Nintendo had lots of news for us at the Tokyo Game Show recently. First of all, as promised, an old franchise came back: Punch Out!
Other games announced where Pikmin, Another Code, Sin & Punishment 2 and Dynasty Warriors.
In other news from Nintendo they have finnally addressed the memory problem of the Wii and have announced that as of January 2009 (worldwide?) the Wii will get the capability to save downloaded content to SD memory cards! I hope when they say “save” they also mean use it from the SD cards directly without having to do some “shuffling” of the data every time you want to play a game from a SD card.
The last piece of “big” (but anticipated) news was the new DSi which will feature two cameras and be 12% thinner than the old DS lite but at the same time having a 17% larger display! To bad I recently bought a DS lite eh? As with the Wii the DSi will get an on-line shop where additionall content can be bought.
I will be standing in line for Punch Out!
EDIT:
I found a nice complete list of games announced for Wii that I also include here:
2008
Wii Music (Nintendo) – 16th October
Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) – 20th November
The Melancholy of Haruhi (Kadokawa Shoten) – 27th November
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes (Capcom) – 11th December
428 (Sega) – 4th December
Samba de Amigo (Sega) – 11th December
Let’s Tap (Sega) – December
Cooking Mama 2 (Taito) – 4th December
Rygar: Muscle Impact (Tecmo) – December
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (Activision) – 16th October
Karaoke Joysound Wii (Hudson) – 18th December
Sky Crawlers (Bandai-Namco) – 16th October
Happy Dance Collection (Bandai-Namco) – 23rd October
Family Ski: World Ski & Snowboard (Bandai-Namco) – 13th November
Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (Bandai-Namco) – 4th December
Taiko Drum Master Wii (Bandai-Namco) – 11th December
Tenchu 4 (From Software) – 23rd October
Harvest Moon: Exciting Animal March (Marvelous) – 30th October
Rune Factory Frontier (Marvelous) – 27th November
Shape Boxing (Rocket Co.) – 30th October
2009
Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) – spring
Start w/ 100 Conversations! English Conversation (Nintendo) – 2009
Punch-Out!! (Nintendo) – 2009
Trace Memory: R, Gateway of Memory (Nintendo) – 2009
Kensax (Nintendo) – 2009
Cosmic Walker (Nintendo) – 2009
Spawn Smasher (Nintendo) – 2009
Dynamic [illegible] (Nintendo) – 2009
Takt of Magic (Nintendo) – 2009
Sin & Punishment 2 (Nintendo) – 2009
Forever Blue 2: Beautiful Ocean (Nintendo) – 2009
Everyone’s the Star on the NHK Red-and-White Quiz Battle (Nintendo) – 2009
Line Attack Heroes (Nintendo) – 2009
Castlevania: Judgment (Konami) – winter 2008-2009
Dead Rising: Zombies’ Sacrifice (Capcom) – winter 2008-2009
FFCC: Echoes of Time (Square-Enix) – 29th January
Sonic and the Black Knight (Sega) – spring
Fragile (Bandai-Namco) – winter 2008-2009
Arcrise Fantasia (Marvelous) – winter 2008-2009
Oboro Muramasa (Marvelous) – spring
