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Nintendo's second-quarter lineup includes Wii Play sequel photo

Early this morning, we informed you that Nintendo had settled on a June 19 release date for Ocarina of Time 3D in the US. Nintendo has now supplied us with a list of first- and third-party titles that will be dropping on its platforms through the end of the summer. As was (disappointingly) expected, the Wii and DS lineups are rather anemic, while the 3DS lineup doesn't feature anything we weren't already aware of.

However, there is a "surprise" in the form of Wii Play: Motion, a follow-up to the near-launch Wii Remote hitchhiker that everyone loves to talk smack about. Motion will include 12 new minigames as well as the updated Wii Remote Plus. It looks to have a release date of June 13, just a week prior to Ocarina.

I have mixed feelings about this news. Nintendo is really feeling the heat to turn Wii's fortunes back, but I'm disappointed that it is resorting to reaching back into the Wii's launch window library for a quick injection. It's like Nintendo is tapped out of ideas for the Wii Remote. I'm also not sure if a Wii Play sequel will have any kind of impact at this point.

Oh well. E3 is around the corner. In the meantime, hit the jump to see the rest of the lineup.

Wii

                 
Publisher       Game       Available
Activision       Transformers: Dark of the Moon Stealth Force Edition       June 14
Deep Silver, Inc.       Get Fit with Mel B       Spring
Disney Interactive Studios       LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game       May
Disney•Pixar       Cars 2: The Video Game       Summer
Graffiti Entertainment, Inc.       Reader Rabbit® Preschool       April
Reader Rabbit® Kindergarten       April
Reader Rabbit® 1st Grade       April
      Reader Rabbit® 2nd Grade       April
Konami Digital Entertainment       Karaoke Revolution Glee: Volume 2       Spring
NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.       ExerBeat       April 26
Nintendo Wii Play: Motion       June 13
      Mystery Case Files: Dust to Dust       June 27
SEGA Thor: God of Thunder       May 3
      The Conduit 2       April 12
THQ Inc. Rio       April 12
SpongeBob SquigglePants       April 12
      Kung Fu Panda® 2       May 24
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment       Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters       June 7
     
 

Nintendo DS Family

                 
Publisher       Game       Available
Activision Transformers: Dark of the Moon AUTOBOTS       June 14
Transformers: Dark of the Moon DECEPTICONS       June 14
      Squinkies       April 12
Bergsala Lightweight LLC       Loving Life with Hello Kitty® and Friends       May 10
Deep Silver, Inc.       Duke Nukem: Critical Mass       Q2
Disney Interactive Studios       LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game       May
Disney•Pixar       Cars 2: The Video Game       Summer
Easy Interactive Hollywood Files       June 14
Picture Puzzle Collection       May 17
      Match 3 Madness       May 3
Konami Digital Entertainment       Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s World Championship 2011       May 10
Majesco Entertainment       Cake Mania Main Street       May
SEGA       Thor: God of Thunder       May 3
THQ Inc. Rio       April 12
Paws & Claws Pampered Pets 2       April 19
      Kung Fu Panda® 2       May 24
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment LEGO® Battles: Ninjago       Spring
      Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters       June 7
 
 

Nintendo 3DS

                 
Publisher       Game       Available
Activision       Transformers: Dark of the Moon Stealth Force Edition 3D       June 14
Aksys Games Localization, Inc.       BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II       May 24
Crave Games       Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion       May 24
D3 Publisher       Dream Trigger 3D       April
Disney Interactive Studios       LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game       May
NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. DualPenSports       May
      PAC-MAN® & Galaga® DIMENSIONS       June
Nintendo       The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D       June 19
NIS America, Inc.       Cave Story 3D       June 28
TECMO KOEI AMERICA CORP.       DEAD OR ALIVE® Dimensions       May
THQ Inc.       SpongeBob SquigglePants       May 17
Ubisoft Entertainment Driver® Renegade       Spring
Rabbids® Travel in Time       April 10
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® 3D       April 10
      James Noir’s Hollywood Crimes       June 7
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment       Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters       June 7







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AstralDrmz's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:28
AstralDrmz
BlazBlue! I didn't expect to buy a game next month, but I may get it.
LeviticusKitty's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:34
LeviticusKitty
You think that I haven't been waiting months for something to come out on Wii and that I'm not OVERJOYED to have the chance to 'catch wind in a virtual umbrella by tilting the remote?' Or that I have to buy another wii remote/wii motion plus combo to get it? This is a WIN/WIN scenario - I've been waiting my whole life to tilt umbrellas, but I don't have the ability to do this IRL.
Gilgamesh1317's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:34
Gilgamesh1317
The UK 3DS release schedule is horribly disappointing; very small and with only Dead Or Alive: Dimensions and Ocarina 3D being of any actual worth.

