U.S. WiiWare not on the same monthly release schedule as Japan

Posted Apr 24th 2008 12:45PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, WiiWare

When WiiWare launched in Japan on March 25th, the service offered nine new games. Then, no new releases at all (except, of course, for My Life as a King and Lonpos DLC) until almost a month later, when Minna de Puzzloop showed up.

According to a Wired discussion with Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America is going to take more of a Virtual Console-like approach, in which everyone complains that each week's new game isn't Earthbound two or three games come out every week. That means that all the games that were previously announced for launch, like Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Pop, and Major League Eating will be spread out across the first month or so.

Tags: launch, major-league-eating, pop, reggie, strong-bad

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

4-24-2008 @ 12:57PM

josh said...

stupid but works

4-24-2008 @ 1:01PM

Paul S. said...

But SBCG4AP was never intended to be a launch WiiWare title...
Strong Bad even says in the trailer that the game is coming in "June of 2008."

4-24-2008 @ 1:18PM

Tristan said...

What? But i really wanted my Pokemon Ranch...

4-24-2008 @ 3:03PM

Rocketboy said...

Great, now I'm starving. Anyone have any salad and ranch dressing back there?

4-24-2008 @ 3:26PM

Peter S said...

I thought that the pasttime was complaining about River City Ransom for the VC? Is Earthbound the new River City Ransom? ;-) (No argument that it's a cool game, but still....)

For me, I'd love to see Nintendo really open up their catalog of older games. I just don't get the trickle that they're doing now. They'd get a whole bunch more sales if their catalog were pretty much wide open and they'd invalidate most excuses people use now for Emulators.

4-24-2008 @ 3:34PM

Atlantis1982 said...

I always thought everyone complains that its not SMRPG, Majora's Mask, and Earthbound as well. (rolleyes)

4-24-2008 @ 5:26PM

Brento said...

I'm waiting for Pilot Wings-and i dont care if it's the SNES or 64!

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