Confirmed: GameCube Metroid Prime, Pikmin, etc enhanced for Wii
New DS, check. Storage solution for Wii, check. GameCube games for the Wii? Uber check! Announced during today’s Nintendo press conference is Wii de Asobu Selection. It’s a new line of Nintendo releases, taking their first-party titles from the GameCube and bringing them over to the Wii. No, they’re not just re-releasing them as they were in the GameCube! Nintendo is enhancing their previous games and giving them Wiimote support, kinda like what Capcom did for Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition.
New DS, check. Storage solution for Wii, check. GameCube games for the Wii? Uber check!
Announced during today’s Nintendo press conference is Wii de Asobu Selection. It’s a new line of Nintendo releases, taking their first-party titles from the GameCube and bringing them over to the Wii.
No, they’re not just re-releasing them as they were in the GameCube! Nintendo is enhancing their previous GameCube games and giving them Wiimote support, kinda like what Capcom did for Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition.
So far, there’s no word about any release outside of Japan, but for now the confirmed titles to be released under the Wii de Asobu Selection (which, btw, directly translates to “Play on the Wii Selection”) are the following:
- Donkey Kong Jungle Beat (to be released on December 11, 2008)
- Pikmin (December 25, 2008)
- Chibi Robo (2009)
- Pikmin 2 (2009)
- Mario Tennis GC (2009)
- Metroid Prime (2009)
- Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes (2009)
Sweet. Now the entire Metroid Prime trilogy is playable with the Wiimote (let’s hope they make the controls work as seamless as Corruption‘s controls). And let’s hope they bring Wind Waker and Super Mario Sunshine too.
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