While we reported that a Wii Connection Tour may be hitting Australia later in the year, we can now report that America is 100% getting one. While there is no press release saying so just yet, music site Punk News has reported that a 2006 edition of the Fusion Tour will be happening and there will be playable Wii and Nintendo DS consoles. No word of where and when this tour will be just who is playing at it (Bands etc).

Getting people to play the Wii is the best way of selling it to people, as Nintendo said themselves “”Playing = Believing”” we’ll have more news on the US Fusion Tour and any Australia Connection tour as soon as it happens.

UPDATE: Nintendo have just issued a press release for the event, you can read it by clicking “”Continue Reading”” below.

Music lovers and video game fans will converge in venues across the country this fall, as the fourth annual Nintendo Fusion Tour gets underway. The tour, headlined by emo-rock band Hawthorne Heights and produced by Live Nation, will visit some 40 cities nationwide between Sept. 27 and Nov. 11. In addition to live music, each venue will showcase the hot-selling Nintendo DS Lite and provide a sneak peek of Nintendos upcoming console, Wii.

Video games are as important to the pop culture landscape as music, says George Harrison, Nintendo of Americas senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. The Nintendo Fusion Tour has become a launching pad for the best in entertainment, from the hottest new bands to the best upcoming Nintendo products.

Hawthorne Heights will lead the bill, which also includes Relient K, Emery, Plain White Ts and The Sleeping. Many of the band members grew up playing Nintendo games, and the Nintendo Fusion Tour brings their two passions together.

Nintendo always picks great rock bands, and we are happy to follow in that tradition this year, says Hawthorne Heights singer JT Woodruff. But mainly, I am an old-school video game nerd. I still have my NES with over 500 games. I love everything Mario, and I accept no substitute. Bring on Wii!

With their debut, The Silence in Black and White shipping platinum and If Only You Were Lonely at gold status, it has been a whirlwind year for Hawthorne Heights. After television appearances on Conan OBrien and Jimmy Kimmel Live, the cover of magazines like Billboard and Alternative Press, a chart-topping alternative radio hit with Saying Sorry and video omnipresence on music television, the band has made legions of fans. See their new single, Pens and Needles on MTVs Total Request Live this summer.

Gotee/Capitol recording artist, Relient K, will release their fifth full-length album this Fall. Relient K have come a long way from their high school days in Canton, Ohio where they wrote some of their first songs in a Wendys break roomThey have headlined Warped tour, been nominated for Grammys, had singles in The Billboard Top 40 charts and have had three Gold records in a row. Matt Thiesen, lead singer for Relient K, says of the tour; I RC Pro Am really Excite Bike about this Rampage of a tour.

For Seattle-based Emery, being on the road isnt a way of life its THE way of life. Through years of pedal to the metal touring, Emery has amassed an undeniably loyal and dedicated fan base. With their well known frenetic, sweat soaked performances, and after selling over 200,000 records, the guys in Emery wont be pulling back their weighty passionate rock anytime soon.

Chicago quintet Plain White Ts are bringing energetic power pop and heartfelt lyrics to a whole new generation of young rock enthusiasts. With over 5 million total plays on MySpace.com and nearly 200,000 devoted friends, they are riding an unparalleled wave of frenzied word-of-mouth buzz. The Plain White Ts are known for their passionate and dynamic live set that always gets the crowd moving, and their show-stopping acoustic hit, Hey There Delilah, will have every girl in the audience singing along at the top of their lungs during the Nintendo Fusion Tour.

The Sleeping hit the studio in February 2006 with Michael Birnbaum and Chris Bittner at Applehead Studios (Coheed and Cambria, Straylight Run) to record their Victory debut, Questions and Answers. The songs are packed with undeniable hooks and contemporary textures, but their sonic landscapes are a lot like atmospheric and progressive bands from the 90s like Incubus and At The Drive In. Doug Robinson, vocalist, said, Our influences are really, really all over the place. We listen to everything from Nine Inch Nails to The Police to The Mars Volta; somehow we were able to take four diverse musical opinions and craft them into one interconnected album. From breakdowns to bongos, The Sleeping forges its own path and has a lot of depth that is often neglected by many fledgling bands.

Past Nintendo Fusion Tours have featured top bands like Fall Out Boy, Panic! At the Disco, My Chemical Romance, Story of the Year and Evanescence. For ticket availability, the latest tour information and news about the Nintendo Fusion Tour, visit www.nintendofusiontour.com. The site will be updated as complete details about this years tour become available.

Circuit City is the exclusive retail partner for the Nintendo Fusion Tour. The Nintendo Fusion Tour is being booked this year by Jeremy Holgersen and Mike Mori at The Agency Group.