2007 Wii first party line-up officially announced

Wii News | All the big guns this year - at least in Japan.

More and more info is coming from translations of the Nintendo press conference held a few days ago, where Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced that the company has 45 Wii games in the pipeline. And now, some officially released financial documents, translated by IGN, have revealed the 2007 Japanese release plans for the company. While many games are still listed as TBA (such as Animal Crossing Wii), Nintendo seems confident enough to at least stick a year next to the following games, which have now been officially dated 2007:

Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race (Paon) - June 28, 2007
Wii Health Pack (EAD) - 2007
Disaster: Day of Crisis ( Monolith) - 2007
Mario Party 8 (Hudson Soft) - 2007
Project H.A.M.M.E.R. (NST) - 2007
Wii Music (EAD) - 2007
Super Mario Galaxy (EAD) - 2007
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Smash Recruit) - 2007
Battalion Wars II (Kuju) - 2007
Forever Blue (Akira) - 2007
Mario Strikers Charged (Next Level) - 2007
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Retro Studios) - 2007
Mario and Sonic at the Olympics (SEGA) - 2007

So it seems the big three (Mario, Metroid, Smash Bros.) are still on track for a release this year, at least in Japan. We'll have to wait for confirmation for PAL releases, but it seems likely the larger games at least will be ready in time for Christmas.

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22 Comments

Bitchacho

5 years ago

I'm interested in Wii Music. It better not be something like those lame MTV Music Mix games on Ps2. Also where's the Harvest Moon Wii love? Isn't that out next month in Japan?

DancesInUnderwear

5 years ago

If by the end of the year I can be playing at all 4 of Brawl, Galaxy, Prime 3 and Paper Mario all of the huge delays and all of this 'buyer's Wiimorse' stuff will disappear completely.

They all better be 2007 PAL titles Nintendo, or I will flip.

Jin66

5 years ago

Thats a huge lineup.....if this is the lineup for end of 2007 I'd love to see whats in line for 2008. Id be happy if 1/3 of those titles hit PAL regions by end of the year, not to mention super paper mario

Tom101007

5 years ago

this is the first news of project hammer ive heard since it was on the wii website before launch

Qbert

5 years ago

^ Same with Day of Disaster. I'm interested to see how they turn out. Quite an impressive lineup, let's hope their PAL conversion isn't as gimped as that of Super Paper Mario.

Cerebral

5 years ago

What's the deal about the Super Paper Mario PAL conversion?

ObsoletE

5 years ago

"Mario and Sonic at the Olympics"
is this the first time the 2 mascots have gone directly head-to-head?

that's quite a momentous occasion if so.

if not, let me know which game i missed.

David

5 years ago

ObsoletE wrote

"Mario and Sonic at the Olympics"
is this the first time the 2 mascots have gone directly head-to-head?

Yep:

http://palgn.com.au/article.php?id=7130

I'm buying it just for the history. Hopefully later they can make a Mario and Sonic game with a better premise.

ObsoletE

5 years ago

wow, missed that article.

thanks

Jaws

5 years ago

Wii Health Pack sounds interesting. Hopefully it will add something different to what we've seen with Wii Sports and Wii Play.

renegadesx

5 years ago

Tom101007 wrote

this is the first news of project hammer ive heard since it was on the wii website before launch

That didnt really tell you anything new from E3, I am indeed very excited that Disaster and H.A.M.M.E.R are making it this year

I expected the others this year but not those two

This is going to be a very expensive year

littlemo

5 years ago

Still can't decide if I should keep my Wii, this line-up looks good but I'm so sceptical. Three major titles to be released within 6 months? This was promised and never happened on GC but are they really gonna do it this time?

Marka

5 years ago

Cerebral wrote

What's the deal about the Super Paper Mario PAL conversion?

Thats what I'd like to know. I still havent played that otehr 2 paper mario games. I cant find TTYD anywere but the N64 one should end on theVC some time. But at least we have a chance at the other big threed by christmans... I hope.

renegadesx

5 years ago

Marka wrote

Cerebral wrote

What's the deal about the Super Paper Mario PAL conversion?

Wheres VOOK when you need him

Marka

5 years ago

renegadesx wrote

Marka wrote

Cerebral wrote

What's the deal about the Super Paper Mario PAL conversion?

Wheres VOOK when you need him

Huh?

Marlor

5 years ago

Mitchacho wrote

Also where's the Harvest Moon Wii love? Isn't that out next month in Japan?

These are just the first party games. If you add in third party titles, the list would be much longer.

realitybites

5 years ago

littlemo wrote

Nintendo have never been reliable on release dates especially in PAL territories. Japan and America for sure its their biggest markets.

If you have owned a Nintendo console before than you SHOULD have known this was going to happen. Alternatively import a Wii and don't get frustrated.

If anyone believes on this forum that Nintendo will release any of the biggies in 2007 in Australia than put your hand up because when 1 Jan kicks over I can refer back to this thread.

renegadesx

5 years ago

Marka wrote

renegadesx wrote

Marka wrote

Cerebral wrote

What's the deal about the Super Paper Mario PAL conversion?

Wheres VOOK when you need him

Huh?

He's usually in the know when it comes to Nintendo releases etc.

drinniol

5 years ago

realitybites wrote

littlemo wrote

They haven't been too bad on the Wii. I'm ambivalent about whether or not they'll meet it.

Crestfallen

5 years ago

^ Dude, Super Paper Mario is the prime example that nothing has changed. It doesn't even have a release date afaik.

DancesInUnderwear

5 years ago

I can't decide whether to defend Nintendo Australia or not. I do think they cop a lot of flack that is unwarranted (most 1st party releases have come out fairly close to the US release dates in the past few years, and the DS games are almost always out here before Europe), but then they go and pull something incredibly stupid like, oh, I dunno, not even giving a release date for the Wii's second major title.

renegadesx

5 years ago

DancesInUnderwear wrote

I never really defend Nintendo Australia unless its the fault of higher up.

NoJ always are sometimes vauge on details and stuff, but they had no problems pushing Twilight Princess back as they never really gave a release date in the first place.

Nintendo don't seem to be deadline orientated which I think is a good thing but some rough estimates etc could be nice.

But a title that is out in NTSC reigions already, they should at least tell us when we are going to get it

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