After seeing ads from Wal-Mart and Toys'R'Us, both announcing the Nintendo Wii Console at a discount price, it's now official: the Nintendo Wii Console will have a new cheaper price here in Canada. Nintendo officially announced that his Wii Console, coming with a Wii Remote, a Nunchuk and the game Wii Sports, will be sold at CA$ 219,99 starting from today, September 27th, 2009! IT's sixty dollars less than the previous Nintendo Wii price, at $279,99! Now you'll have no excuses to don't own a Nintendo Wii for yourself, your family and, more importantly, your visitors! ;)
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I just found that Amazon Canada had a nice sale on the Rock Band 2 Special Edition Bundle (with guitar, mic and drum!) not only for the Nintendo Wii but for the Sony Playstation 3 and the Xbox 360 too! They don't mention any expiry date, but it is a limited time offer! Should be only for a few days because Amazon always list their one week sales in the videogame deals section, and this sale isn't. Here are the prices:
Rock Band 2 Special Edition Canada Sale Prices:
RockBand2 for Nintendo Wii: CAD$ 99.99 - Save $50!
RockBand2 for Sony PS3: CAD$ 99.99 - Save 50!
RockBand2 for Microsoft Xbox360: CAD$ 99.99 - Save 50!
One of my favorite "freebie" website, with some nice free offers for Canadians, always held a monthly contest where you can win some nice prices. I thought I should share this month contest prize with my readers: a Nintendo DS console! And Canada participants are eligible! Now is your chance to win a free Nintendo Ds! For all August, you can become a participant just by entering your e-mail address (you should always have a second email for things like this). Anyway, you should take a look at this great website. All they have is free offers: JustFreeStuff.com!
No tricks, no gimmicks, no nothing. Just enter your email address and at the end of August Just Free Stuff will select a winner. ( Winners will be chosen at the end of August. Open to U.S. andCanadian Residents Only. )
Now through August 1, 2009, you can save on some essential accessories for the Nintendo Wii at Amazon.ca! Yep, Amazon have a nice sale on Wii controllers, the Wii Wheel and the Wii Play bundle! This will last only for this week through Saturday night! Take a look at this online sale cheap discount prices:
Wii Sports Resort releases today (Sunday) in Canada and if you have a Wii system, run (don’t walk) down to your local game vendor and pick up a copy. Many people I know consider the console pack-in Wii Sports title to still be one of the best around for family friendly pick-up and play fun. Wii Sports Resort takes that style of game and kicks it up another level with even more games and options as well as incorporating the new MotionPlus attachment for even better control. If you had any interest at all in the original Wii Sports, you owe it to yourself (and your family) to check out Wii Sports Resort. I’ve had the pleasure to take the game through its paces in the past week. It has dominated my limited play time and I believe it will be my go-to game for weeks to come.
Kid Factor: Very little to object to here, and the wealth of games mean there is something for everyone. Hardcore gamers will probably pursue a high skill ranking and try to collect all the stamps while less intense gamers will sample all the games and find a few they like the best. Controls on several games are easy enough for even the youngest players to mess around with, but still other games have an appeal for a slightly older audience. Since game information is saved according to players’ Mii characters, multiple players within the same family don’t have to worry about overlapping save games. More competitive families can even use the recorded high scores as a bit of a challenge.
Now through July 18, 2009, save on the Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars video game for Nintendo DS at Amazon.ca - online deal price @ CDN $24.99! Savings available only for a limited quantity of inventory on-hand. Offer good while supplies last. Limit two games per customer.
After the bunch of games we had in the last month, you can say summer will be quite quiet. Time for people to play their EA Sports Active and Wii Fit games, I suppose! Seems like anybody got a Wii Fit; seriously, how many are still doing their exercises? In fact, I may have a better idea: go play outside this summer! And, for the rainy days, well the new Wii Sports game, Wii Sports Resort, is set to be in store here in Canada on July 26! Have fun! I know we will!
With so few new Nintendo Wii games this summer, it will be a two-month forecast.
New Wii games this summer: July - August 2009
July 14:
Birthday Party Bash - CDN$ 44.99
July 21:
Brave: A Warrior's Tale - CDN$ 29.99 (Amazon only)
Maybe you know about Gamefly, the website where you can rent Nintendo Wii games online and have them delivered at no cost at home? I always thought it would have been great to rent my Wii games online but the thing is that they only work in USA! Too bad for us :( And sure enough, they quickly become very popular south of the border.
