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Korea getting its Wii on April 26

by Alexander Sliwinski on Apr 14th 2008 2:30PM

The official Nintendo Korea site states the country will join the chorus of global Wii worship on April 26, 2008 for 220,000 won ($225 USD). The console will launch with eight titles, including Wii Sports (not included in box), Wii Play -- one of the best selling pieces of "software" in the US -- and puzzle adventure game Zack & Wiki.

The launch happens a little over a week before Children's Day, a popular gift-giving holiday in the country. We'll have to wait and see if the Wii can pull Koreans away from their computer screens -- and Starcraft -- long enough to try out some console gaming.

[Via GoNintendo]

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Tags: console, korea, wii

Reader Comments (40)

April 26 is my birthday =p

let me guess, your turning 16 or 17.

24 =p

Im genuily shocked. Im 23 myself.

Holy crepes, you're even older than myself. Goodness, gracious great-balls-of-fire. O_O;

Fernando,

Identity theft is a real and major problem. If Fernando is your real name, you want to be very careful about what details you give of yourself on the interwebs.
If small pieces of information can be used maliciously.

I speak to you as a victim of I.D. theft.

what?! i thought u were 14! Hmm must have been some one impersonating you. wow, you're 6 years older than me.

You don't have to be young to be retarded. That works at any age!

I wonder if it will launch with MK and SSBB... That would be an awesome launch.

Influx of $500 Wii eBay listings in 3...2...1...

How much does Wii Sports sell for if it's not in the box? It's not worth more then $10 in my opinion...And is Wii Play sold with or without the remote?

curtis i sold my wii sports for like $35 on ebay so its worth the price of a new game basically and the darn thing was used,i was shocked i even got that much

Serious? I need to get my girlfriend to stop playing it so I can sell it haha.

Now Korea can buy it and get bored after a month of waggle

haha. +1

Screw Korea!

I want my Wii!!!

im genuily shocked. Im 23 myself.

ahh crappy comment system. sometimes you click reply and it takes you down to the comment box but it does not add "replying to *whoever*, in which case it acts as a new comment. Need to pay attention and make sure it says that your replying

Stocks for Koreas top dust manufacturers plummeted today.

Nintendo should focus on meeting demand in the damn countries who already have it instead of spreading themselves even thinner.

*waits for planetary riot*

Now Koreans can buy even more products from the Japanese they supposedly hate so much.

They can't hate us that much. They own all our pachinko parlors.

http://aog.2y.net/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=5&t=1550

"K.O. Korea Win!"

Wonder how well the Wii version of PangYa will sell there...

If nintendo really wants to make it in Korea,it should get some sort of Starcraft Port to the WII ,maybe with online and wiimote support.

HAR HAR ya lame joke

It's now official. Wii has got 220,000 varieties of win!

On April 26 Nintendo will Zergling rush Korea.

On April 27 Korea's mighty Photon cannon defense will fall.

but on april 28th korea will use psionic storm, which will rape that zergling attack.

can you control nukes with waggle?? If so, we will all be speaking Korean in

I hate it when comments are interrupted by nukes.

Using greater than or less than signs in comments is bad, mmkay?

LMAO Even with my complete lack of HTML knowledge, I should have know greater/less than symbol was no good!

I can see this all ending in disaster. There are enough gaming-related deaths in Korea as it is, and now we're giving them weapons.

It's a Japanese conspiracy...

i agree that no koreans will play wii without starcraft and if it did have starcraft 27 people will be dead on launch day

Starcraft is old news to Koreans. It may surprise you but free-to-play MMOs are the most popular games in Korea. You may not like them, but the reality is that they have a lot of influence on the Korean market today.

the pirates are getting ready for new booty.

A Korean free-to-play MMO spawned the Wii's SuperSwingGolf which until now has not been available in its country of origin. I wonder how well the non-free motion-controlled spin-off will sell compared to it's free mouse-controlled PC counterpart?

Why call it a world wide launch when the rest of the world gets it two years too late.... to

Put Starcraft on the Wii and BOOM, sell 49million consoles and 49million copies of the game in like 2 hours.

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