Gone With the Wii: Nintendo’s Output
This is something you’ll see discussed on this week’s Dual Wielding in greater detail, bu t I thought it was an interesting enough discussion to warrant at least a poll on the site.
Essentially the question boils down to which Nintendo did you prefer, the ones who showed up for the first half of the generation or the ones who finished out the Wii?
Below you will find a list of games, roughly divided between 2006-2009 (The first 3 years) and 2010-2012 (the last 3 years) and a poll asking which era had the better output.
The first half is just a bit longer because the Wii launched in 2006, but was only on the market for 6 weeks with 3 games. So technically first 3 years and 6 weeks!Â
First Phase (2006-2009)
2006
- Wii Sports
- Excite Truck
- The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
2007
- WarioWare: Smooth Moves
- Wii Play
- Super Paper Mario
- Mario Party 8
- Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree
- Pokémon Battle Revolution
- Mario Strikers Charged
- Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
- Donkey Kong Barrel Blast
- Battalion Wars 2
- Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
- Super Mario Galaxy
- Link’s Crossbow Training
2008
- Endless Ocean
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl
- Mario Kart Wii
- Wii Fit
- Wario Land: Shake It!
- Wii Music
- Animal Crossing: City Folk
- Wii Chess (Europe only)
- Disaster: Day of Crisis (Japan, Europe and Australia only)
- Mario Super Sluggers (Japan and North America only)’
- Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen (Japan only)
- Captain Rainbow (Japan only)
2009
- New Play Control! Mario Power Tennis
- New Play Control! Pikmin
- New Play Control! Donkey Kong Jungle Beat
- Punch-Out!!
- Wii Sports Resort
- Metroid Prime: Trilogy
- Wii Fit Plus
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii
- Another Code: R — A Journey into Lost Memories (Japan and Europe only)
- Excitebots: Trick Racing (North America only)
- New Play Control! Chibi Robo (Japan only)
- Takt of Magic (Japan only)
Second Phase (2010-2012)
2010
- Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep
- Sin & Punishment: Star Successor
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Samurai Warriors 3 (Published by Nintendo outside of Japan)
- PokéPark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure
- Metroid: Other M
- Wii Party
- Kirby’s Epic Yarn
- FlingSmash
- Donkey Kong Country Returns
- Super Mario All-Stars 25th Anniversary Edition
- Zangeki no Reginleiv (Japan only)
2011
- Mario Sports Mix
- Wii Play: Motion
- Pandora’s Tower (Japan and PAL only)
- Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident
- Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Fortune Street
2012
- Rhythm Heaven Fever
- PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond
- Mario Party 9
- Kiki Trick (Japan only)
- Xenoblade Chronicles
- Project Zero II: Wii Edition (Published by Nintendo in Japan, Australia and Europe only)
- The Last Story (Published by Nintendo in Japan and Europe)
- New Play Control! Pikmin 2
- Kirby’s Dream Collection
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