Nintendo announced that its new Wii console sold through to more than 600,000 consumers in the Americas in just its first 8 days of availability. That's a rate of nearly one per second continuously since its Nov. 19 launch. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess achieved sales of more than 454,000 copies.

Nintendo DS owners will soon be able to enjoy more than just games from their favorite handheld console with the Nintendo MP3 Player, launching across Europe on 8th December 2006. Nintendo fans can use their handheld console as a full-fledged, high-quality MP3 player.

The Wii Menu serves as the main portal to the different functions of Wii, and is designed to evolve throughout the life of the system. Some functions can be used right out of the box and more will roll out during the next few weeks and into next year, with content continually changing over time.

Sonic Solutions announced that Nintendo has chosen Sonic CinePlayer CE DVD Navigator to bring high-quality DVD movie viewing to a future version of the Wii, scheduled for the latter half of 2007.

With a mere few weeks until the launch of the Wii game console, Nintendo is throwing big bashes to celebrate the momentous occasion. From New York to Los Angeles and untold places in between, shoppers won't have to wait long to be the first to buy Nintendo's Wii console when it goes on sale at the stroke of midnight the morning of Sunday, Nov. 19.

Within the first five weeks of launch, Wii owners can pick from up to 32 games, representing the most diverse, and most exciting, console video game library available. Additionally 30 Virtual console titles will become available, bringing it to a total of no less than 62 games to play during the holidays.

THQ announced its launch line-up for Nintendo's next-generation Wii, based on some of the most popular television and movie properties, including DisneyPixar's Cars, as well as Avatar: The Last Airbender, Barnyard and SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab.

Hudson will be releasing two games for Japan's Wii launch this December: Fabled flight game Wing Island (Working Title) and Korinpa, an addictive game where you use the Wii controller to gyrate the playing surface in order to guide your ball to its goal. In total Hudson has 8 titles in the works for the Nintendo Wii

Nintendo just announced at its conference in London that the Wii will launch in Europe on December 8, for 249 Euro. Europe will get the same bundle, console, one Wii remote, one Nunchuck, 5 Wii Sports titles as North America. At launch there will be approximately 15 - 20 titles such as Red Steel, Rayman, Need for Speed Carbon, Tony Hawk, Super Monkey Ball, with a price range from 49 - 59 Euros.

Nintendo Wii will arrive in Australia on December 7th, and will retail for $399.95. The price includes one wireless Wii Remote controller, one Nunchuk controller and five different Wii Sports games on one disc, which anyone can play using simple movements, experienced or not.

To go along with the recent Wii console tidbits, Nintendo also provided assets for the following launch titles: Avatar: The Last Airbender ~ Battalion Wars 2 ~ Big Brain Academy ~ Chicken Little: Ace in Action ~ Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 ~ Elebits ~ Excite Truck ~ The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess ~ Madden NFL 07 ~ Mario Strikers Charged ~ Metroid Prime 3 ~ Super Mario Galaxy ~ Trauma Center: Second Opinion ~ WarioWare: Smooth Moves ~ Wii Sports

Nintendo Wii will offer players a variety of entertainment, information and communication Channels that add value to the console and make it a device that the entire family can enjoy. Watch photos, weather forecasts, news, shopping and so forth ...

As was already revealed late last night, Nintendo announced the North American launch of its Wii home video game console is set for Nov. 19, at an MSRP of just $249.99. The price includes one wireless Wii Remote controller, one Nunchuk controller and the groundbreaking collection of five different Wii Sports games on one disc.

During its press conference in Japan, Nintendo announced that it will launch its new Wii game console on December 2 in Japan for 25,000 yen ($250). 16 titles will be available at launch, including The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Odoru! Made in Wario, Pokémon Battle Revolution, and Wii Sports will be sold separately.

An article from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer referring to tomorrow's NY Times reveals Nintendo will announce that the Wii will be available Nov. 19 for $250 and will include Wii Sports titles (tennis, golf, baseball and bowling) bundled with the console. On top of that, it also reveals that there will be 25 to 30 Wii games available this year, including Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, and they will be priced at $50. Wii will be able to browse the web, and classic downloadable games will cost $5-10.

IBM Corp. said it has been shipping microprocessors that will be used to power Nintendo's upcoming Wii video game console since July. IBM, who also makes chips for PS3 and Xbox 360, earlier this year signed a multiyear agreement to supply Nintendo with chips made at its East Fishkill, N.Y. plant.

With the news of the European PS3 launch delay, certain competitors might be eager to seize on the opportunity to push extra units over the holidays. Nintendo was rather subdued in its comments, while Microsoft was a bit more forthcoming, while industry analysts say the delay won't affect things too much, except for European stores who might be in a jam, and predict Nintendo might have the most to gain. Read more for details ...

At last week's Leipzig Games Convention, Nintendo passed around a flyer revealing plans to release an addon allowing your NDS and GBAs to play MP3s. You will be able to store up to 500 songs on a 2 GB SD card, and the device will plug into the DS' slot 2, show all the pertinent information through its interface, come in a variety of skins and has its own headphone port. The retail price seems set for 29.99 Euros and is tentatively scheduled for October 8, 2006.

Nintendo announced that on Sept. 13, it will introduce two new Nintendo DS colors, Onyx and Coral Pink, joining Polar White.

In an interview with USA Today, Nintendo's Reginald Fils-Aime stated that : "We will offer online-enabled games that the consumers will not have to pay a subscription fee for. They'll be able to enjoy that right out of the box. The Wii console is going to be Wi-Fi enabled, so essentially, you'll be able to plug it in and go. It won't have hidden fees or costs."

A memo sent to various Virgin Megastores in the UK may hold the key to the still undisclosed Nintendo Wii launchdate. The letter, supposedly sent by Nintendo UK's Head of Games, reveals that 10 stores will be receiving a "countdown" clock later today, which should give us a clearer picture of when the Wii is actually going to launch. Since this was sent to Viurgin Megastores specirfically, we assume other outlets around the UK most likely received the same notice, if this letter of course is legit and not somebody playing a sick joke with our Wiilings...

Nintendo is expanding its service offering to include an internet browser from Opera Software, optimised to run on the Nintendo DS. The Nintendo DS Browser launches across Europe on 6th October 2006.

In addition to previously announced titles Rayman Raving Rabbids and Red Steel, Ubisoft is working on Monster 4X4 World Circuit, Open Season, a game based on the popular Far Cry franchise, Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WW II, and GT Pro Series. Prince of Persia is also in development, scheduled for March 2007.

Nintendo North America today revealed its non-Wii release lineup for the rest of 2006. While the new Wii console will arrive in the fourth quarter of 2006, Nintendo has plenty of other things to keep people busy until then, such as Yoshi’s Island 2, and Elite Beat Agents.

In less than two years since its Nov. 21, 2004 launch, Nintendo has sold more than 21 million NDS systems worldwide, which equates to 23 systems per minute, one every two seconds, non-stop since launch. By comparison, Apple shipped one million of its ever- popular iPod music players in its first 19 months.