But now, we finally have someone who offer the exact same service here in Canada! Finally! I was so excited the first time I heard about Game Access that I almost flipped out! They have nothing at my local video games retailers! So I tried them and boy I was amazed by their services! GameAccess.ca had almost all the latest games, shipped fast with prepaid return envelops, great! Renting video games online is amazing: it's like having unlimited games for pennies a day! :D This is way more cheap than buying all these finished-in-three-hours games!
Anyway, you can try them free in Canada - with credit card verification ;) - and I even have some coupon codes for you: instead of getting only 10 days of free trial, get 15 days! This way you can have a better idea of if you should pay for GameAccess or not. Just enter this code in the signup process to get your 15 days of free trail:
Click on coupon code to access GameAccess.ca FREE trial offer
Also, you can get 2 Nintendo game packages for the price of 1 in your first month if you use this code:
Click on coupon code to to get to the Game Access games package
Well, maybe Nintendo finally have that "best multiplayer" game for the Wii, and it is not too late!! Seriously, the first reviews for The Conduit all seems to agreed on this: The Conduit for Wii is really a great multiplayer game. And an "A" on average consumer rating almost everywhere tend to confirm this!
With no real online shooter competition on the Wii, just having the ability to hop into a game with up to 12 players online would have been great. But High Voltage went ahead and built out a complete multiplayer suite. The clean matchmaking system takes only a couple of clicks to get into a group and once there it lets everyone have a voice in setting up the game through a slick voting system that lets everyone have a say on the rules, available weapons, and map selection. Team modes fit the pace of play best but suffer from the lack of communication options other than the uncommon Wii Speak peripheral.
Online may come off a little crude by modern standards, but its raw, run-and-shoot action taps a nostalgic sense from back in the early days of playing PC shooters online. In the heat of this action, The Conduit comes closest to realizing its aspirations to become the first epic shooter for the Wii.
If you have been desperately searching for a competitive online shooter with robust options, The Conduit will be a near permanent fixture in your motion-sensing console. While it's not up to the experiences offered on the more advanced Xbox 360 or PS3, The Conduit is easily the best online shooter on Wii. As the saying goes, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."
The new Nintendo Wii video games that should be release in Canada this week, June 22 - June 28 (approximate dates):
June 23:
Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen - CDN $59.99
Dawn of Discovery - CDN $29.99
Games Around The Globe - CDN $39.99
Little League 2009: World Series Baseball - CDN $49.99
June 25:
The Conduit - CDN $54.99
Overlord: Dark Legends - CDN $49.99
As usual, you can buy these games in Canada at the Amazon.ca, BestBuy or FutureShop stores. They all have the same prices on these games. No discount anywhere yet, but I will be on the lookout and will let you know if I can find any! By the way, I have found Games Around The Globe only on Amazon!
The Conduit for Wii Gameplay Video
Gameplay from High Voltage Software's The Conduit for Nintendo Wii from the Fall 2008 Nintendo Media Summit.
Current Deal: Save on Rock Band 2 Games for Nintendo Wii
Now through June 27, 2009, save on Rock Band 2 Special Edition for Wii, Rock Band 2 Wii game, Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock and Rock Band 2 Drum Set, all for the Nintendo Wii only at Amazon.ca. Savings on select titles below are available only for a limited quantity of inventory on-hand. Offer good while supplies last. A great sale and some nice deals on Rock Band 2 online!
If you ask yourself where is that last stage in Guitar Hero Smash Hits, well it's the famous Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City! As you may know, the development team, Beenox, is from Quebec City and they thought it would be nice to include the town in the game.
So, the final stage take place on St.Lawrence River, on a gigantic flotting scene made of Old Quebec Fortifying Doors. You can see the Chateau Frontenac, the Quebec bridge, and the crowd is actually on barges.
Now, I know what you're thinking: why not make a big Guitar Hero convention party night in the real Chateau Frontenac? That would be great!
The new Nintendo Wii game, EA Sports: Grand Slam Tennis, is finally in stores! You can find it in stock, ready to shipped in Canada! I search for the game online and you can find it for CDN$ 54.99! But wait! I'd found this great discount new order price on WiiOnline: you can save 5% on your new Electronic Arts Sports Tennis game and get it for CDN$ 51.99 instead!
