The 27 Known Wii Launch Titles 194
Via Joystiq comes a long list of the launch-day titles for the Nintendo Wii, posted at Nwizard. I was aware that they had quite a few coming out around launch, but 27 is pretty impressive. Selections include highly anticipated titles like Red Steel and Twilight Princess, as well as several titles that I personally am looking forward too, such as Metroid Corruption, Trauma Center: Second Opinion, and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers.
Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Score:2, Funny)
I guess I never thought of the special remote to be a cutting edge. What next? Prison Break: Shank or Be Shanked?
Re:Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Trauma Center: Second Opinion (Score:2)
And it's true that the tutor tips are quite annoying, but the clock stops while they are up.
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Mario not far behind, but... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Mario not far behind, but... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Mario not far behind, but... (Score:2)
Rail = Rail
Re:Mario not far behind, but... (Score:2)
It had a Luigi game, but who plays Luigi games?
Trauma Center! (Score:5, Insightful)
Although release games do not mean much in the long run, this list is not the tradition batch of driving, shooting, and shooting while driving games that other consoles seem to love.
Re:Trauma Center! (Score:2)
"Your honor, when Miss Sanders woke up all she saw was Mr. Andrewman standing over her muttering "this isn't the game.. This isn't the game" and was thrown back into shock cracking her head open on the concrete"
Re:Trauma Center! (Score:4, Funny)
"Now Miss Sanders, could you please tell the court what happened."
"Well, the ambulance crashed into my car and started on fire. As I turned to run away the driver lept from the vehicle with a baseball bat and struck me until the money from my purse began glowing green and levitating near me. He then stood over me, shouted 'Live damnit!' and I was fine."
Re:Trauma Center! (Score:2)
Re:Trauma Center! (Score:2)
Um - I understand the joke, but forcing someone into a car in order to have sex with them is rape according to most people, not some. Right?
Re:Trauma Center! (Score:2)
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Re:Trauma Center! (Score:2)
public void shooting()
{
System.out.println("You missed the vein. Please try again");
patient.life()--;
if(patient.life() > 0){shooting();}
else {patient.kill(bloodloss);}
}
Re:Trauma Center! (Score:2)
That's like if I was a garbagement and spent my weekends driving around picking up empty soda cans.
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Also, I do not get to do
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With a Palm, they can look busy and professional though.
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Dear Lord... (Score:2)
Re:Dear Lord... (Score:3, Funny)
Impressive. though a slight flaw. (Score:5, Interesting)
It also takes the 360 launch and the PS3 launch and makes them both decently laughable.
But I don't know if it'll be a great launch, time will tell. Though with Metroid Prime, and Zelda it's going to be great for nintendo fans, a Hawk game, and Madden (perhaps working with the new controller and not the VC controlleR) that's going to be exciting.
Excite Trucks and Dragon quest Swords is interesting.
The only flaw is that there's a LOT of racing games. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing but it will be interesting in the least if the controller is good for that I'm hopeful for a good GT style sim. I'm also hopeful for interesting online multiplayer in Crystal Chronicles.
The only thing I wonder about is COD3, NFS carbon, and Madden are all made by huge companies, Madden should be ready in time, but the other two... I am not sure if they'll make their dates.
Re:Impressive. though a slight flaw. (Score:2)
Well they've already shown how the wiimote can be held sideways and used to steer, and with the rumble and sound capabilities it sure as heck beats out using most console controls as far as racing goes. Of course a real wheel is always better, it'll be interesting to see if anyone makes a wheel that th
Re:Impressive. though a slight flaw. (Score:2)
But yes a wheel with the wiimote that plugs into the center would be "hot" in a way most of us can't imagine
What I'm VERY hopeful about
Re:Impressive. though a slight flaw. (Score:2)
Greatest expansion idea I've seen yet, powerglove 2.0, all you need is a glove with a slot ontop to fit the wiimote, I could make one at home.
