Nintendo announced in a press release today that the Nintendo Wii will be launched on November 19th for $249.99. The price includes one wireless Wii Remote controller, one Nunchukâ„¢ controller and the collection of five different Wii Sports games on one disc. There will be 30 launch titles costing $49.99 each. The Wii Remote will cost $39.99 and the Nunchukâ„¢ attachment will cost $19.99.

Update: Costco is going to sell these, so I’m definetely going to pick one up in the future!

At its September 12 media event today, Apple updated its line of iPods, introduced iTunes 7, and delivered the first movie sales through the iTunes Store. The 60GB 5G iPod has been upgraded to 80GB, while prices have come down $50 for each model to $249 and $349. The 5G iPod also features a brighter display, the ability to control the level of brightness, improved battery life, new earphones, gapless playback, and the ability to play games. The 2G iPod nano remains available at the same three price points, ($149, $199, and $249) but capacities have been doubled across the board, to 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB. In addition, the new nano features an aluminum enclosure similar to the iPod mini, except much smaller and thinner. The iPod shuffle is now available in only 1GB priced at $79, but is available in a smaller, aluminum button-sized enclosure.

iTunes 7 includes a number of enhancements, including support for iTunes Music Store account holders to automatically add album artwork to any MP3s that are missing it. Along with that, new views allow you to browse your music collection by artwork, as if flipping through a physical CD collection. Apple also added movie sales to the iTunes Store, with 75 titles available today from various Disney studios. Movie sales are available at a resolution of 640×480, encoded with the H.264 video codec, and television shows have been increased as well to the same resolution, a four-fold increase from the previous 320×240 size.

You can check out the new iPods at the Apple Store.

Apple, today, released updated revisions of their iMac and Mac Mini lines. The iMacs have all been upgraded from older Intel Core Duo processors to the new Intel Core 2 Duo processors (making it up to 50% faster than the previous 20″ iMac). In addition, a new 24″ iMac has also been added. The Mac Minis have been updated making them all Core Duo models.

The new iMacs are available in the following configurations:

17 inch 1.83GHz
$999 US
1440×900 resolution
2MB L2 Cache
512MB RAM
160GB SATA HD
24x Combo Drive
Intel GMA950 64MB
Airport Extreme

17 inch 2.0GHz
$1,199
1440×900 resolution
4MB L2 Cache
1GB RAM
160GB SATA HD
8x Double Layer Superdrive
ATI Radeon x1600 128MB
Airport Extreme & Bluetooth
Apple Remote

20 inch 2.16GHz
$1,499
1680×1050 resolution
4MB L2 Cache
1GB RAM
250GB SATA HD
8x Double Layer Superdrive
ATI X1600 128MB
Airport Extreme & Bluetooth
Apple Remote

24 inch 2.16GHz
$1,999
1920×1200 resolution
4MB L2 Cache
1GB RAM
250GB SATA HD
8x Double Layer Superdrive
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 128MB
Airport Extreme & Bluetooth
Apple Remote

The new Mac Minis are available in the following configuration:

1.66 GHz
60 GB 5400-rpm SATA Hard Drive
Combo Drive
$599 USD

1.83 GHz
80 GB 5400-rpm SATA Hard Drive
Superdrive
$799 USD

Both models feature:
-2MB Shared L2 Cache
-512 MB 667 MHz DDR2 RAM standard (up to 2 GB supported)
-GMA 950 Integrated graphics
-1 Firewire 400, 4 USB 2.0
-Optical Digital/Analog Audio In/Out
-Gigabit ethernet
-Airport Extreme and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR standard

Best movie scene ever made.

Warning: There is some language.

Luckiest guy in the world. He wins a car the first time, then when news reporters want him to do a re-enactment of him buying a ticket and winning, he unintentionally wins again.