June 17 UPDATE: sorry sale has ends. Now at regular price.
This month until June 20, get Super Smash Bros. Brawl on sale in Canada at Wii Online.ca!Save 50% on this great Wii video game and get it for CDN$ 24.99! Wow, huge deal! You can grab this game at this cheap price only until Father's Day, so you'll have to act fast! Nice playin'!
In store now, the new Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 with the Wii MotionPlus controller Bundle are now in store and ready to shipped in Canada! For the same flat price everywhere: CDN $69.99!
Wii Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Bundle Reviews
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 for Wii is the definitive golf game. It's filled to the top with content, sports spectacular controls enhanced by MotionPlus, and includes great Disc Golf and online modes. Seriously, this is an amazing package made all the better by the peripheral pack- in. Just as impressive, though, is that this year's effort is so intuitively enjoyable that it has, in my experience, transcended the golf category altogether to become one of those rare Wii games that I will confidently recommend to anybody. Wii Sports, Wii Fit, Boom Blox and now Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 -- these are all games that are spectacular because of the very technology that makes Wii great. Like Wii Sports, Woods 10 could not be made as well for any other system. Get out there and support this excellent sequel -- a standout effort that will surely be in competition for sports game of the year. (Read the complete IGN review here)
With the addition of MotionPlus, Woods 10 on the Wii is a fantastic golfing videogame, besting its console counterparts because of its control options, extra courses, party game modes, and Frolf. Not to mention, it's casual friendly for anyone to play, but with enough difficulty options for the hardcore to stay interested. It's almost hard to imagine it getting better than this for the foreseeable future. (Read the complete 1up review here)
Like you know, the new Nintendo Wii games EA Sports Grand Slam Tennis and Tiger Woods PGA Tour with the MotionPlus controller bundle are postponed to Thursday June 11.
But wait! The Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 game-only and the Wii MotionPlus controller standalone are already in stock in Canada! Plus Virtua Tennis 2009 (compare CDN prices)!
You can buy Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, Wii MotionPlus new controller and Virtua Tennis 2009 all in stock at WiiOnline!
With the delaying of the EA Sports: Grand Slam Tennis AND the Wii MotionPlus until at least June 11, I reported my eye on the Nintendo Wii upcoming Virtua Tennis 2009 game, which should be release on tomorrow June 9! The game seems to look really great so far, and I've always love Sega products, so I'd take a look at the Wii Virtua Tennis 2009 online prices in Canada:
Remember the E3 2005 press shots, with all these colored Wii consoles? Since then, all we saw is that nice flat white console! Nice, but hey, everyone love to have some choice. Look at the Xbox, I very like the red one. Well, finally, Nintendo has announced a new Wii console color: a black one! Not too original, I think the Nintendo Wii would look really great in green, but hey, the black one is really good looking!
But don't go crazy yet, that console was confirmed only for Japan, with no Europe or America release plan yet.
Now through June 20, 2009, save on select Nintendo Wii video games at WiiOnline.ca. Savings on select Wii titles below are available only for a limited quantity of inventory on-hand. Offer good while supplies last and items are sold and shipped by Amazon!
Mario Power Tennis New Play Controls - CDN$ 21.97
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - CDN$ 39.99
Wii Music - CDN$ 29.97
Nintendo Wii Remote Controller - CDN$ 41.97
Madworld - CDN$ 46.97
Wario Land Shake It! - CDN$ 34.99
All-Star Cheer Squad - CDN$ 16.97
Excite Bots Trick Racing - CDN$ 39.99
Sims Animals - CDN$ 29.97
Wii Rechargable Battery Pack and Cable - CDN$ 15.47
Six Flags Fun Park - CDN$ 25.97
Paws & Claws Pet Resort - CDN$ 19.97
Yep, you read it right: you can have the new Wii Mario Power Tennis with new play controls for less than CDN$ 22! New reviews on the game are great! Buy these Wii Games on sale through June 20th, 2009!
On his Summer Video Games Blowout, Amazon have two Nintendo DS Lite Consoles on sale: you can buy the Nintendo DS Lite Metallic Silver at CDN$ 99.99, a 29% discount price! Or, get the DS Lite Limited Green with Personal Trainer: Cooking Bundle for CDN$ 119.99, a $40 rebate! Nice!
Now through June 20, 2009, save on select Nintendo DS video games at Amazon.ca. Savings on select titles below are available only for a limited quantity of inventory on-hand. Offer good while supplies last and items are sold and shipped by Amazon.ca.
