Wii Rally

Are you like me and have been desperately trying to find Wii Fit in stock? Sure, you could pay twice as much as retail and buy it on eBay or Amazon. That option just isn’t very appealing and searching store to store is not only time consuming but uses way too much gas.

WiiTracker.com now has a section to find Wii Fit in stock. Of course, it’s not in stock anywhere but I do like the history. You can actually see that some places have had it in stock in recent days. It gives me hope that I will be able to buy it soon.

For those who have been waiting for Rock Band for the Wii, the wait it over. EA Games released Rock Band for the Wii at the end of June.

There are five bonus tracks for the Wii version of Rock Band. Sadly, this version doesn’t have downloadable content, so those of us who already own Rock Band for another console will not get much out of this new release.

Rock Band is rated Teen. The Rock Band bundle for the Wii retails for $169.99.

Mario Kart and Wii Fit both sold well during the month of May. Mario Kart finished in the number 2 spot while Wii Fit came in at number 3. The sales figures are from the NPD Group, which tracks sales of video game products in the United States.

The Nintendo Wii also had a good May in the United States. 675,089 units were sold. Taking the May numbers into account, the Wii lifetime sales has passed 10.2 million. May wasn’t a bad month for Wii Play. The Wii game made up of mini-games that comes with an extra Wiimote sold 295,000. Since it’s released, Wii Play has sold over 5.8 million units.

Of the top 30 selling games for May, 19 are for the Nintendo Wii including We Ski, Game Party, and Guitar Hero III. Pokemon is still a strong franchise for Nintendo as the combined sales of Pokémon® Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokémon® Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness were more than 208,000 units.

Wii Fit raced onto two circuits over the Memorial Day Weekend. The weekend had two well-known races, the Coca-Cola 600 and the Indy 500.

Sterling Marlin was behind the wheel in the NASCAR number 40 and Alex Lloyd made his Indy debut in the number 16 hotrod.

So, how did they do? Sterling Marlin finished 31st out of 43. Alex Lloyd crashed and finished 25th by completing 151 out of 200 laps.

The sequel to MySims is coming this fall to the Wii and DS. MySims Kingdom will take the Sims to the Middle Ages. Here you will have to fight to restore the kingdom to its former glory.

Throughout your adventure, new characters, lands, and contraptions will be revealed. Everything in the game is customizable in true Sims form.

MySims Kingdom will be traveling to a retail shelf near you this fall.

Now that Jill has saved her grandparents’ bakery, she is bringing her culinary creations to the Wii. Soon Wii players will be baking up a storm in Cake Mania In the Mix.

The casual game phenomenon has already made its way from the PC to the DS and now is headed to the Wii. Players will use the Wiimote to guide Jill throw nine bakeries, helping her make hundreds of special ordered cakes.

Cake Mania In the Mix is expected to be released early in 2009.

Wii Fit is shaping up to be one of the bigger ‘game’ releases this spring for Nintendo as some stores have already sold out of their pre-order allotment. Wii Fit is scheduled to be released May 19th and to celebrate, there will be a huge launch party in Central Park.

The event will be held from 8am-5pm at Merchant’s Gate. The event will give everyone a chance to test out Wii Fit and the balance board. For every person who tries it out, Nintendo will make a $5 donation(up to $25,000) to the American Heart Association.

Wii Fit features 40 activities that involved the Wii balance board. There’s a mix of aerobics, yoga, strength training, and balancing exercises.

The event is not only a celebration of the launch of Wii Fit but a celebration of May as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.

Anxiously awaiting the release of a Wii title and live in Europe? Well here is the list of release dates of Wii games plus the two upcoming Wii channels. It’s after the jump just because it’s a huge list.

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The Build-a-Bear workshop is coming to the Wii. First you had to build your bear at a local store. Then came along the DS game that allowed you to build your own virtual stuffed animal. Now Wii owners can have their chance to build a bear, too.

Since 1997, Over 6 million furry friends have been made in over 370 Build-a-Bear Workshops around the world. The DS game, that launched in November 2007, has sold over 180,000 units.

Build-a-Bear Workshop A Friend Fur All Seasons will be available sometime in this fall.

Nintendo announces record revenues for the fiscal year ending March 31st. Sales were 1.67 trillion yen, an increase of 73 percent over the prior year.

The company has also increased the shipments of Wiis. Nintendo plans to ship 25 million Wiis this fiscal year. Last year they shipped 18.61 million consoles.

So, for those still looking for the Nintendo Wii, there will be more available this year. Hopefully you will have ample opportunity to purchase this great console, not that I’m biased or anything.

Nintendo announces a new sports game for the Wii, and it will follow in the footsteps of Mario Strikers and Mario Kart. That’s right. It’s a Mario-themed baseball game for the Wii.

Mario Super Sluggers will have lots of familiar surroundings since it will be using a lot of elements from the Mario franchise. Players will use the Wiimote to play the game by swinging it as a bat or moving it to throw pitches.

No release date for Mario Super Sluggers has been announced.

There are rumors of a Wii price cut this May in Europe. The rumor is that the Wii will drop to around $150 with a Wii bundle with Mario Kart at $199.

Nintendo has responded by saying these are just rumors and that Nintendo has made no such announcement about a price cut or the price of a Wii Mario Kart bundle.

It seems price cut rumors always run rampant in the spring. It seems there is always a price cut romor looming before E3. Maybe they are ill-timed April Fool’s Jokes?

Sam & Max are coming to the Wii this fall. This will be a collection of the first six seasons of the popular PC title.

Here is a little blurb about who Sam & Max is for those who may not know:

Sam is a six-foot dog in a baggy suit sporting a trombone-sized .44 hand-cannon. Max is a three foot “rabbity thing” with a saw blade grin and the impulsive nature of the average piranha. Together they patrol the sticky streets of a fantastical New York City, righting wrongs, pummeling perps, and ridding the urban landscape of the shifty legions of “self-propelled gutter trash” that litter their streets. Sam & Max have appeared in comics, video games, an animated TV series coming soon to DVD, and an Eisner award-winning webcomic.

It’s been long rumored that it was coming and alluded to during a January projections meeting by EA officials. Now Rock Band Wii has a release date.

Look for the Wii Rock Band bundle June 22nd and will sell for $169.99. Non-bundled instruments will also be released the same day. The Wii version will feature 63 songs, including five bonus songs just for the Wii version.

Hanna-Barbera characters are coming to the Wii. Wacky Races: Crash and Dash will be available this June.

For those who have played this game before will remember it for its fun cartoonish graphics and entertaining gameplay. It is a racing game and will make a great addiction to the growing list of Wii games.

Wacky Races will also be available for the Nintendo DS.