Nintendo Announces Games

May 9, 2006 11:29 AM

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We'll have fuller coverage of Nintendo's press conference including HD video, but for now here are the titles for Wii that were showcased during the presentation. Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime promised 27 playable games on the E3 show floor starting tomorrow, as well as more on display in video form. A total of 18 were presented either in video or gameplay form at the conference.

Several first party games were announced or officially unveiled:

- Disaster: Day of Crisis
- Excite Truck
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (available in Wii and GameCube versions)
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Project H.A.M.M.E.R.
- Super Mario Galaxy (temporary name)
- WarioWare: Smooth Moves
- Wii Sports

A selection of third party games was also highlighted:

- Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam (Activision)
- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Activision)
- Call of Duty 3 (Activision
- Sonic (working title) (Sega)
- Super Monkey Ball (Sega)
- Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors (Square Enix)
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers (codename) (Square Enix)
- Madden NFL (Electronic Arts)
- Rayman Raving Rabbids (Ubisoft)
- Red Steel (Ubisoft)

The company also unveiled its optional retro controller, which looks very much like an SNES gamepad with four face buttons, two shoulder buttons, and a d-pad. However, it also has two analog sticks, both of which look like the left GameCube analog stick. They are positioned in a similar fashioned to the analog sticks on Sony's DualShock controller.

Chris Remo

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May 9, 2006 11:30 AM

I love Nintendo!
- dtandmm
  
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  May 9, 2006 11:32 AM
  
  This is the system to get.
- Edges
  
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  May 9, 2006 4:21 PM
  
  Excite Truck is extremely meh. Please make nes library games at most $2.
  - walker270
    
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    May 9, 2006 4:23 PM
    
    I'm hoping for a subscription service, myself. Something like $14/month unlimited access.
    - Edges
      
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      May 9, 2006 4:28 PM
      
      I hope they go that way as well. Even though sega came up with that with Genesis. It kinda bombed. I remember subscribing thru local tv network and downloading games, etc.. all you can play for $20. No one used it.
      - DinK
        
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        May 9, 2006 4:48 PM
        
        I had a buddy with the Sega Channel or whatever it was called. It was pretty damn cool. You had to wait for the game to download to the unit, but then it was essentially stored there until you replaced it.