Link: Famitsu (horrendously translated from Japanese to English by Google)

Don't even bother attempting to read through that translated page. I think I understood it better when it was in Japanese. Evidently, according to gaming sites with more reliable translation sources, Nintendo is planning to announce the official Wii launch date and price sometime in September. Nintendo had already announced at E3 that the Wii would be available sometime in Q4 of 2006, so why they are choosing to wait until September to make the final announcement doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

Regarding the WiiConnect24 service, Satoru Iwata had this to say:

Even me edge giving of technician. As for the clean picture you are moved very by charm. When so it tries to actualize that, the size of hard becomes large, it turns the fan noisily, development expense of the software soars, all commodities keep converting to Daisaku. It cannot develop either the service like Wii Connect24. In brief you think that balance is important. New technology is thrown somewhere, here the importance.

I have absolutely no clue what he just said.

Nintendo also announced that there is a version of Pokemon being developed for the Wii that will have some sort of online functionality and will also connect with the DS version of the game, due out later this year.

Another interesting item to note is that the Wii will definitely act as some sort of DS 'kiosk', allowing DS owners to download demos and fresh content wirelessly via their Wii console and the WiiConnect24 service. I don't care about this because I don't plan to get a DS myself, but I'm sure someone will find it interesting. Someone like a DS owner.

I'm sure there's more nifty information buried beneath all that kanji and hiragana, but I can't really dig it out for you. Sorry.