11:07 AM on 12.20.2006
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In light of the Prince of Persia Wii announcement, a few of us on Destructoid were debating whether or not the Wii would succumb to the same fate as the GameCube. While some of us believe the console will see several quick and dirty ports that won't compare to their PS3 and 360 counterparts, several of us still have enough faith in developers to believe that eventually the Wii will be blessed with a large library of games built specifically for the system from the ground up. Whether or not this will be the case is something only time will tell. One thing's for sure, though ... there isn't going to be a lack of games for either the Wii, or its cousin in concept; the DS.
Hit the jump for a list of titles scheduled for the Wii and DS throughout the first quarter of 2007 in Europe. Note that some of these have already seen their U.S. release, but there are quite a few on that list have yet to be seen.
Wii titles:
1. Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Nintendo) 12 Jan 2007
2. Excite Truck (Nintendo) 16 Feb 2007
3. Kororinpa (Hudson) 23 Feb 2007
4. Baja Racing (Conspiracy) Feb 2007
5. Disney’s Chicken Little: Ace in Action (Disney / Buena Vista Games) Feb 2007
6. Wing Island (Hudson) 23 March 2007
7. BIONICLE Heroes (Eidos) 23 March 2007
8. SSX Blur (EA) March 2007
9. Mario Party 8 (Nintendo) March 2007
10. Tiger Woods PGA TOUR (EA) March 2007
11. Bust a Move Wii (505Games) March 2007
12. Dragonball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (Namco Bandai Games) March 2007
13. Disney’s Meet the Robinsons (Disney / Buena Vista Games) March 2007
14. Sonic and the Secret Rings (SEGA) March 2007
15. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ubisoft) March 2007
16. Heatseaker (Codemasters) Q1 2007
17. Metal Slug Anthology (Ignition) Q1 2007 (Jan?)
18. Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Midway Games) Q1 2007 (March?)
19. Rampage Total Destruction (Midway Games) Q1 2007
20. The Ant Bully (Movie License) (Midway Games) Q1 2007
21. The Grim Adventure of Billy and Mandy (Midway Games) Q1 2007
22. Impossible Mission (System 3) Q1 2007
23. Leaderboard Golf (System 3) Q1 2007
24. Puzzle Balls (System 3) Q1 2007
25. Tennis Masters (System 3) Q1 2007
26. Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII (Ubisoft) Q1 2007
DS titles:
1. Children of Mana (Nintendo) 12th Jan 2007
2. Star Fox Command (Nintendo) 26th Jan 2007
3. Actionloop (Nintendo) 26th Jan 2007
4. Freedom Wings (ZOO Digital) 26th Jan 2007
5. Guru Guru (505Games) Jan 2007
6. Labyrinth (505Games) Jan 2007
7. Monster Puzzle (505Games) Jan 2007
8. Mystery Detective (505Games) Jan 2007
9. The Professors Brain Trainer: Logic (505Games) Jan 2007
10. The Professors Brain Trainer: Memory (505Games) Jan 2007
11. Mech Assault Phantom War (Majesco) Jan 2007
12. Flipper Critters (Conspiracy) Jan 2007
13. Contact (Marvelous/Rising Star Games) 2nd Feb 2007
14. New Zealand Story (Marvelous/Rising Star Games) 2nd Feb 2007
15. Uno/Skipbo Compilation/Uno Freefall (ZOO Digital) 2nd Feb 2007
16. Disney’s Kim Possible Global Gemini (Disney/Buena Vista Games) 8th Feb 2006
17. Magical Starsign (Nintendo) 9th Feb 2007
18. Mario Slam Basketball (Nintendo) 16th Feb 2007
19. Lionel Trains “On Track” (ZOO Digital) 16th Feb 2007
20. Guilty Gear Dust Strikers (Majesco/THQ) 20th Feb 2007
21. Fossil League (D3Publisher of Europe) 23rd Feb 2007
22. Bomberman Land (Marvelous/Rising Star Games) 23rd Feb 2007
23. Uno 52 (ZOO Digital) 23rd Feb 2007
24. Monster Bomber (505Games) Feb 2007
25. Touch Party Game (505Games) Feb 2007
26. Turn it Around (505Games) Feb 2007
27. Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (Activision) Feb 2007
28. Shrek Smash ‘N Crash Racing (Activision) Feb 2007
29. Party Carnival (D3Publisher of Europe) Feb 2007
30. Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (Konami) Feb 2007
31. Death Jr. And The Science Fair of Doom (Konami) Feb 2007
32. Lunar Knights (Konami) Feb 2007
33. My Frogger Toy Trials (Konami) Feb 2007
34. Xiaolin Showdown (Konami) Feb 2007
35. Dino Master (Majesco) Feb 2007
36. Super Black Bass Fishing (Majesco) Feb 2007
37. Gunpey (Namco Bandai Games) Feb 2007
38. Danny Phantom Urban Jungle (THQ) 2nd Mar 2007
39. Actua Pool (ZOO Digital) 2nd Mar 2007
40. Princess Natasha “Student-Secret Agent-Princess” (ZOO Digital) 2nd Mar 2007
41. Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis (Nintendo) 9th March 2007
42. Spectrobes (Disney/Buena Vista Games) 15th Mar 2007
43. Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft) 15th Mar 2007
44. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice For All (Capcom) Q1 2007
45. Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (D3Publisher of Europe) 16th Mar 2007
46. Bubble Bobble Double Shot (Marvelous/Rising Star Games) 16th Mar 2007
47. Schach (dtp) 16th Mar 2007
48. Best Friends – Hunde & Katzen (dtp) 23rd Mar 2007
49. Hello Kitty (Empire) 23rd Mar 2007
