Japanese Wii Ware promo page shows off 11 games

While American Wii owners have to wait until May to enjoy original downloadable Wii Ware games, Japanese Wii owners are gearing up for the March launch of the service with a screenshot-filled promotional web page.

The site's list of 11 games (translated to English below) is conspicuously missing Western -developed titles like ~~Telltale's~~ Frontier's (edit: typo) Lost Winds and Mastiff's Major League Eating, although that last omission might be considered a bonus for Japan. It's not clear which of the listed games will be available for the service's Japanese launch, but you can bet the initial lineup will be better line up than the three games that are currently confirmed for the service's U.S. debut.

Games listed on the Japanese Wii Ware site:

FFCC: The Young King and the Promised Land
StarSoldierR
Word Puzzle Mojipittan Wii
Pokemon Ranch
Dr. Mario's Virus Buster
Marubou Shikaku
Magnetica
Bomberman
Okiraku Ping-Pong Wii
Angels' Solitaire
Joysound Wii

[Via NintendoWiiFanboy]

Reader Comments (33)

Anything about the size of the games?

I always appreciate the quality gaming i get from Nintendo... or is that nostalgia?

lets see, 12 games and if we use the standard good:trash Wii Game ratio two of these should be good.

Its as though you don't even think anymore before you post. Almost all of these look good for downloadable games. I'm hyped for Dr. Mario, especially.

Wait, Dr. motherfucking Mario? Where have I been that I haven't heard of this?

Pleasing to come to American Wii please!

where HAVE you been? that's old news. It is coming to america and has wi-fi multiplayer and mii utilization

I could have sworn it said "The Young King In Neverland"..............................................

Dr. Mario is already confirmed for Wii Ware in the US. Don't know if it is a launch title.

Why should we care about this Shovel *cough* I mean WiiWare?

Did you just confuse a downloadable gaming service with a shovel?

No, Wii download able games will suck worse then most Wii games already do.

Way to not even look at the games before judging 'em, mate.

Quote from yesterday - "I remember when you actually had to know what the fuck a game was before you berated 'em". A good amount of these games actually look fun.

For a Wii game to be fun it has to be either a completely new game or actually a game and not that casual shit.

Kujel WTF are you talking about?

And how many of these are actually new?

What was that? All of 'em?

And don't pull that 'port' shit on me either (in the case of Dr. Mario, StarSoldier, and Defend Your Castle), each of those have had quite a bit of new content added.

Considering these games will likely retail for $5 I don't get what the big deal is with you. I'd pay $10 for the NES version of Dr. Mario. A revamped version with co-op and online? I'm already sold.

Aye, what are you thinking? Of the names on that list i can comprehend, the only one that doesn't look appealing is Pokemon Ranch (not because its Pokemon, its like Exposition software to show 'em off, more pointless than Check Mii Out)

Co, he's talking about the fact that he was abused as a child and never got a NES from his parents. You have to read into it a little. All the Nintendo-related crying like retards that these people do is their way of telling you that they just want to be loved.

To all the Nintendo Fanboys: the problem with ports to the Wii is they are all the shittiest games in Nintendo's library. Casual "games" lick monkey balls, they're not fun. bm I do actually have an NES, it was given to me by my sister not my parents but I do have one.
This kind of shit is the same reason I don't practically ever buy Xbox Live Arcade games as too many are casual shit or ports of lousy games. Why waste $5 on shit that will occupy me for five minutes when 50 or 60 will occupy me for 20-40 hours.

"it was given to me by my sister not my parents"

HYPOTHESIS CONFIRMED!

Time heals all wounds. Trust me.

i thought that last one was "Joystiq Sound." I was about to say...

Isn't Lostwinds by Frontier, not Telltale?

Ahh, great, WiiWare launches with *surprise* a Pokemon title...

*sigh*

I'd like to see this when something decent gets put up... i'd also like to hear about transferability from Wii to Wii...

Yea, I hate when Nintendo releases new things on brand new consoles/services.

Oh wait. It's the first...

And then they compare wii target audiences with ps3 target audiences...

Nintendo will continue to take my money and my gaming time. Whilst I work for the others, lol.

"Pokemon Ranch", enjoy the flavor of all your favorite pokemon with our Pokemon Ranch, a low fat and tasty salad dressing.

Will there be ground up bits of Butterfree sprinkled in?

Free Flash games for sale!

Buy your free Flash games from nintendo for only $5!

*cough*lost wind is not telltale's *cough*

Must... have... Dr... Mario...

Dr.Mario is a must-buy to me.

Square Enix said that the WiiWare titles are limited to 40MB.

Oh Em Gee, Dr Mario! Awesome. That is an insta-buy.

Japanese Wii Ware promo page shows off 11 games

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