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Wii: games in development News
Wii News by Tom Bramwell
Closer examination of Nintendo Japan's enormous list of software titles in development for Wii reveals that Big Brain Academy, Super Paper Mario, Kirby and others will be making the leap in 2007.
The full list mentions Super Paper Mario (previously a Cube-only title - we've asked Nintendo what that version's fate is), Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race, Hoshi no Kirby, Mario Party 8, Eyeshield 21, a new light-gun style title from SEGA and "Wii Music".
It also pegs the Japanese release of Fire Emblem as February.
Big Brain Academy will form part of Nintendo's "Touch! Generations" push for Wii, and will include multiplayer versus and co-op modes for two players, along with brain-training activities similar to those of the DS version.
The full list of Japanese titles, which I had an enormous amount of fun formatting, follows.
Launch titles
- Elebits (Konami)
- Ennichi no Tatsujin (Namco Bandai)
- Hajimete no Wii aka "Wii Play" (Nintendo)
- Kororinpa (Hudson)
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
- Machi-Kuru Domino (Success)
- Necro-Nesia (Spike)
- Red Steel (Ubisoft)
- SD Gundam Revolution (Namco Bandai)
- Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (SEGA)
- Swing Golf Pangya (Tecmo)
- Tamagotchi no Pikapika Daitouryou (Namco Bandai)
- Trauma Centre: Second Opinion (Atlus)
- Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Nintendo)
- Wii Sports (Nintendo)
- Wing Island (Hudson)
December 6th titles
- Bleach Wii (SEGA)
- Cooking Mama (Taito)
- Crayon Shin-chan (Banpresto)
- Furifuri (Taito)
- Mahjong Wii (KOEI)
- Need For Speed: Carbon (EA)
- Pokemon Battle Revolution (Nintendo)
- Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft)
- Sengoku Musou Wave (KOEI)
- Sudoku (Hudson)
- Tsuri Master (Hudson)
2007 (working titles where staggeringly obvious)
- 3D Action game (Takara Tomy)
- 3D Boxing Action game (AQ Interactive)
- Action Game (ASNetworks)
- Action Game (Epoch)
- Action game (Takara Tomy)
- Action Game (Banpresto)
- Action Game (From Software)
- Action RPG (From Software)
- Bachindaa (Hudson, February)
- Barnyard (THQ)
- Baseball Game (Konami)
- Battle Action game (Takara Tomy)
- Biohazard: Umbrella Chronicles (Capcom)
- Bokujou Monogatari Wii (Marvelous Interactive)
- Bomberman Land (Hudson, March)
- Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
- Cars (THQ)
- Crossword (Hudson, March)
- Dairantou Smash Bros. X (Nintendo)
- Densha de Go! (Taito)
- Disaster (Nintendo, spring)
- Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race (Nintendo)
- Doubutsu no Mori (Nintendo)
- Dragon Ball Z Sparking! NEO (Namco Bandai, January)
- Dragon Quest Swords (Square Enix, spring)
- Excite Truck (Nintendo, January)
- Eyeshield 21 (Nintendo)
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearer (Square Enix)
- Fire Emblem: Akatsuki no Megami (Nintendo, February)
- Fishing Game (ASNetworks, summer)
- Forever Blue (Nintendo)
- GT pro series (MTO)
- Gun Shooting game (SEGA)
- Harry Potter (EA)
- Heroes (Spike)
- Horse Racing Action game (KOEI)
- Hoshi no Kirby (Nintendo)
- Java (Spike, spring)
- Jigsaw Puzzle (Hudson, March)
- Kawano Nushi-Tsuri Series (Marvelous Interactive)
- Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
- Mario Strikers Charged (Nintendo)
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Activision)
- Metroid Prime 3 Corruption (Nintendo)
- Mobile Suit Gundam (Namco Bandai)
- Music simulation game (Konami)
- New Action Adventure Game 1 (Konami)
- New Action Adventure Game 2 (Konami)
- New RPG (KOEI)
- Noumiso Konekone Puzzle Takoron (Compile Heart, summer)
- One Piece: Unlimited Adventure (Namco Bandai)
- Original Action game (D3 Publisher)
- Original Simulation game (Marvelous Interactive)
- Pac-Man Carnival (Namco Bandai)
- Princess Company (Starfish SD)
- Project Hammer (Nintendo)
- RPG (Konami)
- San-X Allstar for Wii (MTO)
- Shooting Game (ASNetworks, summer)
- Simple series (D3 Publisher)
- Soccer Game (Konami)
- Sonic and the Secret Rings (SEGA)
- Soothing character action game (MTO)
- SpongeBob SquarePants (THQ)
- SSX (EA)
- Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
- Super Paper Mario (Nintendo)
- Sword Fighting Action game (Interchannel-Holon)
- Sword of Legendia (Namco Bandai)
- The Dog Island (Yuke's)
- Tiger Woods PGA Tour (EA)
- Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Activision)
- Totsugeki Famicom Wars W (Nintendo)
- Wii Music (Nintendo)
- Wii Yawaraka Atama Juku (Nintendo, spring)
Dunno about you, but I'm looking forward to Soothing Character Action Game, although I might buy New Action Adventure Game 2 instead.
