There was a TON of information released at the Japanese Wii conference Thursday morning. Check out this post for some things that you probably know and some things you may have missed. Including Japanese launch details, Wii Channel, Mii, Wii Photo Viewer, Opera Browser information, tons of new games shown in video form, and some good ol’ engrish to boot. This is not to be missed.

The Wii will be available in Japan on December 2nd, for 25000 yen ($213 USD). This comes directly from Nintendo Japan’s press release. Here’s the box it’ll be in.

And here is what will be in that box. Engrish by Google.

There will be 16 games from 10 different publishers at launch. Game prices will go from 4800 yen ($40 USD) to 6800 yen ($58 USD). Zelda will be hitting the upper end of the price range. Wii Sports will be a stand-alone title hitting at the lower end of the price range (4800 yen). It will contain 5 games.

On the Virtual Console. NES games will be 500 yen ($4 USD), SNES will be 800 yen ($7 USD), and N64 games will be about 1000 yen ($8.50 USD). It seems you’ll be able to either buy game directly with a credit card… or buy a “Wii Points Card” from in-store. Iwata also said that 60 games total will show up on the VC before years end, half from Nintendo and the other half from the PC Engine, Megadrive, Genesis, and Turbo-Grafx consoles. They’ll release 10 VC games a month from then on.

The Wii’s official website seems to be up. It currently contains tons of information including videos on the “Wii Channel.” Wii Channel seems to be a ton of built in services the Wii will have in order to “conquer the living room.” This stuff is unlike anything consoles have seen before. This includes a create your own Wii person (called “Mii”), the Wii Channel Weather Checker (with fully 3d globe), a news viewer (with zoom for the elderly and hard of seeing), a BBS-like message board system that can cross-post to and from cell phones, computers and other Wii consoles.

Also, don’t miss out the Wii Photo Viewer as well. Looks pretty damn spiffy… Mario Paint 2…. pfft try Photoshop-like abilities.

Wii Sports, Wario, Zelda, and a “new” title called Wii Play are all featured on the front page of the site. Wii Play looks a lot of the e3 Wii tech demos.

Check out this jam packed Wii teaser video. The video shows tons of games. Off the top of my head there was a SCUBA diving game, a Cooking Mama type game, a small shot of what look to be Resident Evil, Wii Play which seems to include Fishing, Target Shot, Air Hockey, Pool, and a Concentration type game, a coupla anime fighting games, and much MUCH more. But don’t take my word for it… watch it!

It looks like Wii’s Browser will be able to support all types of web standards. Videos from Iwata’s presentation show the Wii Browser browsing, of all things, Google Maps. Internet videos can also be seen playing in the Wii Browser videos. Videos also show what looks to be flash content. Sounds like a fully-featured browser to me.

Here is Iwata’s entire Japanese presentation if you can’t wait a couple hours for Reggie.

In a couple of hours all this info should be popping up for us English speakers. Until then folks, it’s been fun (and exhuasting).

Thanks to: Jason of WiiFanboy and Kalen, Arc, & Vinnk on Skype for all the help tonight.