Nintendo drops the bomb on us, MP3 this Summer

by David Hinkle { May 21st 2007 at 11:15AM }

Nintendo dished out a rather juicy bit of news today, documenting release dates for some of its most high profile Wii and DS games. Notable titles include Boogie (releasing this Fall), Mario Strikers: Charged (July 30th), Battalion Wars 2 (September) and Space Station Tycoon (August). Oh, and a little title by the name of Metroid Prime 3 receives a release date of August 20th. While it isn't the release date we were all hoping for, it's still better than the Christmas time release we were all expecting.

For the full list of games, head past the post break.

July 30 Mario Strikers Charged Nintendo
Aug. 20 Metroid Prime 3 Corruption Nintendo
Aug. 14 High School Musical: Sing It! Disney Interactive Studios
Aug. 14 Madden NFL '08 EA
August Tiger Woods PGA Tour '08 EA
August Space Station Tycoon Namco Bandai
August Brunswick Pro Bowling Crave
August Dave Mirra BMX Challenge Crave
August Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection Crave
September Battalion Wars 2 Nintendo
September Brothers in Arms Ubisoft
September Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal Warner Bros.
September George of the Jungle Crave
Fall Boogie EA

Tags: metroid, metroidprime, mp3, nintendo, nintendowii, wii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

natef @ May 21st 2007 11:33AM

Cool, so I'll actually start using my Wii again come August 20!

ConstyXIV @ May 21st 2007 11:36AM

Thank god BWii is still alive, but has anyone noticed that Project HAMMER and Disaster appear to have fallen off the radar?

andyl @ May 21st 2007 11:50AM

...now, what about "Mario Galaxy?" I guess I was under the impression that "Galaxy" would be released before "MP3"...but apparently not...

Ihar `Philips` Filipau @ May 21st 2007 11:51AM

I MP3:C would be as "complicated" as Z:TP.

I'm bit frustrated by usual "die, restart all over" ideology of most console games. Playing Doom or Quake on PC saving every minute is norm of life. And not that I die often. But on consoles, games tend to try to deviate - and rarely keep to purity of genre. Thanks to cracking, piracy and bittorrent I can now actually fully preview most PC games before buying. But on consoles it is different. And it is more often mixed bag - mini-games, some silly tasks which have nothing to do with main genre of game - often spoil game completely. And worst - there is no instant save/load functions.

I can only hope that MP3:C would be mostly shooter - like MP3:H was. Mostly. Some silly timed places where you are have to do something in N:NN minutes... This sucked a lot. I hope MP3:C would have few/no levels like that.

Wedge @ May 21st 2007 1:07PM

To #4
But the Metroid Prime series of games aren't intended to be first person shooters. They're called, by their producers, first person adventure games.

So although obviously you have the right to want 'pure first person shooter' gameplay, you have to realize that that's never been what Retro was aiming for. And as such, that's probably not what you'll get.

And things like 'silly' timed events have been a part of the Metroid series from the beginning.

AJ Vaynerchuk @ May 21st 2007 1:32PM

I have been waiting for this game for a long time. Glad the rumors weren't true of a Winter release date!!!

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TheClassic @ May 21st 2007 1:44PM

I was disappointed to find the article was about Metroid Prime 3. I thought the headline was indicating an mp3 playing channel was going to be released (like using a networked computer's share).

Billy_McBong @ May 21st 2007 3:41PM

@7 thats what i thought too, execpt i was excited that it ment metroid instead of mp3. i dont care much if my Wii can play mp3s

and anyone elso notice how neither brawl nor galaxy is on that list

Mr Khan @ May 21st 2007 3:58PM

This is basically Nintendo saying their fiscal 2nd quarter (our gregorian 3rd quarter)

Galaxy and Brawl later on is find by me

And i knew they would push Prime out the door before Halo 3, they basically had to if they wanted to beat MP2's (relatively) poor sales

Mr Khan @ May 21st 2007 4:37PM

HAMMER and Disaster are probably pushed back to later on

I mean, Nintendo needs something bigger to really please the crowds in the longer term, especially since they're new IPs

steve @ May 21st 2007 4:38PM

I can't fucking wait

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sean @ May 21st 2007 5:43PM

actualy the wii already has a mp3 player setting found out yesterday---k first you have to put 1 or 2 pics on your sd mem card then put some songs on ---k once you have done that go to the pics channel and click play slide show ---while its playing the slideshow press the a button and then click select music ---ok then go down to i think the bottom of the scroll screen you get and choose the music you put on

I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I FOUND THIS OUT!!!!!!!!

DrunkenKender @ May 21st 2007 5:56PM

RTFM.. It tells you in the Wii MANUAL that you can listen to mp3's in the Photo Channel. ;) You can also use any mp3's you've got on the SD card on Excite Truck.

But hey, back on topic - Metroid Prime 3! Pre-order get!

Ryan P. @ May 21st 2007 5:56PM

They can't expect any sales if they don't have more adds.
I've heard Nintendo's moving their PR offices to New york.
Hopefully some one there will do a better job!!

Microsoft's "Gears of War" campaign was amazing. And i saw those adds a bunch of times. No one bought Echoes because they were too cheap to advertise it. Awesome game though. Wow.

Ryan

P.S :I bet they'll release "Animal crossing Wii" next X-mas and it will be the biggest game on the system. Can you imagine all the onlione stuff they could do? OMG.