Teppo Holmqvist

Launch window. Like I said, for sake of clarity, I have decided that in my list, launch window games are those that will be released before end of Nintendo's fiscal year (ends 31st of march). Fire Emblem, Disaster, Super Mario Galaxy, Wario Ware, Resident Evil all appear in Nintendo's own fiscal report and are slated to be released before end of this fiscal year. And I assume that Nintendo itself knows far more better what games are coming to Wii than IGN. Here is the link to the document*: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/news/060526.pdf Page 5, right panel; Nintendo's 1st party Wii titles for fiscal year 2006 Page 7, left panel; 3rd party Wii titles for fiscal year 2006, Japan Page 7, right panel; 3rd party Wii titles for fiscal year 2006, USA * Notice also that this document is from June, so it is little outdated (no Ubisoft titles, no Midway titles, etc.)

Hello, I don't know if this interests anyone, but decided to create to comprehensive list of games that are coming to Wii during its launch window. For sake of clarity, I have decided that in my list, launch window games are those that will be released before end of Nintendo's fiscal year (ends 31st of march). In the end of each game there is name of the company who is responsible for the game, and excepted release date (really rough estimates). Colour of game tells what genre game represents. I try to update game specific information so fast as wii get more data. Ant Bully (THQ, D1) Avatar: The Last Airbender (THQ, D1) Blazing Angel: Squadrons of World War II (Ubisoft, D1) Blitz: The League (Midway, D1) Call of Duty 3 (Activision, January 2007) Cars (THQ, probably D1) Diet Training (Nintendo, before christmas) Disaster: Day of Crisis (Nintendo, before Christmas) Disney's Meet the Robisons (THQ, before Christmas) Dragon Ball Z Budokai: Tenkaichi 2 (Atari, D1) Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (Square-Enix, D1) Elebits (Konami, D1) Excite Truck (Nintendo, D1) Far Cry (Ubisoft, D1) Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (Square-Enix, officially D1, but I strongly doubt it) Fire Emblem (Nintendo, March 2007?) Godfather (EA, during launch window) GT Pro series (Ubisoft, D1) Harry Potter (EA, during launch window) Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo, D1) Need for Speed: Carbon (EA, D1) Madden NFL '07 (EA, D1) Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Activision, December) Metal Slug Anthology (SNK, D1) Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Nintendo, D1) Monster 4x4 World Circuit (Ubisoft, D1) Mortal Kombat: Armageddon (Midway, March 2007?) Open Season (Ubisoft, D1) Prince of Persia (Ubisoft, March 2007?) Project H.A.M.M.E.R. (Nintendo, December) Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft, D1) Red Steel (Ubisoft, D1) Resident Evil (Capcom, March 2007?) Sonic: Secret of the Rings (Sega, February 2007) Splinter Cell: Double Agent (Ubisoft, during launch window) SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab (THQ, D1) SSX (EA, during launch window) Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo, March 2007?) Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Sega, D1) Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (EA, during launch window) Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Activision, D1) Trauma Center (Atlus, D1, probably only in Japan) WarioWare: Smooth Moves (Nintendo, December) Wii Sports (Nintendo, D1) D1 = Day one, game that has been promised to be available from day one Colour codes FPS Driving Shovelware Party RPG Adventure Action Sports Total number of games: 44 I'm honestly surprised how well each important genre has been represented in that list. SOURCES: Various, mostly IGN and Nintendo's own fiscal reports

Sarcasm is so difficult art to master...

It is budget title. Plus it has bump mapping, so it must be graphically incredible.

Gameplay video from latest build. Originally hosted on Gametrailers.com. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSY4L_Irt_0 Pretty smooth actually.

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And soo nice roster.... Everybody from earlier games. MK5? You mean Deadly Alliance? Mortal Kombat: Deception was based on DA, but was sooo much more refined game. It was actually quite enjoyable and fun, though I wouldn't call it any means very deep fighter. EDIT: Changed picture to one where all hidden characters have been unlocked. Thanks to AbsoluteZero.

Shame that they removed Kombat Chess ja Puzzle Kombat from Armageddon. Instead you have Mortal Kart, kart game where you drive with MK characters.

