Animal Crossing, Kirby on Wii in 2008

Wii News | For Japan, at least.

As if to demonstrate to speculative media outlets what substantiated information actually looks like, Nintendo of Japan has released its financial documents, which detail a few of the upcoming first-party Wii games in the works for Wii, Shacknews reports.

Immediately noticeable to the Nintendo fanboy in us all are listings for both a new, as yet unnamed Kirby game, along with the long-rumoured Wii iteration of everybody's favourite Tom Nook loathing simulation, Animal Crossing. Both are set for a 2008 release in the land of the rising sun.

As the financial documents go on, joining these titles for a 2008 Japanese release are the already revealed likes of the long-lost Disaster: Day of Crisis, and Super Mario Stadium Family Baseball (announced last October as Super Mario Stadium Baseball for Western territories), along with a Wii version of the Nintendo DS's Japan-centric Common Knowledge Training Touch Generations! game, in the form of Minna no Joushikiryoku Terebi (which roughly translates to Everyone's Common Knowledge Television).

Other than reaffirming the 'worldwide' Q2 release of Mario Kart Wii, it must be reiterated that the financial documents reveal nothing of Western release dates for any of the titles listed. More importantly than that however, let's also be hopeful that Nintendo is keeping its metaphorical cards close to its chest, away from the formalities of financial documents, and has more than this handful of unreleased in-house titles in the works for 2008.

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12 Comments

Marlor

2 years ago

Minna no Joushikiryoku Terebi just sounds like a Wii version of Otona no Joshikiryoku Training DS.

I'd expect it to be a full Wii game, rather than a downloadable channel.

Sunrider

2 years ago

Maybe Minna no whatever could be Nintendo's answer to Buzz?

DancesInUnderwear

2 years ago

I wonder if that Kirby game is the one that was announced for GC ages ago using the SSBM engine.... maybe it uses the Brawl one now?

Joseph

2 years ago

Hmm, that TV knowledge thing sounds like Hot Seat Trivia on the Foxtel games channel. Perhaps Wii owners will get a set of trivia questions each week, and it will go towards a score like on the voting channel. BTW, I'm apparently 8.6m away from popular opinion.

LeonJ

2 years ago

Animal Crossing could be the biggest thing of the year. If Nintendo make a MMO out of this it could become the next WoW as people just seem to love this game.

Although I don't see how they could make a MMO (adding content and updates) without annoucing some form of storage means. Nintendo really really really need to annouce a cheap 4 gig external HDD or some form of SD intergame workings.

?oe?oe

2 years ago

The absence of Pikmin hurts me.

Chris-Leigh

2 years ago

The absence of Pilotwings similarly hurts me.

But Animal Crossing yay, etc. I have to put the DS one down first, though.

Wonder if it'll link with the Wii version.

Dare

2 years ago

^ wouldn't think so, but you never know

Apart from the other great titles from Ninty Wii this year, AC will have to be fantastic to keep up (although i don't doubt how awesome it could be)

Daniel Primed

2 years ago

Awesome, Nintendo need to bring out their second wave of games so its good to see some form showing. I still think that they need some new IPs and to buy out some smaller 3rd parties to solidify the Wii's software line up.

ppjim3

2 years ago

Animal Crossing MMO now featuring unlimited items, massive cities, millions of players... that is, as long as you have all of their friend codes entered.

Ugh.

LeonJ

2 years ago

ppjim3 wrote

Animal Crossing MMO now featuring unlimited items, massive cities, millions of players... that is, as long as you have all of their friend codes entered.

Ugh.

I'd hope they would have a main common area where people can interact, trade, auction and collect items and you would be able to build back in your own town. Friend's code then being used to allow people to visit you.

I would imagine it would be a 'strict' level of interaction with 'random' players, unless you have their friend's code.

I do like Nintendo's idea of having world wide 'gaming' interactions without any 'real' interaction. I think it can work and Animal Crossing hopefully will show that.

ppjim3

2 years ago

If anything the restricted 'all members' area would be like the Pokemon trading center - no 'real' communication. Just the ability to trade items, buy things, etc. There will be no central hub to hang out and talk.

Even with these restriction it *could* be awesome. Imagine if they allow a group of 'friends' (all have each others FCs) to build a single city where they all live - all the time. So they just share one city where each could invite other friends back to their city to hang out.

That would be brilliant - but probably not 'Nintendosafe' enough so we'll each be stuck with our own town and I'll be banned from all my friends towns because I can't help myself from pulling out their flowers.