Seems like it's another slow news day at News Pop! today. Coming back from the weekend with some important news, especially after such a big week for announcements, like Nintendo announcing the price and release date of the Wii, is pretty difficult. We'll still try our best anyway.

Amazon sells out of Wii Pre-orders

As it turns out, not even one whole day after Nintendo announced the price and release date of the Wii, Amazon sold out of its Wii pre-orders. We found the report at Kotaku, the original coming from CD Freaks. That doesn't mean that Amazon won't necessarily have Wii systems available for purchase come launch day. It just means that those who didn't want to have to worry about the possibility of not being able order a Wii on launch day won't have to, if they got their pre-order that is. The pre-order was without a bundle.

For those still wishing to pre-order a Wii, at least in Canada, Toys'R'us.ca, and some of its store locations are still taking pre-order bundle deposits. $50 CAD is the price to reserve the system, but you'll also have to commit to buying an extra controller and two games. While Americans already know how much extra controllers are going to set them back, Canadians still don't have confirmed pricing for any of those peripherals. We contacted Nintendo of Canada today, but the reps were unable to tell us what Canadians can expect to shell out for the peripherals. Currently, we can only speculate the cost, so that's just what we decided to do. Based on the current pricing of $60 USD for a Wii remote and nunchuck attachment purchased together, we calculated that the probable price of the two in Canadian Dollars and came to an approximate price of $70-$75 before tax.

That's all for News Pop! today. If you're not up to date with the latest gaming news feel free to check out our very first week of News Pop!.

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