Nintendo DS Lite Metallic Silver - CDN$ 99.99
The Dark Spire
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
Digimon World Championship
Master of the Monster Lair
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time
Nintendo DS Lite Adjustable Stylus Pen
Personal Trainer: Math
Nintendo DS Lite Limited Green with Personal Trainer: Cooking Bundle - CDN$ 119.99
Nintendo has another insatiably cute leading character in The Legendary Starfy, a platformer about a star-shaped prince who lives in Pufftop. Starfy isn't new to the video game world; this is developer TOSE's fifth game in the series known as Densetsu no Starfy in Japan. This rosy-cheeked and gregarious star is sure to win over the same crowd that adores 2D Nintendo platformers, and we were easily taken by Starfy and his band of merry underwater crustaceans.
Current Deal: Animal Crossing with Wii Speak Bundle and Wii Speak Standalone
Save on Animal Crossing with Wii Speak Bundle and Wii Speak Standalone this week only when you buy from Amazon.ca. This offer is valid until Saturday, June 13, 2009 or while supplies last. Must be sold and shipped by Amazon.ca at the time of your order to qualify.
Well, after that, I was taking a look at EA Sports: Grand Slam Tennis prices in Canada for the Nintendo Wii game, and then again WiiOnline.ca had the best price for that game! Compare EA Sports: Grand Slam Tennis prices:
EA Sports GrandSlam Tennis for Wii best Canadian prices:
I'd take a look on the new Nintendo Wii game The Conduit from Sega, and when doing a little price comparaison of all the online Wii retailers, trying to find the game at the best price online, I found a small discount on The Conduit at this store:
06/16 UPDATE: sorry sale has ends. Prices are now CDN$ 54.99 everywhere.
07/07 UPDATE: Finally, someone have The Conduit for Wii at a regular price of CDN$ 49,99! Thanks to The Source. So, the new Conduit prices in Canada for July are:
June 9 UPDATE: Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 is finally in stores in Canada, but only as the standalone version! The Tiger Woods AND Wii MotionPlus Bundle are postponed to Thursday June 11, to say the least. (You can buy Tiger Woods 10 at WiiOnline.ca)
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I'd found the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Golf video game for the Nintendo Wii on discount price online in Canada. Here's the price comparaison for the Wii Canada Games retailers for the Tiger Woods Wii game:
Three big new Nintendo releases on June 8th, with the new Wii MotionPlus controller, Tiger Woods Golf and EA Sports Tennis! I think the new controller will get my choice, I will wait for reviews before buying any of these games! Well, I will try! Only a week later, Ghostbusters Video Game will be released, then The Conduit!, and finally the new Wii Sports Resort game by the end of the month. Wow! Great new releases for the Nintendo Wii and a big month in perspective in the Wii World!
The one I am the most excited about is The Conduit! But the Ghostbusters one looks promising too! What do you think of this month Nintendo Wii releases?
Nintendo Wii and NHL Hockey are HUGE success in Canada, to say the least! It is a matter of fact that Canadians are in love with The Game and the Nintendo console games! So, this one is a natural: Mad Catz made a NHL Hockey Accessory Pack for the Nintendo Wii console, with all the NHL teams controller faceplates and some other things! A dream product for the NHL Hockey tournaments aficionados! You can check it on Amazon.ca already:
Finally, you got your new Nintendo console, and you have a lot of fun with the Wii Sports games. Sure enough, you want to have more games, but now there’s a problem: where can you find new Wii games in Canada at discounted prices? Why they never seem to have the game we want in stock in Canada, even now in 2009? Everyone here face this situation: you want the all-new latest Wii video game but every time you go at your favorite retailer, you’re in front of empty shelves. Or you want that specific “old” Nintendo game, but you’d never find it in any store. So, how to find all the Nintendo Wii videogames you want in Canada?
First, you still can try your local sellers. Try to call them and ask if they could keep you a copy of the game for an hour or two. But they had to have the game in stock, and some retailers don’t take pre-orders. And even if you finally find your game, you may have to pay insane prices for Wii games in stores. So where to get your Nintendo videogames cheaper?
You may want to try flea markets if you want to find that older game you want. But then again, you have to search everywhere without knowing if you will be lucky. And maybe you’ll finally find a used copy of your Wii game, which may be in a poor condition. Very poor condition. But with some luck, you may find a used copy in good condition of the videogame you want, at a cheap price!
