Fellow videogamers, we better start saving our pennies because the week of November 19 promises to provide a rare double videogame console launch, and a Thanksgiving week to remember, as Nintendo announces the launch of the successor to the Nintendo Gamecube.

Nintendo announces that its new Wii home system will sell for $250 — half the price of Sony’s cheapest PlayStation 3 — and launch Nov. 19, two days after the PS3.

Ok, after consulting the calendar it’s not exactly Thanksgiving and Black Friday week, but it’s pretty darn close. Exactly one week before the biggest retail shopping day of the year, Black Friday, the PS3 will hit the US store shelves followed that Sunday by the Nintendo Wii.

Unlike the Gamecube Nintendo has some online plans which seem to have changed a bit from when it was tossed around that older titles might be offered free:

Wii owners can download and play games from Nintendo’s older NES, Super NES and Nintendo 64 systems and NEC’s TurboGrafx. Initially, about 30 games (usually $5 to $10) will be available, including The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario 64. Games are saved on SD memory cards

I’m curious what kind of web browser will come packed with the Wii which will be WiFi enabled? Nintendo, with few exceptions, treated online gameplay with the Gamecube like it wasn’t that important, a decision in hindsight that I bet they’d like to have back, only letting Microsoft pull further ahead in the console domination.

The weekend of November 17-19, merely two months away, is going to be nextgen gaming console week for those who can actually get their hands on them. Excited?

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