Nintendo’s Wii is set to arrive this Sunday on November 19th. The company has said there will be enough units available at launch in the USA, but shortages are already implied at launch. The total units are expected to be below 2 million units in 2006, with 4 million Wii’s shipping worldwide this year (400,000 at the Japanese launch on December 2). Here are the Wii game lists.
Wii launch list (28):
* Avatar: The Last Airbender
* Barnyard
* Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
* Call of Duty 3
* Disney’s Cars
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
* Excite Truck
* GT Pro Series
* Happy Feet
* Madden NFL 07
* Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
* Metal Slug Anthology
* Monster 4X4 World Circuit
* Need for Speed Carbon
* Open Season
* Rampage: Total Destruction
* Rapala Tournament Fishing
* Rayman Raving Rabbids
* Red Steel
* SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
* Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
* The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Double Agent
* Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam
* Trauma Center: Second Opinion
* Wii Sports (free pack-in game)
* World Series of Poker
Wii 2006 titles (7):
* Bionicle Heroes sometime in 2006.
* Elebits is delayed to December 12.
* Far Cry Vengeance is delayed to December 5.
* Ice Age 2: The Meltdown sometime in 2006.
* One Piece: Unlimited Adventure sometime in 2006.
* Super Swing Golf sometime in December.
* The Ant Bully on November 20.
Delayed Wii titles (5):
* Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors was delayed to sometime in 2007.
* Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers was delayed to sometime in 2007.
* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption was delayed to sometime in 2007.
* Wario Ware: Smooth Moves is delayed to January 17, 2007.
* Wii Play was delayed to sometime in 2007.
Classic games are a big attraction for the Wii. When your Wii gets connected to the internet, from day one, you can download 30 so-called Virtual Console games from Nintendo’s online store to the Wii’s internal memory.
NES Games cost 500 Wii Points = $5
* Baseball
* Donkey Kong
* Donkey Kong Jr.
* Ice Hockey
* Mario Bros.
* Pinball
* Soccer
* Solomon’s Key
* Tennis
* The Legend of Zelda
* Urban Champion
* Wario’s Woods
SNES Games cost 800 Wii Points = $8
* F-Zero
* SimCity
N64 Games cost 1000 Wii Points = $10
* Super Mario 64
Genesis Games cost 800 Wii Points = $8
* Altered Beast
* Columns
* Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
* Ecco the Dolphin
* Golden Axe
* Gunstar Heroes
* Ristar
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Space Harrier II
* Toe Jam & Earl
TurboGrafx 16 Games cost 600 Wii Points = $6
* Bomberman ’93
* Bonk’s Adventure
* Dungeon Explorer
* Super Star Soldier
* Victory Run
The Wii can also play all previous 530 Nintendo GameCube games!
PS: Considering the Xbox 360 launched with 18 titles and the PS3 will launch with 13 titles tomorrow, the Wii actually has the strongest retail support with 28 titles.
Update: Thanks to Scott for pointing out we missed Call of Duty 3, so there are actually 58 games coming in total.