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Possible Candidates for Nintendo's New Wii Budget Line Revealed

by Pedro Hernandez - January 27, 2010, 5:39 am EST
Total comments: 8 Source: SiliconEra

These titles are possible candidates for the "Everyone's Recommendation" series in Japan.

As announced last week, Nintendo will begin a new initiative called "Everyone's Recommendation Selection" in Japan. Nintendo will choose the highest ranking Wii titles according to the votes found on the Nintendo Channel's best games list. Website SiliconEra compiled a list of games fitting this description.

The first seven games include Marvelous and Vanillaware's Muramasa: The Demon Blade, SEGA/Platinum's 428, and Marvelous' Arc Rise Fantasia. Namco Bandai is the company with the most titles in the selection with four, including One Piece Unlimited Cruise Episode 1, Family Ski: World Ski and Snowboard, Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3.

The following titles are likely candidates to receive budget reprint treatment according to the ratings given by players on the Nintendo Channel. The titles have been ranked in Gold, Silver and Bronze rankings:

Gold:

  • Tales of Graces (Namco Bandai)

  • New Super Mario Bros Wii (Nintendo)

  • Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

  • Monster Hunter Tri (Capcom)

  • Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)

  • Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Marvelous)

  • One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 2 (Namco Bandai)

  • Super Smash Brothers Brawl (Nintendo)

Silver:

  • Samurai Warriors 3 (Koei)

  • Arc Rise Fantasia (Marvelous)

  • Monster Hunter G (Capcom)

  • Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball Next (Konami)

  • New Play Control! Pikmin 2 (Nintendo)

  • Taiko no Tatsujin (Namco Bandai)

  • Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo)

  • Family Ski: World Ski & Snowboard (Namco Bandai)

  • One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 1 (Namco Bandai)

  • Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 15 (Konami)

  • Mario Super Sluggers (Nintendo)

  • Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo)

  • Winning Eleven Play Maker 2008 (Konami)

  • Family Ski (Namco Bandai)

  • Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Wii Ketteiban (Konami)

  • Wii Fit (Nintendo)

  • Sengoku Basara 2 Heroes (Capcom)

  • Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)

  • Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition (Capcom)

  • The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess (Nintendo)

Bronze:

  • New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis (Nintendo)

  • New Play Control! Pikmin (Nintendo)

  • Karoke Joysound Wii (Hudson Soft)

  • Wii Music (Nintendo)

  • Disaster: Day of Crisis (Nintendo)

  • Fatal Frame 4 (Nintendo)

  • Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (Namco Bandai)

  • Battalion Wars 2 (Nintendo)

  • Minna no Joushiki Ryoku TV (Nintendo)

  • Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Nintendo)

  • No More Heroes (Marvelous)

  • Naruto Shippuden: Gekitou Ninja Taisen EX 2 (TOMY)

  • Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Sega)

  • Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles (Capcom)

  • Zack & Wiki (Capcom)

  • Dragon Ball Z Budokai III (Namco Bandai)

  • Momotaro Densetsu 16 (Hudson Soft)

  • One Piece Unlimited Adventure (Namco Bandai)

  • Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Nintendo)

  • Wii Sports (Nintendo)

Talkback

StratosJanuary 27, 2010

I need to go check the Nintendo Channel and see what the potential titles would be for the States.

BlackNMild2k1January 27, 2010

Pap, I really like that you linked to the forums in the last story, but I also really like that you referenced the last story in this story. NWR news stories need more of that. Keep up the good work.

Also I couldn't help bit think I had seen this somewhere, then I checked the forum thread and realized that Maxi had posted an incomplete version of this list leaving out the titles that were already posted.

CalibanJanuary 27, 2010

I've been waiting for "One Piece Unlimited Cruise: Episode 2" to come out here in NA...

NWR_pap64Pedro Hernandez, Contributing WriterJanuary 27, 2010

This list is fascinating because you can see how the Japanese rate certain Nintendo titles. For example, Super Mario Galaxy is rated as a silver title as well as Twilight Princess. Both titles are rated as Gold in the US, so you can clearly see what Miyamoto means when he says that certain titles are received better in the US and Europe than in Japan.

Very shocking is that Metroid Prime 3 is a Bronze title in Japan when Metroid Prime Trilogy is Platinum in the US.

NinGurl69 *hugglesJanuary 27, 2010

Growing up, everyone thought Japan was some technological fantasy land where even the youngest kids had all the coolest toys and tech (and they were all smarter than the Amerikan school kids).

Looking at how their TEREBEE-GAYMOO industry has shaped over the past decade, it's a lame place.  Nintendo has worked hard in some areas, and not hard enough in others, to fight the country's ailing gaming culture.

TJ SpykeJanuary 27, 2010

Quote from: NWR_pap64

Very shocking is that Metroid Prime 3 is a Bronze title in Japan when Metroid Prime Trilogy is Platinum in the US.

I am not to be honest. The Metroid Prime games have never been that popular in Japan, I am disappointed with that TBH since they are great games.

Mop it upJanuary 28, 2010

I would be absolutely surprised if any Nintendo-published title ended up as one of these discounted games. They probably aren't a part of the "eligible" ones.

NWR_insanolordJ.P. Corbran, Community ManagerJanuary 28, 2010

Nintendo has proven that they would rather discontinue a game than drop its price.

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