North American WiiWare, Wii Fit Dates Announced

February 20, 2008 6:36 AM

In a press release noting its Game Developers Conference presence, Nintendo has announced that the first U.S. WiiWare games will start showing up May 12. According to Nintendo, early WiiWare -- just like Virtual Console games, available through the Wii 's built-in Shop Channel -- titles will include games from Square Enix, Frontier Developments and Telltale Games.

Meanwhile the exercise product Wii Fit, which has sold over 1.4 million copies in Japan since its December 1, 2007 launch, will reach U.S. shores May 19.

Maarten Goldstein

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rosewood

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February 20, 2008 6:39 AM

I really hope the Wii Ware games are strong and help that take off. X360's VC had some very strong titles like Geometry wars that helped make it very popular.
- grabbie
  
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  February 20, 2008 6:47 AM
  
  the Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles should help that out, at least in Japan
- OmegaRed59
  
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  February 20, 2008 10:40 AM
  
  Yeah, I really do want to be able to download some awesome new games for my Wii. Old games are great and all but overpriced and, well, old.