Wii Music pre-orders start; release date Nov. 3 (US)

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Amazon.com on Tues. began offering pre-orders for Nintendo Co.'s upcoming Wii Music for the Wii home video game system.

The title, which carries a release date of Nov. 3, is being sold at a $49.99 MSRP.

Wii Music will feature more than 60 instruments including a violin, steel drums, electric guitar, and a cow bell.

In the title, players can play virtual instruments in a non-graded environment.

Each user can save his or her arrangement and send it off to another player via WiiConnect24 to allow for another layer of music to be added.

Nintendo in July recorded a Q1 profit of 107.27 billion yen ($996 million) on strong sales for the Wii home video game console.

Total Wii sales have reached 29.6 million, ahead of Sony Corp.'s Playstation 3 at 14.4 million and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 at more than 19 million.

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