 It's Thursday, September 13th, 2012. I'm slightly taller, slightly thinner, but still high resolution Alice Hamburger. This is 90 seconds on the Verge. The Nintendo Wii U is ready for launch. The game console is due in North America on November 18th, starting at $299 for the base model. What you'll really want though is the Deluxe Edition. For $50 more, you get four times the storage, a gamepad charging cradle, and a free copy of Nintendo Land. The company today also unveiled Nintendo TV, which aims to use the gamepad controller as the second screen for quote, personalized programming of live TV and on-demand video. Nintendo is the only major game company to launch a console this year. Rumor has it though that Sony and Microsoft have something up their sleeve for late 2013. Nikon has announced its smallest, lightest, and cheapest full-frame DSLR. The 24 megapixel D600 has the same image processor as the D4 and can shoot 1080p video at 30 frames per second. Nikon's D600 starts at $2,100 and will hit stores globally on September 18th. And finally, iPhone 5 pre-orders kick off late tonight. Very late. Apple will start taking your money just after midnight Pacific via Apple.com. For those on the East Coast, grab a can of Red Bull, as that'll be 3 a.m. Sprint and Verizon have both confirmed they'll also open pre-orders at the same time. No word yet on AT&T. If you prefer a more offline approach, head over to an Apple store on September 21st at 8 a.m. Expect a line. And that's it for today's top stories, but coming up tomorrow... Back your PKE meter. We're going ghost hunting.