Every Infendo fan knows Nintendo makes great games. No doubt you have The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, and Wii Sports on your launch game wish list. You await eagerly for Super Mario Galaxy and Animal Crossing. However, if you don’t have at least a few third party games planned for your Wii, you need a wake up call. This is it.
Truth be told, while Link and Samus have a great reputation, many third party games are rivalling, and dare I say beating, Nintendo’s currently revealed games in terms of originality and quality potential. The focus on Wii is all about creativity, gameplay, and fun. While Nintendo is pumping out sequels to their existing franchises, Konami is hard at work making Elebits. If you can envision a completely interactive environment that can be moved and tossed around to search for multitudes of little creatures, then you can understand why this is a game many gamers are anxiously awaiting. While Trauma Center: Second Opinion is an enhanced version of the DS game, be honest: you can’t find Trauma Center for the DS anywhere. Do yourself a favor and buy it for Wii. Performing surgeries and being rated on the quality of the job sounds like a lot of fun. Also keep an eye out for Red Steel, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, Need For Speed Carbon, Disaster: Day Of Crisis (developed by Monolith Soft), and Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam.
Clearly, if you are ignoring third party titles, you are missing out. Rayman Raving Rabbids is the game I am anxiously anticipating the most. It looks hilarious, promises to make great use of the Wii remote, and I trust it to have the same quality as past Rayman games, if not more. If we buy third party games, more support will come. Imagine the thrills of receiving major Square Enix support because of strong sales from Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Dragon Quest Swords! The Wii’s third party support is the most on a Nintendo console since the Super Nintendo. After all, they will have at least twenty games ready for launch! It should be apparent to every gamer that this support forms the backbone of the Wii. If developers are excited about gameplay potential, great games will come. I look forward to playing those great games.
Awsome Aritcle I agree 100%
My Wii launch game list was just first party games. Now that they're going to have Trauma Center, it's on the list. And after reading the article about Rayman in the latest Nintendo Power, I'm definitely going to be playing that one, too.I feel like we're going to see a similar trend on Wii as we did with the DS in that 3rd parties didn't have the earliest knowledge of the Wii hardware's capabilities. By spring break of 2007, I expect there to be a ton of amazing 3rd party games sitting next to my Wii.
I dont' have a beef with Nintendo, but I'm more interested in the third party games at launch. I'll be getting Metroid and Wii Sports, but I'm really stoked about Red Steel, Project H.A.M.M.E.R., and Elebits. I already have Trauma Center for the DS, so I most likely won't be getting it for the Wii, but it's still an awesome idea.
2 of the 3 or 4 games I'll be buying at launch will be 3rd party games. Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Rayman or Red Steel. I WILL be supporting our 3rd parties this go round. Zelda will likely be my only Big N purchase at launch, as long as SMG doesn't hit launch.
I can't wait for a new one from Sudo 51 (Killer 7). I'll also be picking up some sort of racing game and anything else from third parties that go out on the edge. I'm realy looking forward to innovation this time around. The great thing about the Wii is that everyone already knows how to program for it, there are game engines already made, and it leaves alot of time to be creative with control, gameplay, etc intead of messing about with the normal stuff.
The ONLY 1st party games that I will buy, so far, are WiiSports and Warioware: Smooth Moves.I'll also get Madden and Trauma Center:SO for sure. If I have enough money I'll get the new SuperMonkey Ball and Rayman:RR.It all depends on the price of the system and controllers, tho.I would be content with just WiiSports and four controllers to begin with.I'll also allot some money for at least one or two ORIGINAL new titles sold the VC.Might seem strange but 1st party software didn't dominate my GC collection either.
I'm going to support Ubisoft to the fullest.Here's the list of games I'm getting at launch… Maybe more will be added, we still don't know all the titles that will be available at launch.For sure:- Wii Sports- Zelda TP- Metroïd Prime 3- Red Steel- Rayman RR- Super Monkey BallMaybe (waiting for critics):- Call of Duty 3- Far Cry- Rampage- Elebits- WariowareLooking forward to get:- Super MArio Galaxy- Sadness- Project H.A.M.M.E.R.- Disaster: Day of CRisis- Trauma Center- Resident Evil- Final Fantasy CC- Spore
Oh man, I completely forgot about Madden. Not that EA needs supporting, but it's probably the 1st Madden in a decade that actually has something remarkably new about it. I can't wait for that one… I'll likely be able to drop 600 dollars on launch day. That's probably the system, an extra controller, and if I'm lucky 3 games… man oh man, it's gonna be tough deciding what to get aside from Zelda.
Super Mario Galaxy and Rayman RR were always at the top of my list, actually…For me, Rayman 2 for Dreamcast has been one of the best platformers of all time, and Super Mario Sunshine has been the best Super Mario of all so far. I hated Rayman 3, though, but Rayman 2 was so good I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to Rayman RR.I will also have to get a good multi-player game, and SuperMonkey Ball looks like it will fit the bill!
The Wii System, an extra controller and 3 games should most likely be under $500I'll be picking up Zelda, Wii sports if it's $20ish and Red Steel.
The Wii may be the only system that will offer some worthwhile bundles. If Nintendo is smart(er), they would release the base system with two controllers and Wii sports. That should be the less than 250 promise. If so, than 3 games with it would be 150 extra, so you could theoretically get all that for the price of a Premium 360.If the recent mac spoof of PS3 Vs Wii said anything profound, it was "I'm cheap … and fun!"Welcome to the next generation of gaming.
cant forget FIRE EMBLEMor is that not comeing out when the wii does?