50. Pokémon Ranger (Nintendo) 30th March 2007
51. Mein Gestüt (tentative name) 30th Mar 2007
52. Kameleon DS (505Games) Mar 2007
53. Touch Detective (505Games) – French version Mar 2007
54. Disney’s Meet The Robinsons (Disney/Buena Vista Games) Mar 2007
55. Diner Dash (Eidos) Mar 2007
56. Zendoku (Eidos) Mar 2007
57. SEGA Presents Touch Darts (working title) (SEGA) Mar 2007
58. Petz Vet (Ubisoft) Mar 2007
59. The Settlers (Ubisoft) Mar 2007
60. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ubisoft) Mar 2007
61. Theme Park (EA) Spring 2007
62. Micro Machines V4 (Codemasters) Q1 2007
63. Rafa Nadal Tennis (Codemasters) Q1 2007
64. Garfield Nightmare (Classic) (Game Factory/K.E. Media) Q1 2007
65. Harlem Globetrotters World Tour (ZOO Digital) Q1 2007
66. March of the Penguins (ZOO Digital) Q1 2007
67. Wiffle Ball Advance (ZOO Digital) Q1 2007
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my GC had some good times but they were far and few between...
Wii seems to be better but only by a little bit... Me having all 3 systems helps out but no doubt my Wii will sit inactive the most same as my GC did last round. Could always hold out for Resident Evil 5 on Wii (OH WAIT, it won't be).
Nice little FPS built around it? Sign me up.
Someone would also do well to create a decently designed platformer, similar to Rachet and Clank but without Mario.
I like action titles, but sometimes what I need is to run from one end of a room to another killing everything in my path while collecting crap.
I'm going to throw out concepts and developers can take note of which ones you can dig up, make a Wii capable sequel of, and justify developing exclusives on the Wii. Ready?
Contra
Soul Calibur
Sega Bass Fishing (Rapala, you shut the F*@K UP!)
Castlevania SOTN
Mega Man
Toy Commander
Jet Set Radio
Wrecking Crew (I would pay dearly to have a game where I basically destroy a building floor by floor with various tools in 3D, destructible enviroments, FTW)
Pikmin
NHL
NBA
Guitar Hero
Age of Empires (It's on the DS...)
SimCity
Archery
Horse Racing Sim (We DO have these in US arcades, port one to the home console...)
And the two ton elephant in the room...
Star Wars...
So, if any of you developers wanna pull your heads out of your shells, take these concepts, pick which ones you want to from your own IP's and get to work. PLEASE. While I don't think the Wii will fail at all, keeping 3rd parties in the game is something that the 3rd parties themselves need to work on. There's a reason why Nintendo's titles sell so much better on past consoles than 3rd party titles.
When we have Zelda and the only competitor it faces is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, you kinda see what the developers AREN'T doing.
If a developer wants to go out there and develop a really good game, not necessarily one based on any World Wars, licensed properties, or Mario, study the other guys and find out what they did to be successful.
I mean for every warmed over rehash we see every year, there's elements to those games that made the originals so successful. Jak and Daxter, Rachet and Clank, GTA, Katamari Damacy, Halo all got a BIG push in this last generation. Why? That's for you to figure out and make it your own.
As for the Wii well I've never lost hope but I'm well aware of the fact that not all companies take the console real serious yet, it takes a while before these slow big companies start to think in different ways.
Wanna leave the NSFW photos OUT of the comments?
Go over to some other board to post that shit.
PLEASE? I mean a chesty bust shot is one thing to categorize as NSFW, but every friggin person in my office would be able to identify with and potentially be offended by that photo.
Jesus.
Don't post uncensored porn on the blog, dude. You'll end up just getting the site filtered out by a lot of people's office firewalls for that crap, and NO one posting at this time of day in the US, like you or myself, would want to have the site blocked because of decade old bukkake photos.
Weeeeeeak.
There is a Wii Horse Racing Sim. I think it's by Namco but I'm not sure.
That said, if I don't see an assload of awesome third party games announced for 2008 (or at least a few DECENT third party games.. none of the third party games currently known about on the Wii are anything special) than the Wii is a failure in my eyes.
There will be a lot of games, but only about ten percent will be worth playing.
"that other system i have"
once i kill Zelda and Warioware ...
WHAT THEN? clearly there will be huge gaps between great games..AGAIN.
i can't even imagine when a Mario Kart will be released if
everything else is for Christmas 2007....
since the N64, nintendo systems dont get any
3rd party killer app titles, this gen won't be any different.
you know it.
why dont they just become a third party.
Commenters, note that this is the european Q1 lineup. We always get the shitty end of the stick(ie. yanks will get more). Also, you can bet there'll be a few more that just sneak out there.