Nintendo better reveal some good stuff at E3.
GoofierBrute's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:34
GoofierBrute
Fuck all those other games, Reader Rabbit is where it's at!
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:35
Tubatic
Enh. I'll play it if its got interesting/fun uses of the motion plus fidelity.
True Axiom's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:39
True Axiom
Ironic that the one console trying to be a "game console" and not a media hub has, by far, the fewest games. This is when the Wii should be hitting its stride. Hell, this is when the Wii should be mid stride, and the fact that there are literally *no* games coming out for it is extremely disheartening.
Jim Heine's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:39
Jim Heine
It did NOT take long for shovelware to start hitting the 3DS, did it?
Scissors's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:45
Scissors
I wish Nintendo would do something with WM+, They bundled it with Wii Sports Resort, with all new Wiis, Fling Smash and now this. Enough people have it for them to start making games that use it exclusively. Why do they keep packing it with things if they aren't really using it?

Red Steel 2 was pretty fun, and Skyward Sword looks promising, But the list of WM+ games kinda sucks. Only 5 games require you to use it, the rest are optional

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_support_Wii_MotionPlus
forrest14's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:47
forrest14
Ehh as someone that always buys a console at launch I'm actually happy with the rate at which decent exclusives are coming to the 3DS. Plus it's not like I can play 2 games at once anyway.

Anyone remember the PS3 or DS?
MuddBstrd's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:50
MuddBstrd
Cue the E3 presentation where Nintendo will swear up and down that it isn't ignoring the gamer. I swear, we go through this song and dance every year these days.
Gaming in Public's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:56
Gaming in Public
Conduit 2 for life!
LReiviN's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 14:57
LReiviN
this is a sad list
RenegadePanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:02
RenegadePanda
Holy shi-

DOA and BlazBlue in the same month? Then Zelda and Cave Story in the following month? Someone pinch me because I'm clearly dreaming. I'll be finished with Splinter Cell 3D by then, which so far is reasonably entertaining despite terrible graphics and framerate.

As for the Wii stuff...well, yeah. I guess Conduit 2 might be decent.
Dr Light ate your Magicite's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:10
Dr Light ate your Magicite
I already knew the list would not include The Last Story, Xenoblade, etc., so it really had no chance. And if we're not getting those titles, I'd rather see them breathe more life into the Virtual Console. There are so many great games that could be pushed out, yet they seem to be content with holding its progress to an agonizing trickle.

Regarding the 3DS, I've never bought a console at launch, and this is exactly why. I can't think of any console where it didn't take a year or so before the catalog started looking attractive enough to warrant a purchase. I don't have the funds to support multiple consoles for the current generation, so I always take a wait-and-see approach before investing.
tehTommy's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:11
tehTommy
Dang it, still no Cave Story on European DSiWare :(
PEICanada7's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:11
PEICanada7
"It did NOT take long for shovelware to start hitting the 3DS, did it?"

What do you mean shovelware? If you're talking about the movie tie-in games, than name one single console that hasn't had movie tie-in games on it? So did you honestly think that the 3DS would be any different, from any other gaming system in history?
Lucien Dark's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:13
Lucien Dark
I genuinely don't understand this. Last year the Wii got a stack of great games which revitalised interest in the platform, and this year Nintendo follow that up with pretty much nothing. What the fuck, Nintendo :-(
Dv8thwonder's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:23
Dv8thwonder
Family oriented games for a family oriented 'videogame' console. Nothing out of the ordinary here.

If anything this list speaks volumes of certain 3rd parties not in attendance. *cough*Capcom*cough*EA.
GohanGVO's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:28
GohanGVO
This just confirms what I had long suspected: third-parties are finished with the Wii while Nintendo's own studios work on 3DS (and, presumably, Wii 2) software.

