Nintendo Dates Animal Crossing Wii, Kirby Wii, and Wii Music for Japan '08

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Wii Music, Animal Crossing, Kirby hit Japan in '08
Nintendo confirms new launch windows on long-awaited, little heard from Wii and DS titles.
By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
Posted Jan 29, 2008 5:38 pm PT

In September of 2006, two months and change before the Wii launched in Japan, Nintendo released a list of upcoming games for the system, among them Wii Music and new installments of Animal Crossing and Kirby. The first of that group was given a 2007 release window, with dates for the latter two simply listed as TBA.

In Nintendo's latest supplement to its quarterly earnings report, the publisher updated those release windows, giving all three games expected Japanese launches sometime in 2008, and a "(Temp.)" designation next to their titles. A number of DS games received the same Japanese launch window and designation, including the superlatively named Hoshi no Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe, Fire Emblem, and Eternal Chronicle. Nintendo showed more certainly in the dates and titles for the Japanese Wii releases of Super Mario Stadium Family Baseball and Disaster: Day of Crisis, both of which were slated to launch by the end of the year.

As for American release dates, Nintendo pegged a May 5 launch for its DS Crosswords game, with the Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness flavors of its next DS Pokemon Mystery Dungeon game set for the second quarter. On the living room side of its business, Nintendo confirmed a second quarter release for Wii Fit in the US, as well as a tentative 2008 launch in Europe.

Well, we at least know what the rest of the Wii's lineup for the year should be. Though all three of them are sort of on the Good, but not Great scale for Mr. Wonderful. Wii Music and Kirby Wii could be really good though. Animal Crossing Wii would only be so if it's truly getting that major overhaul that we've been hearing about.

Other news, which is pretty relevant to this topic, is that earlier this week Nintendo announced that they're reallocating their development teams to work on the Wii, and less on the DS. Honestly, I think that's a pretty good thing, seeing as the Wii could really use more games. Plus the DS at this point has enough third parties to pick up the slack. Though the DS games in this article from Nintendo don't exactly sound like award winners to me.

Kirby Wii

=D

Wii Music could be cool, as long as it was something beyond the simple tech demo that we've already seen of the game. I don't know how it would be much more, but something between the amount of content in Wii Sports and Wii Fit would be fantastic.

i cant wait for E3 this year. its gonna be great. im expecting all of these games to have trailers. i hope that AC3 will be an MMO type thing. with VOICE CHAT.

Originally Posted by Zora Fisherman

i cant wait for E3 this year. its gonna be great. im expecting all of these games to have trailers. i hope that AC3 will be an MMO type thing. with VOICE CHAT.

I'm stoked too ^^

Wii Music... this should be interesting.

And I wonder what Kirby will be like... those have always been interesting. Another side scroller, or something new like Kirby's Air Ride.

Wii Kirby has been in the works for years now, I believe. It was originally a project for Gamecube that was in Development Hell.

Originally Posted by Adventurer

And I wonder what Kirby will be like... those have always been interesting. Another side scroller, or something new like Kirby's Air Ride.

im pretty sure its this. it was supposed to be released ages ago but it droped from the radar and i dont think anybody knows what happened to it.

EDIT: dang it blizzaga.

They need to make a StarFox Wii, I'm telling you.

Originally Posted by Sailboat

They need to make a StarFox Wii, I'm telling you.

There's no doubt in my mind that they will. It might be in development even now! ^_^

Originally Posted by Zora Fisherman

EDIT: dang it blizzaga.

KIRBY WII CONFIRMED?!? Is this super official?

Originally Posted by Zora Fisherman

im pretty sure its this. it was supposed to be released ages ago but it droped from the radar and i dont think anybody knows what happened to it.

EDIT: dang it blizzaga.

Oo, makes sense. If so, looks pretty super cool !

Originally Posted by Asci

KIRBY WII CONFIRMED?!? Is this super official?

It's official. Straight out of Japan.

Kirby Wii could be awesome as well. As long as it doesn't turn out to be as simple as the N64 game.

Originally Posted by Sailboat

They need to make a StarFox Wii, I'm telling you.

Miyamoto said he was interested in doing this, using the same controls as in the WarioWare: Smooth Moves StarFox microgame.

As for Kirby Wii, I'm superstoked to hear that this is back in business. For a while there it looked like nothing was going to come of it.

If this is the same as that cancelled Kirby game, then this has to be the best news of an announced game since Brawl...

I think that after SSBB was released, Nintendo realized "****, we've got nothing else announced!", and so they came up with this press release. I wonder how much Nintendo is going to push back THESE dates.