Re:Impressive. though a slight flaw. (Score:2)
Re:Impressive. though a slight flaw. (Score:2)
Re:Impressive. though a slight flaw. (Score:3, Informative)
I think I just wet myself (Score:5, Interesting)
All of these resonate as being good, solid starters on the Wii and giving us a reason to buy launch titles. The promise of more games to come seems just vunderbar.
I am curious as to what online features these games are going to introduce on launch, and if we are going to be waiting for the online features like we did for the DS.
Tony Hawk is online (Score:4, Informative)
However, Square Enix officials talked about Crystal Chronicles being online way back when we were still calling it the Revolution. They haven't mentioned it since, so they may have dropped it, but it was *supposed* to be online.
I'd guess Madden, Need For Speed Carbon, and Call of Duty 3 would be online too, as those games are online on other platforms. That's just a guess though, don't quote me on that.
However, there is very little first-party online support from Nintendo. We've got an article on that over at NintendoPlayers...
http://www.nintendoplayers.com/feature.php?featur
(written before Tony Hawk was confirmed to be online, but still just as relevant about first party games)
Re:Tony Hawk is online (Score:2)
Hu? In the past maybe, I'm pretty sure Nintendo has been pushing online heavily with its newest DS games and has talked extensivly about Wii Online.
Re:Tony Hawk is online (Score:2)
Except they haven't announced ONE online first-party launch title. They've talked about online support, but they've only announced ONE online game (Smash Bros Brawl), and that's scheduled for 2007 and according to the developer's blog they haven't even started working on the online features yet. Did you read the article I linked to?
Re:Tony Hawk is online (Score:2)
Re:Tony Hawk is online (Score:2)
Even being able to see what offline achievements [360voice.com] someone has earned it well worth it IMO.
Being "online" is more then just multiplayer.
Re:Tony Hawk is online (Score:2)
Re:I think I just wet myself (Score:2)
DBZ games are bloody awful, unless you're a fan of the series, in which case sometimes they're great.
I recall discovering the Yamucha vs Vegeta hidden fight in Budokai 3 a while back. It was the last time I played it, Budokai Tenkaichi came out a week later.
The fighting mechanism in Budokai 3 is fairly clumsy, and most moves are essentially different graphics on the same few button combinations. As a fighting game, it sucks. But as a Dragonball Z simulatio
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Re:Are those REALLY confirmed? (Score:2)
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Re:Are those REALLY confirmed? (Score:5, Funny)
Only on slashdot is that a) a sentence and b) a sentence that won't get you labeled as a pervert. Though Google's lawyers might take you out back and rough you up a bit...
Re:Are those REALLY confirmed? (Score:2)
Ubisoft announced 7 launch titles just this last week.
http://www.nintendoplayers.com/article.php?articl
Midway also announced 6 titles.
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Re:Are those REALLY confirmed? (Score:2)
I think it's great that Nintendo is planning on having 27 titles (if they do, it will be
Date? (Score:2)
Re:Date? (Score:2)
August 23rd Nintendo will present "Wii fulfil our promises" where it's expected that they will announce a launch date and price.
Re:Date? (Score:2)
Wanna totally screw over Square?
Go for a Halloween release ;)
Seriously, FFXII is probably a bigger release to worry about than the PS3 launch.
Re:Date? (Score:2)
Of course, it's a lot more likely that the Dragon Quest game is a launch game in Japan but not elsewhere - they've had FF12 for ages, and localisation takes time.
In fact, the article doesn't say anything about which territories the games launch in, so before you get excited remember that we can probably expec
How many exclusives? (Score:2)
Looks pretty good (Score:3, Informative)
However I take exception to the PS3 comparison. That launch looks pretty damn good as well. (There are 30 titles confirmed.)
What sticks out for me (personally) in the Wii launch: Far Cry, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Red Steel, Super Monkey Ball, Metroid Prime 3. Thats a great list, and makes the Wii probably worth buying day one.