And while there is a handful or so of intriguing Wii titles slated for Japan this year, there is no guarantee that they'll make their way over here (in other words, you suck, NoA).
Issun's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:29
Issun
Well at least here in Europe we have FREAKIN' SOLATOROBO on July 1st !!!
Oh and OoT on the 17th of June : This is a great semester
Darren Nakamura's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:35
Darren Nakamura
Wii Play Motion, it's like Wii Play, except now with motion control! Wait...
Dv8thwonder's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:35
Dv8thwonder
Also *cough*Namco/Bandai*cough*Konami

R.I.P Hudson
Epic-Kx's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:38
Epic-Kx
Cave Story and DOA: dimensions fo sho, but I might as well pick u--WOAHWOAHWOAH BLAZBLUE CS2?! FUCK OOT NOW!
pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 15:54
pedrovay2003
Motion? What, did the first Wii Play not have motion in it?

Also, that's a pretty bad 3DS lineup aside from Zelda and Cave Story...
PossibleCabbage's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 16:01
PossibleCabbage
The way the chart was laid out lead me to initially believe that there was such a game as "Transformers™: Dark of the Moon™ DECEPTICONS™ Squinkies". I am now terribly disappointed.
Trolly's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 16:16
Trolly
The Wii is a sad state of affair. Hopefully Nintendo learns a lesson from it about longevity of sales and outdated hardware
BalloonFighter's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 16:19
BalloonFighter
It is pretty light but I have been so busy that I have plenty of backlog.
Zezzler's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 17:20
Zezzler
Wow nintendo. thats one staggering list. I really like your awesome wii games like... uhh. hrmm. i guess conduit 2.
bobyoko's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 17:20
bobyoko
you guys don't really think that this is all they've got planned, do you? if so, i've some stuff to sell that you might be interested in...

anyway, wii play motion is an auto buy for me, mostly because the tanks minigame in the first title was about as awesome as awesome gets.
Dunsparce4Prez's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 17:21
Dunsparce4Prez
Meh. I'll pick up Wii Play Motion, a 3DS, and OoT. I hope the holidays look better.
fetusmilk's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 18:20
fetusmilk
i think nintendo needs to stop making home consoles and just stick with handhelds.
or go the way of sega and just start making games for the other systems.
Scissors's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 20:17
Scissors
@ PossibleCabbage

Damnit, I wanted to play Decepticon Squinkies
Mr fairenhieght's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 20:41
Mr fairenhieght
and all im seeing here are Zelda, Blazblue and Doa and maybe the conduit 2 as games id buy. sorta wanna see how thor and green lanturn turn out on the handhelds as the consle versions will suck
greenellow's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 21:53
greenellow
As god as my witness if NoA doesn't release Solatorobo in the their territory. i will go on a violent rampage, like world has never seen
Salnax's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/12/2011 23:15
Salnax
It could be worse. The Wii IS getting a couple of good looking games, which is more than you could say for Q1. Conduit 2 has a good chance of becoming the best FPS on the system, LEGO Pirates will inevitably be solid, and SpongeBob SquigglePants has potential. The DS, meanwhile, still has a couple of games left.

The only great news is the 3DS. BlazBlue, Ocarina of Time, Cave Story, and Dead or Alive all look like truly great games, and games like Punch Time Explosion, Rabbids Travel in Time, and Dream Trigger could also do well. By the end of June, the 3DS should have a decent library.
mug3n's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/13/2011 08:10
mug3n
@pedrovay2003
Are you serious? DoA:D and Blazblue CS2 which IMO are better than zelda or cave story.
plufim's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/13/2011 08:59
plufim
"I genuinely don't understand this. Last year the Wii got a stack of great games which revitalised interest in the platform, and this year Nintendo follow that up with pretty much nothing. What the fuck, Nintendo :-("

most of those were revealed at E3 and came out in the latter half of the year, so last years pattern doesn't really apply. Now if E3 has nothing new in store for the wii, then yeah, what the fuck indeed. Right now it's just a shitty Q2, and Q2 is generally pretty shitty.
funkman009's Avatar - Comment posted on 11/01/2011 16:52
funkman009
This is when the Wii should be hitting its stride.Racing games Hell, this is when the Wii should be mid stride, Hacked games and the fact that there are literally *no* games coming out for it is extremely disheartening.Logic Games
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