print from anywhere, his work, in the yard, ect. it also has facebook so he can print his facebook photos and more, if u ask me, he’s got one awesome printer, and it so far has had no problems.
also it would be cool to print things from ur CPU with the Gamepad.
Kid, let’s be foreal.That’s the most stupid feature I heard to add to the gamepad,even the paper screen plug-in thing that Iwata showed was pretty much useless…
This is the Nintendo version of the PSP Go!
At least the PSP Go has internet. The only thing that this thing has going for it is looks. I’d buy it if it was $50 though, not worth $100.
so my thing is… why did they not release the original wii in this model? or the wii u with the model? Hell all they had to do was make the model a bit longer and wider for the Wii U version of the model..
“why did they not release the original wii in this model?”
it could be a model to get rid of faulty chips they couldn’t use for the wii-u but were fine to use in a wii.. if that’s the case then production numbers of this console will never be very high
“or the wii u with the model?”
heat dissipation
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