But... the PS3 list is also quite good: Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy PS3, Possession, Killzone PS3, Tekken PS3, Warhawk, Gran Turismo Vision. Those are all launch titles as well.
This is good news across the board. From what we know currently, both of these launches look to wipe the floor with the Xbox360 launch. (Which is really too bad. I say, the more the merrier.)
Re:Looks pretty good (Score:5, Informative)
MGS4: TBA 2007 [gamespot.com]
FF 13: Unknown [gamespot.com] Hell, FF 12 for PS2 is only coming out on Halloween this year.
Possession: 2007 [gamespot.com]
Killzone: TBA 2007 [ign.com]
Tekken: TBA [gamespot.com], not playable at E3 so I'm betting early 2007 at the earliest.
Warhawk: You finally get one right.
GTV: Q2 2007 [ign.com]
But hey, at least it only costs $600 for a Blu-Ray player, because you're certainly not going to be playing any games on it in the near future.
Re:Looks pretty good (Score:2)
Perhaps. If its all the same to you, I'll take the opinion of someone tagged 'WindWalker' with a pinch of salt. We know you've made up your mind. :)
Re:Looks pretty good (Score:2)
And that ought to end every argument about the long-term importance of launch lists.
Alla same, gimmegimmegimme.
For the utterly lazy (Score:5, Informative)
* Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
* Blitz: The League
* Call of Duty 3
* Cars
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
* Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
* Elebits
* Excite Truck
* Far Cry
* GT Pro Series
* Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Madden NFL 07
* Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
* Metal Slug Anthology
* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
* Monster 4x4 World Circuit
* Need for Speed: Carbon
* Open Season
* Rayman Raving Rabbids
* Red Steel
* SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
* Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
* Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
* Trauma Center: Second Opinion
* Wii Sports
Mmm, CoD 3, Red Steel, Zelda, Metroid Prime 3, Metal Slug. No, that's not a Wiimote in my pocket, I'm just really excited to see this lineup.
Re:For the utterly lazy (Score:2)
Wii Sports
A little thin for the audience that likes sports games, no? Madden will be solid, though.
Re:For the utterly lazy (Score:2)
Actually, it's Wii Sports thats getting all the attention, since you actually play the games like they're sports... unlike the "sports manager" games that tend to dominate sports these days.
Seriously, Nintendo has never had the sports crowd in their pocket, they know that attempting to go after the jock/frat crowd too much is likely to have a negative impact on the rest of their fan base (mostly people who hate that culture), so I think that's entirely reasonable.
Re:For the utterly lazy (Score:2)
Really? Has Nintendo's player base really been all that different that PS or XBox's? N64 had [megalong.com] NFL, MLB, NHL, FIFA, WLS, and boxing titles for many years.
To be sure, there is a video game crowd that is not jocks. However, there is also a video game crowd that loves sports. The notion that to please one of them, the company would have t
Re:For the utterly lazy (Score:3, Insightful)
Avatar, Excite Truck, and Spongebob are fine (Score:4, Funny)
I'm an Avatar and I'm ok
I work in Space and I play all day
I wear Square Pants and dress up nice
My Spore's on straight but my Truck's Excite!
Re:Avatar, Excite Truck, and Spongebob are fine (Score:2)
Better a far-off release than an incomplete game, I guess. *sigh*
Re:Avatar, Excite Truck, and Spongebob are fine (Score:2)
Take a look at this interview [gamespot.com] with Will Wright from a few days ago.
Re:Avatar, Excite Truck, and Spongebob are fine (Score:2)
It's not just a rumor.
Sorry I don't have links, but I do stuff like that at home not here.
Whats really important... (Score:2)
I know I'll be standing in line on the launch date
Re:DS Launch All Over Again (Score:2)
Wow... (Score:2)
From 0 to Slashdotted in 8 comments... (Score:2)
Here, you can see the list of titles at Wikipedia [wikipedia.org].
