Wii Ware priced and dated for Japan

by Chris Greenhough { Mar 11th 2008 at 9:45AM }

When it comes to Wii Ware in Japan, Nintendo is cutting it fine. Just this morning, the company announced that the service would launch in the region on March 25th, a mere fortnight from now. The U.S. launch of Wii Ware, you may recall, is down for May 12th.

As well as a date, Nintendo revealed a launch line-up of nine titles with prices that ranged from 500 (Okiraku Ping-Pong Wii and Angel's Solitaire) to 1500 (My Life As A King: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles) Wii points:

Okiraku Ping-Pong Wii (Arc System Works, 500 points)
Word Puzzle Mojipittan Wii (Bandai Namco, 1000 points)
Sakusaku Animal Panic (Konami, 1000 points)
Star Soldier R (Hudson, 800 points)
My Life As A King: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Square Enix, 1500 points)
Angel's Solitaire (G-Mode, 500 points)
Dr. Mario & Bacillus Extermination (Nintendo, 1000 points)
Everybody's Pokemon Ranch (Nintendo, 1000 points)
Lonpos (Genki, 1000 points)

Update 1: GameTrailers has just updated with videos of Everybody's Pokemon Ranch, Star Soldier R, Word Puzzle Mojipittan Wii, and Dr. Mario. Hit the break, people!

[Via Game|Life]

Tags: angels-solitaire, final-fantasy, japan, lonpos, mojipittan, my-life-as-a-king, okiraku, pokemon, pokemon-ranch, sakusaku-animal-panic, starsoldierr

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

teddy_kgb75 @ Mar 11th 2008 10:08AM

i thought we already had wii ware.

i'm a little confused.

are these going to be original games?

DZounar @ Mar 11th 2008 10:43AM

Yes, Wiiware is quite old, but now it'll be used for distributing downloadable games and contents from 3rd party companies.

Sonic_13 @ Mar 11th 2008 12:35PM

The Wii Shop Channel has always had a section called WiiWare. But it has only had new channels in it. Now Nintendo is launching adding new, original games to WiiWare.

DZounar @ Mar 11th 2008 10:27AM

Are these titles confirmed for US Wiiware too?

Giggity @ Mar 11th 2008 10:59AM

FFCC 1500 wii points? thats awesome. I didn't realize it was downloadable game until just now.

Sonic_13 @ Mar 11th 2008 12:33PM

I can't wait for Dr. Mario. I first played it when it was Dr. Wario in WarioWare. It is so addicting. Online play is only going to make it the most addicting thing ever.

Perhaps for my own health and safety I should not download it....otherwise I may never stop playing it.

SoshiKitai @ Mar 11th 2008 7:48PM

You and every one of my cousins...
They used to play Dr. Mario 64 from dusk til dawn...

It was strange, since I remember I was teaching her how to play the game, by the time I got back and challenged her, she beat me as if I was a big joke. ...and I only left that house for a day.

hvnlysoldr @ Mar 11th 2008 1:56PM

Anxiously awaiting.

clif @ Mar 11th 2008 2:33PM

Nintendo is being really mum on how the storage is going to work.
I remember reading somewhere that Final Fantasy CC is about a 1 gig just for the game and well we all know that 512mb is all the Wii has for internal memory.

So, hard-drive or off 2 gig or 1 gig sd card will things start to run off??? One wonders...

hvnlysoldr @ Mar 11th 2008 11:38PM

I don't how you got that Gb number. FFCC WiiWare is only 40MB. Quite comparable to N64 sized games. Part of the trick of Wii Ware games is a special tool of decompression to fit an extreme amount of content that will expand into the whole processors when used but otherwise small when inactive.