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the_dudefather
15/09/06 @ 16:46
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New Action Adventure Game 2: legend of New Action Adventure Game 1
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Notice Super Paper Mario is on that list.. I presume it's no longer a gcube game?
>Not sure about half of those. how do you mean? Half of them dont even have a name! And as for the other half, how can u tell anything from just a name? Still .. Im a lot more excited by most of those than i was by the whole year of 360 titles.
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SenselessThing
15/09/06 @ 17:55
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"Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race"
Wasn't this a GC game at E3 as well as super paper mario? |
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I'll have.........
Swing Golf Pangya. Rayman Raving Rabbids. Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. At launch. And..... Super Mario Galaxy. Super Paper Mario. When they come out.... I'll wait to see the reviews of Red Steel to see if it's worth buying. Soccer Game (Konami) I wonder what that's about? :) |
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Meglomaniac
15/09/06 @ 23:57
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Not a bad list of games, makes me more excited for the impending launch. Speaking of which, I am trying to raise money to buy myself a Wii by selling items with a Wii-like logo on it. help a gamer out check out the items at: http://www.cafepress.com/wgear/
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manic_mouse
16/09/06 @ 11:40
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"The Wii isn't region-locked... Why would you say that?"
It is, or so say NOE. |
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RobTheBuilder
16/09/06 @ 11:54
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Ennichi no Tatsujin!!!!!!!!!
As in Taiko No Tatsujin.....as in the Bongo game but Wiified! That better make it to the UK Nintendo. Otherwise there'll be Region locking hell to pay. |
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darkbhudda
16/09/06 @ 14:54
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Necro-Nesia?
I just realised how awesome an autopsy or surgery game would be using the wii-mote. |
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"Not a bad list of games, makes me more excited for the impending launch. Speaking of which, I am trying to raise money to buy myself a Wii by selling items with a Wii-like logo on it. help a gamer out check out the items at: http://www.cafepress.com/wgear/"
lol! Shameless. Best of luck though! |
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SuperGamerMatt
17/09/06 @ 18:05
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I want:
Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess Red Steel Wing Island (maybe) Biohazard Excite Truck (maybe) Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles Fire Emblem Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (maybe) Sonic And The Secret Rings Super Mario Galaxy Ohh, still not sure between Wii and 360, I'm not sure if my friends would want to come round my house to play Wii, or rather play 360 round my mates.... |
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That's quite an impressive number of games available within the first week of launch, with Zelda being the heavy-hitter and maybe Wario Ware as well for the Japanese market.
I wonder what the Ennichi no Tatsujin game is. I'm hoping for a Taiko no Tatsujin, but I'm afraid it is not... 2007 is already looking like a quality year already :D And btw, do i see an Advance Wars (Famicom Wars) title in there? :O |
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nickthegun
18/09/06 @ 08:52
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Yeah, but lets not start blowing wads in our pants just yet.
A LOT of people I know have more import GC games that domestically bought ones, which I would think is very rare for any home console. The european release schedule was appalling and, if they continue in that vein, Wii owners will be lucky to see a 3rd of that list and in the same decade they came out in Japan. And, yes, they are not the only ones guilty of this. I have more import PSP games than domestic too.... |
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