While we can be sure who will win the console wars for at least a year, it looks like Nintendo may win the Launch Wars. Not only having a massive number of titles available, but having a lot of "Most wanted" Titles (Madden, Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3) will really boost sales. I doubt we'll see a shortchange in console availability (I'm looking at you, Microsoft), but it may sell out in any case.
Now all we need is to wa
Monkey Ball!!! (Score:2)
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FF:CC (Score:3, Interesting)
(It does make me sad of course that Wario Ware won't be making it for launch, but apparently it's coming before Christmas...)
There's one thing about all this that's so odd though it makes me wonder whether or not this list is for real. Is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles really a launch title? That seems almost impossible to believe. How could this game be coming out in just two or three months when we know almost nothing about it?
Re:Should be interesting (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Should be interesting (Score:3, Insightful)
But the games are still priced at the same price as new current-gen games, $50. Launch titles tend to drop in price rapidly. Today even the best Cube launch titles (Metroid Prime!) are $9.99 new, $4.99 used at GameStop.
I'll buy the big titles I want at launch (Zelda, Metroid, maybe Wii Sports so I can force my non-gamer family to play it) and grab everything else when the price dives.
Re:Should be interesting (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Should be interesting (Score:2)
Re:Should be interesting (Score:5, Insightful)
Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata has said before [arstechnica.com] that he feels the game market is much healthier if games are given an appropriate initial priced based on various development criteria and costs, and then not discounted at all for several years.
While the downside to this philosophy is that you do fork over a lot of money for the AAA titles, the benefit is that you also don't have to risk much on low-budget gems. We've also seen this philosophy being played out in the DS market. There, the AAA titles generally run $30-35, while "cheaply produced" titles such as Brain Age and Big Brain Academy hit the shelves at only $20.
Re:So the onyl thing that will stop Nintendo now.. (Score:2)
then again, they must be doing something right with that lack of horsepower you claim, because a number of games looked far better than the xbox/ps2 counterpart.
Re:the problem is cross platform games (Score:2)
Now, if your complaint had to do
Re:So the onyl thing that will stop Nintendo now.. (Score:2)
But it has more power than any other console in history apart from those two. I think it'll do just fine. Sure, there will be some game experiences available on the PS360 that just won't be possible on the Wii due to its comparatively lesser computing muscle, but because of the controller possibilities the inverse is also true.
Re:So the onyl thing that will stop Nintendo now.. (Score:2)
Really, the horsepower will only be a hindrence for the biggest budget titles (Final Fantasy, etc.), as it costs so much to produce those great graphics. Also, remember that HD takes a good magnitude of additional horsepower, so the probability is that the poly-count will be about equal on SD/ED between Wii and 360/PS3 games. Basically, the only really noticable difference in graphics between the Wii and the 360/PS3 will be the lack of HD. A few may point to this as an achillies heal, but HD is still a luxu
Re:So the onyl thing that will stop Nintendo now.. (Score:4, Insightful)
I really think they're right in that assumption, and I'll even take it farther: The average consumer isn't even going to be able to tell the difference. Hell, I myself can't really see any improvement in 360 or PS3 stuff over the best-looking Gamecube games (RE4).
Re:So the onyl thing that will stop Nintendo now.. (Score:2)
Let's ask that the other way around (Score:3, Insightful)
I hope Nintendo are right in their apparent assumption that these days consoles have enough power, and the typical consumer doesn't care about running at ultra high resolutions.
Similarly, one might ask the question: have MS and Sony been right in their assumption, made years in advance, that the HDTV market would be mature by now? The market for their products is considerably narrower, limited as it is to those who already own or would own HD sets -- and their products themselves are perceived as much mo
Re:So the onyl thing that will stop Nintendo now.. (Score:2)
Re:So the onyl thing that will stop Nintendo now.. (Score:3, Informative)
Totally not true. Yes, it is an upscaled GC in essence, but the GC was very good (see Resident Evil 4) and lacked in a few specific departments: it had not enough RAM and the CPU wasn't fast enough to fully feed the GPU. This has been been corrected.
