Nintendo clarifies Q2 dates

By Tom Bramwell Published 7 December, 2007

Not finalised as yet.

Nintendo has sent out a note this morning explaining that Nintendo software release dates issued yesterday for Q2 2008 and beyond "have not been finalised or confirmed", although it did describe Mario Kart's as "fixed".

The information came after some (us included) got excited about Mario Kart Wii's presence in a Q2 slot, while others said, hang about, where's Super Smash Bros. Brawl?

"The Nintendo first and third party software line-up release schedule which was distributed by Nintendo on Thursday 6th December confirmed launch dates for Nintendo titles launching in Q1 2008," the statement today says.

"Nintendo also included some titles which were fixed for release beyond Q1 2008 such as Mario Kart Wii. All Nintendo software titles launching in Q2 2008 have not been finalised or confirmed to date. Nintendo will communicate on all software titles launching in Q2 2008 for Wii and Nintendo DS at a later date."

For the full release date list (for Q1 anyway!), check out our previous item.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • rhinoxious #1 4 years ago

    Just shut up and release some more games.

  • gingerlink #2 4 years ago

    which still means we won't be getting brawl in Q1, which means April at the earliest...

    2 months after the US...

    how come this happens and super mario galaxy managed a grand total of 5 days gap and phantom hourglass (which would've need a lot of translation) took just under 2 weeks...it's not even like there's much translation to do in brawl...

  • DonnieDarko333 #3 4 years ago

    Brawl will be released May won't it? Surely?

  • BlueDot #4 4 years ago

    This is the number 2 reason why I bought a US Wii. We always get stiffed in Europe.

  • Nostromo13 #5 4 years ago

    This just means that they're going to delay the release of smash bros even more, excellent.

  • spacenugget #6 4 years ago

    Again I ask where is Fire Emblem?
    A year delay is pretty huge to me, considering the likes of the already mentioned games!! (smg, metroid p3 etc)
    I dont understand why its been so long coming yet the US have it months! sigh

  • smelly #7 4 years ago

    "Again I ask where is Fire Emblem? "


    This is europe.. A place where good "different" games dont sell. You should be playing generic mainstream shit like halo

  • spacenugget #8 4 years ago

    True, sad how true it is to be honest.
    I was disappointed big time with most/all the xmas 360 games and exited with the wii releases...
    kinda funny because it was the total opposite last year.
    Q1 looks good too, even without Fire Emblem..... sigh

  • Canyarion #9 4 years ago

    "it's not even like there's much translation to do in brawl..."

    --> Incorrect. If it's anything like SSBM, every trophy comes with a lengthy description.

    Not that there is any way it should take 6 months to translate it....