Final List Of Wii Launch Titles Released
Nintendo released the full list of launch titles for the Wii, and boy are there a lot of the suckers: 32, in fact (that’s two more games than the PS3 launch list). However, a lot of these titles seem to be licensed games based on TV shows and movies: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Red Steel? Oh hell yes. The Ant Bully and Barnyard? A little harder to care about.
Exactly which games are going to be available on November 19 and which ones will hit shelves before the end of the calendar year isn’t something which has been specified yet.
See the list after the jump
Nintendo released the full list of launch titles for the Wii, and boy are there a lot of the suckers: 32, in fact (that’s two more games than the PS3 launch list). However, a lot of these titles seem to be licensed games based on TV shows and movies: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Red Steel? Oh hell yes. The Ant Bully and Barnyard? A little harder to care about.
Exactly which games are going to be available on November 19 and which ones will hit shelves before the end of the calendar year isn’t something which has been specified yet.
Here’s the full list of Wii launch titles, in alphabetical order by publisher:
Activision:
• Call of Duty 3
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance
• Rapala Tournament Fishing
• Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam
• World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions
Atari:
• Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi™ 2
Atlus:
• Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Electronic Arts:
• Madden NFL ‘07
• Need for Speed Carbon
Konami:
• Elebits
Midway:
• Happy Feet
• Rampage: Total Destruction
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
• The Ant Bully
Nintendo:
• Excite Truck
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Wii Sports (pack-in title)
Sega:
• Sega Studios’ Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
SNK:
• SNK/Terminal Reality’s Metal Slug Anthology
Tecmo:
• Super Swing Golf
THQ:
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Barnyard®
• Cars
• SpongeBob SquarePants: The Creature from the Krusty Krab
Ubisoft:
• Far Cry: Vengeance
• GT Pro Series
• Monster 4X4 World Circuit
• Open Season
• Rayman Raving Rabbids
• Red Steel
• Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent
Vivendi:
• Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
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Posted to Video Games on 1 November 2006
· Comments (7)
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The only launch title I’m interested would be Zelda, but I’d rather have that for the GC anyway.
Might get Zelda, Monkey Ball and Trauma Center first – possibly I will also support the European developers and get Rayman and Red Steel – Sounds like a great start-lineup to me.
There are alot of games there, but most of the list is pure fluff that no one will want. Red Steel, Zelda, and a couple of others are the only things people are going to bother with. Children may pick up the license games. But this skewed demographic is exactly why I jumped ship to playstation when elementary school was over :-).
there’s quite an amount of older nintendo fans (suppose the oldest gamers rather go for nintendo than sony)
further there’s not that many license games on the list really, and except the THQ and vivendi-titles, the lineup sounds quite reasonable to me (and i left elementary school almost 15 years ago)
sorry for this post, just wanted to comment bobeotm’s “i’m too adult to play nintendo anymore” comment – whose ideas could sony steal if there would be no nintendo?
I just choose to ignore the licensed crap (which, frankly, shows up on every console, not just Nintendo). I do wish though that developers would realize that not everyone who plays Nintendo consoles sits around watching the Nick Toons network. I’m looking at YOU, THQ!
Zelda, Monkey Ball, Trauma Center, Excite Truck, Red Steel… that’s what I want.
I know there’s a market for sports and racing games (as dificult as I find that to understand), but do these fishing games really sell that much that they keep making them?
Wow, I knew THQ and Vivendi made some crap games, but I didn’t know Midway had fallen prey to license-itis. How the mighty have fallen from the days of the Bally Astrocade.
I’ll get a PS3 when it’s cheap, like I did with the PS2, but I’ll be getting two Wiis on launch day, one as a gift. I find that most of the people who claim they’re too grown-up for Nintendo and need more “mature” games are people who could be my kids. Not all of them (my brother’s 42 and the only video games he likes to play are poorly lit military sims on the PC), but most.