The GC [wikipedia.org] has 24 MB RAM. Nothing is known about the amount in the Wii, but given current RAM prices it is safe to assume a lot more. Heck, even the very low "specs" that were allegedly leaked recently (ars thinks they are fak
Re:So the onyl thing that will stop Nintendo now.. (Score:2)
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Re:Ubisoft (Score:4, Informative)
What some industry insiders must have figured out is that it simply makes sense to support the Wii; and I don't mean this in a "Nintendo Rules!" fanboy sort of way.
The reality of Next-Generation game development is clear, if you make a moderately graphically impressive XBox 360 or PS3 game you will be spending (at least) twice as much as your most expensive XBox or PS2 game; at the same time you will not suddenly start to sell twice as many copies of your game for switching to the new platform. Even if you charge more for your games you will not (necessarily) increase your revinues because people will be far more reluctant to purchase a $70 game as compared to a $50 game. What this means is your costs will increase, your revinues will remain about the same, so your margins will get tighter; or you may even start losing money.
Now consider the Wii, the system is designed to be much more powerful than previous generation systems while still maintaining the general (technical) graphical style of the previous generation; essentially, it's goal is to eliminate the problems with the previous generation rather than to start a new generation. The result of Nintendo's design is that the cost of development has not increased at nearly the scale of either the XBox 360 or PS3. The Wii may also (through its unique input device) bring in new gamers which (potentially) could increase sales. If the Wii delivers on it's potential, development costs stay the same while revinues increase meaning your margins are fatter and you become more profitable.
The buisness case for supporting the Wii is sound.
I (personally) suspect why certain developers are not supporting the Wii more heavily now is that the company makes it's decisions from a marketing standpoint. Marketing people are more likely to say "our game is mature so it should be on the most mature system", buisness analysts will choose the system with the largest userbase or best margins, and designers will choose the system with the greatest technical advantage or the system with the unique features that enable them to create their vision.
Re:Solid start, but not impressive (Score:2)
Just because it's part of an old series doesn't mean it has the same gameplay mechanics.
Re:Solid start, but not impressive (Score:2)
Very true, however all those Wii games seem to actualy feature almost the exact same gameplay mechanics like their predecesor. With Mario64 it was a gigantic jump, a jump from 2D to 3D, completly new game mechanics, new controls, everything complete new, only the setting was familiar, same with the jump from Zelda3 to OoT, or Super Metroid to Metroid Prime. The Wii-Zelda on the other side looks just like OoT with more
Re:Solid start, but not impressive (Score:2)
You're not going to get another revolutionary jump like the one 2D -> 3D graphics gave us, not anytime soon, anyway. Plus, I'm going to argue that revolutionary jumps don't provide, in the long term, the biggest fun factor. This is an era of polishing, taking revolutionary games that had promise, and making them even better. Nintendo is offering something about halfway in between, this go-around. The GameCube was a TOTAL polishing system. There was really nothing substantial that the gamecube could do th
Re:Solid start, but not impressive (Score:2)
Agreed!
Re:Solid start, but not impressive (Score:2)
As opposed to the games people are looking forward to on the other consoles, such as Metal Gear Solid 4, Final Fantasy 12, Halo 3, God of War 2, Gran Turismo Whatever, etc?
Is your conclusion that people would rather play the same old games with a large graphics im
MOD PARENT UP (Score:2)
Re:To be Online or Not, That is the Release Questi (Score:2)
Re:To be Online or Not, That is the Release Questi (Score:2)
I'm really hoping the games are not locked down to the machine and that it will be possibly to take my SD card to a friends house and play games there.