Mario doesn't make any game worse or better. So I can't really understand why people are always moaning Nintendo using Mario. Especially because Mario sport games weren't cash-ins, they were quite good and arcadey sport games. Tennis was fine also. Only bad game in the series was Baseball, and that was made by Namco*, not Camelot. * And when you actually look Namco's run with GC, you notice that it wasn't that stellar: Donkey Konga, Starfox Assault and Mario Baseball. EDIT: And Camelot's own webpages don't say anything about Camelot quiting working with Nintendo. They just are doing this golf game for Yahoo! of Japan.

Seriously, Mario sports games were best thing that came out from Camelot since Shining Force. Golden Sun's weren't never that great. Yeah, to do cute golf MMORPG that looks pretty similar to Mario Golf. Here is picture: http://www.gfdata.de/archiv07-2006-gamefront/golf.jpg

From Super Mario Land.

It is probably fake then. But still sooo awesome.

Here is some more harder characters: Tom Tom (on the middle of the picture, fighting for tomahawk with M. Higgins) Master Higgins (on the middle of the picture, Adventure Island) Cat Ship (on right top corner, Parodius Da!) Fish Ship (Cat Ships shoot this, Darius Gaiden) Snow Brothers (behind Morton R. Koopa, Snow Brothers) Outrun Car (Luigi drives it, Outrun) Kid Dracula (sitting on the white platform, Kid Dracula) Rick (next to Dr. Eggman, Splatterhouse [note: this is chibiversion from Splatterhouse: Wanpakku Graffitti])

But in the other hand, maybe that is the idea. Everybody knows that Mario & comp will be featured in Virtual Console. By showing less popular characters Nintendo can prove that they really have wide range of different games on VC. BTW, am I sick because I can recognise most (about 80 percent) of characters that appear on that image?

BTW, have you noticed which seven companies are represented in that picture? Capcom, Namco, Konami, Nintendo, Square-Enix Taito, Sega and Hudson. edit: fix'd

There is slight possibility this is fake, but if it is, it is still damn fine picture.

That's why it is bullshit. GDRAM3 is Samsung's version of low-latency memory and in direct competition with MoSys. There won't be any way that MoSys would provide those for Wii's.

Hmh, I personally smell bullshit. First of all, source for this crap is deleted post from Nintendo's own forums. And we all know how bad place that is. Secondly, these are direct copy from IGN article (even wording matches in some places). Thirdly, Nintendo spends millions and millions of dollars to MoSys and then decides not to use their memory? EDIT: Little addition. MoSys doesn't even have MEM2 based solutions....

Sure, that's why Super Mario Bros 3 was so brilliant game. "Fat plumber with red overalls runs around the world, trying to rescue princess from evil Koopa"

Oh well... someone will be pissed about this, but I couldn't care less.... In my humble opinion 99.9 percent of videogames have horrible, stupid and cliched stories if compared to fine literature or well done movies. Metal Gear Solid 2, for example, had incredibly stupid plot that made me just shake my head. It had so many contradictions, corny one-liners and characters that acted unbelievably. And even that wasn't even enough. Story's pacing was horrible and in many scenes any sense of drama was spoilt by cutting into twenty minute long Codec conversations that really didn't anything to story. For "The Matrix / Pirates of the Caribbean" generation story was probably hottest thing ever...

Indeed...

Ahem... Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is from Activision, company that has been responsible for Spider-Man 2, Ultimate Spider-Man, X-Men Legends and X-Men Legends 2.

Cube is my primary console, but I have paid full price for only two games on that list; Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes and Mario Kart: Double Dash (and I regret it). Others have been bought as used or from bargain bins or christmas presents. Average price for single game is around 24 euros in that list. Actually it is still in theworks for Cube. It appeared on this fiscal years release list and it should be released around christmas. I'm just not sure that will we ever see it in the west.

Thanks. I ironically had read magazine today, but skipped the interview because I excepted it to not have anything new. If someone wants to read interview, latest issue of Hardcore Gamer Magazine can be download free as a PDF from company's own site (you need latest Adobe Acrobat or other PDF 1.6 compliant reader). Link is below: http://www.luv2game.com/luv2game/index.html?fuseaction=news.shownews&news_id=55