Blue Wii Heads Down Under with Donkey Kong In Tow

Hide the bananas

by James Newton Tue 18th Oct 2011

The reconfigured Wii console continues to spread its roots around the world, with Australia due to receive the blue machine on 3rd November.

Whereas Europe gets the new colour with Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Australian bundle comes with Donkey Kong Country Returns instead, and all for $198 AUS.

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James started his career in video games as News Editor on Nintendo Life. Since leaving in 2012 to join Nintendo of Europe, James has risen through the ranks to become NoE's Senior Product PR & Corporate Communications Manager.

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shoopdawoop70
Tue 18th Oct 2011

i think they should've gone with black...

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baba_944
Tue 18th Oct 2011

i wish the DKCR bundle will hit the US

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SnowmanGER
Tue 18th Oct 2011

Mmh actually I don´t like the colour. Dark blue would be well but light blue alias baby blue? No way.

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Kage_88
Tue 18th Oct 2011

Bah! I wanted it to come with Mario & Sonic!

Oh well...

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NESguy94
Tue 18th Oct 2011

Why not yellow or green, I mean it is for Donkey Kong?

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Hejiru
Tue 18th Oct 2011

No Gamecube compatibility, though. So it's still a broken Wii they're trying to sell for full price if you ask me.

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DarkLloyd
Tue 18th Oct 2011

i dont think compatiblity taken out warrants a price deduction of a old system were talking 10 years ago at the most

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TKOWL
Tue 18th Oct 2011

What does Blue have to do with Donkey Kong? Maybe he's gotten into blueberries instead.

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Infernapeking
Tue 18th Oct 2011

Wii and 3DS sales are gonna BLAST BLAST and EXPLODE during Christmas. Nintendo is playing it smart to gather Bundles and Games and Low Prices for the Holiday. Wii sales may go up from 88-92 million and 3DS 4-7 million.

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Thwiidscube
Tue 18th Oct 2011

I'm just gonna say this again. I don't want this new, stupid Wii with no GCN support.

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mantez
Wed 19th Oct 2011

Yay! eb exclusive! Means full price with no price matching.

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Henmii
Wed 19th Oct 2011

With DK the console should have been yellow, of course!

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Pj1
Wed 19th Oct 2011

@Henmii you beat me to it!

This feels a little going back to the 90's when had different in-pack games for the SNES, even Donkey Kong country got bundled with a snes! the Sonic bundles is different, back in the day Nintendo and Sega fought a war (not literally) when it came to selling consoles. I'm hoping for another red wii release but with Super Mario All stars but a small selling catch.... it includes Super Mario World. I think these new Wii bundles are a little too late if you ask me but they got to do some thing whilst we wait for Wii-U.......