Gamefront.de is reporting
that Nintendo's Senior Vice President of Marketing and Elaborate Pie Charts, George Harrison, has stated (via an
upcoming issue of
Game Informer) that the Revolution will launch later this year with 20 games, a third of
which will be Nintendo first-party titles. While that doesn't seem like an unlikely number, there are several reasons
to be cautious about this somewhat vacuous information.
Nintendo, much like Microsoft, has made a
distinction in the past between launch
day and launch
window, a sneaky marketing move which often
renders gamers unsure as to whether or not a game will be available on the day of the console launch or within the
first few weeks of the new machine hitting stores. The difference between getting 20 games on launch day and getting 20
within the launch window (however long that is) is a fairly large one.
The other point of interest revolves
around the Virtual Console. If one considers a selection of Nintendo classics to be launch games (and why shouldn't you
when the Xbox 360 launched with a bunch of current-gen ports?), surely the launch tally would be much, much higher than
20. A likely explanation is that Harrison was only referring to brand new Revolution titles (
excluding Twilight
Princess, of course), in which case 20 is more than enough to make us forget the Gamecube's meager launch
selection.
And no,
Luigi's Mansion 2: Even More Sucking has not been confirmed as a Revolution
launch title.
[Via
GamersReports]
There's a list of Wii launch games traveling through the myriad computers, routers, cables and robotic gnomes that comprise the Internet, though it mostly amounts to a bunch of good guesses as opposed to official confirmations. No doubt obtained from retailers and not publishers, the list suggests that the following games will be available when Nintendo unleashes their Wii:
