U.S. WiiWare not on the same monthly release schedule as Japan

by JC Fletcher { Apr 24th 2008 at 12:45PM }

When WiiWare launched in Japan on March 25th, the service offered nine new games. Then, no new releases at all (except, of course, for My Life as a King and Lonpos DLC) until almost a month later, when Minna de Puzzloop showed up.

According to a Wired discussion with Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America is going to take more of a Virtual Console-like approach, in which everyone complains that each week's new game isn't Earthbound two or three games come out every week. That means that all the games that were previously announced for launch, like Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Pop, and Major League Eating will be spread out across the first month or so.

Tags: launch, major-league-eating, pop, reggie, strong-bad

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

josh @ Apr 24th 2008 12:57PM

stupid but works

Paul S. @ Apr 24th 2008 1:01PM

But SBCG4AP was never intended to be a launch WiiWare title...
Strong Bad even says in the trailer that the game is coming in "June of 2008."

Tristan @ Apr 24th 2008 1:18PM

What? But i really wanted my Pokemon Ranch...

Rocketboy @ Apr 24th 2008 3:03PM

Great, now I'm starving. Anyone have any salad and ranch dressing back there?

Peter S @ Apr 24th 2008 3:26PM

I thought that the pasttime was complaining about River City Ransom for the VC? Is Earthbound the new River City Ransom? ;-) (No argument that it's a cool game, but still....)

For me, I'd love to see Nintendo really open up their catalog of older games. I just don't get the trickle that they're doing now. They'd get a whole bunch more sales if their catalog were pretty much wide open and they'd invalidate most excuses people use now for Emulators.