Auction websites in Canada
You can also try auction websites! You can easily find some legitimate and well-known this type of seller/buyer sites ( Kijiji, Ebay ), and you can find lot of games there! But maybe you don’t want to deal with their more obscure seller, and you want to buy from more secure online stores. So, if you want an all-new copy of the latest release, what should you do?
Canada Online Stores
You can buy all the new and latest Nintendo Wii games at the cheapest prices in Canada online! Nintendo Canada has a few Authorized Internet Wii games resellers, and they always seem to have the console and all the games in stock! Many shipped their products directly from Canada, so you don’t have to pay any tax duties! Some may even have free shipping! Also, you can compare prices between them and check for all the sales, rebates and discount prices to find your favorite Nintendo Wii games online, in stock, at the best price!
A really nice Wii Punch-Out!! review I find. I totally agree with most parts of it, except for the prices part, I found the game a little cheaper online. Here's an excerpt of the review:
Finally. Nintendo doing something the “core” audience can care for. It’s been 15 years since a new Punch Out game came out, and 22 years since the NES classic was released, and 25 years since the original Arcade game came out(and 24 years since the sequel to that one came out). Let’s just say we were well overdue for a Punch Out sequel.
And ever since I saw the trailer for this, I knew it was gonna be awesome.
So read on and see if it’s really as awesome as I thought it would be.
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Gameplay
Remember Punch Out on the NES? Well, if you do, it plays the same. Almost exactly.
Controls
The controls are simple. Pressing Left and Right dodges in that direction. The 1 button punches with the left hand, the 2 button punches with the right hand. Pressing them while holding Up does a punch to the face, and pressing them alone does a punch to the body. Pressing and holding Up guards against jabs, and pressing down dodges downwards to pass beneath wide hooks. Pressing A does a Star Uppercut (if you have stars). The controls are the same as on the NES, and they STILL work great.
There’s also motion controls. Punching with the nunchuk is a left punch, with the wiimote is a right puch, and punching while holding A is a star uppercut. The rest of the controls are on the control still, the same as the normal controls. The motion controls… work. But that’s about it. They’re not as sensitive as they should be and they’re not really that easy to use.
[...]
The game itself
Well, what is there to say really? It’s just like the NES game. And for that, it’s awesome. There’s 13 boxers to go through, each with a distinct pattern and moveset. Going through each of them brings you closer to being the world champion.
Each of the 13 boxers come from previous Punch Out games, other than Disco Kid. Each of them is increasingly difficult, each with a special gimmick or certain ways of getting KOd. Multiple enemies have certain animations where you can KO them in one hit. Some also have immunities to certain kids of hits. There’s really a lot of variety.
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Overall
What more is there to say? Punch Out is a magnificent game. A great addition to any “core” gamer’s library. The gameplay is incredible and old-school. The graphics are badass, the animations are great and the sound is really good. This is pretty much the perfect game for an NES fanboy, and hardcore gamers in general. ALSO, this game is VERY replayable. The NES and SNES games are still being replayed a lot to this day, and this one should be no different.
If there was something I would say I’m disappointed in, I’d say it would be the low number of boxers. Another circuit would’ve been awesome. But at 14 boxers in total (including the super-secret Nintendo character everyone knows about by now), it’s a bit disappointing. But each boxer is so well done I don’t really mind.
Overall it’s a great game and a must-have for any Wii owner. But some people might want to wait for a price drop, as it’s a whopping 60$ in Canada (AKA the starting price for most PS3/Xbox 360 games), so 50$ in the US. A bit much.
These Nintendo Wii games and new accessories are now in the stores shelves:
EA Sports Active
Punch-Out!!
EA Sports Active Accessory
Boom Blox Bash Party
Rock Band Track Pack: Classic Rock
Virtua Tennis 2009
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds Wheelie Breaker
Wii Wireless Wheel
Punch-Out! made almost everyone else KO in the first round, taking already the second spot in the sales chart, trailing only behind Wii Fit (but hey, that made sens, you have to train before putting the gloves!). We have another surprise in the sales chart this week: the return of Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros and the like! Proof the Nintendo Console still sells like pancakes here in Canada!
As for the next releases, we could see a Madden NFL new game in the horizon (what a surprise!) you can already pre-order.
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