Topic: Wii 2012

Assuming I'm getting a PS3 for the holidays, I'm not too concerned about the Wii for next year.

Let's see, games I still want in my collection:
Goldeneye
NiGHTS Wii
Mario Galaxy 2
Kirby's Epic Yarn
DKCR
De Blob/De Blob 2
CoD (at least one of them anyway)
Epic Mickey
Trauma Team
Zelda SS

Games I may end up wanting:
NSMB Wii
ExciteBots
Punchout!! Wii
WarioLand Shake
WarioWare Smooth Moves
PoP the Forgotten Sands
Kirby's Return to Dreamland
Rhythm Heaven Wii
Go Vacation
Rodea the Sky Soldier
The Last Story
Pandora's Tower
Dragon Quest X
a TON of WiiWare and VC releases
some Gamecube games I still need

...so I guess despite everything, I'm good for the next year or two. There are some serious holes I would have liked to have been filled in certain genres (3rd person shooters and flight games to name a few), but I'll make do with what's on the PC.

@n0body - you must play ExciteBots - I bought myself a US Wii just to play this title (rather than have any online hassles due to using Homebrew Channel)
Much more fun than Mario Kart - and I like Mario Kart - for a lousy racer like me who's anywhere but where he's s'posed to be, I can still rack up the points!

Although it's not a 2012 release, looking forward to CoD:MW3 on the Wii, partly because it's the only console that my two sons and I have in common, and the remainder because I feel I've had more fun playing Goldeneye and Black Ops on the Wii than I can remember on the PS3, even with the FC rigmarole (where it applies).

Most of all, I'm looking forward to the Wii U being able to play my small collection of Wii games and - 'fingers-crossed' - transferring all Wii Shop downloads.
I cannot honestly believe it is technically that hard to securely shift a game's DRM licence from one console to another.

@Schprocket thanks for the tip. I played Mario Kart to death on the DS so I was looking for something different to play on Wii, I think it'll be either EB or Sonic Racing.

Or Pilot Wings, or Luigi's Mansion, or Mario Golf/Tennis...

Why does every thread about lists of future Wii games turn into a list of old games people still need to get?!

By the way, there's not that much to wait for in terms of quantity, but the quality should be first class: Skyward Sword, Kirby, Last Story, Pandora's Tower, Rodea, Dragon Quest X, Rhythm Heaven and a handful of mediocre to good little titles (Pilotwings, Back to the Future etc). It's a decent list of titles, considering that Jan 2011 - Aug 2011 we had absolutely nothing.

Plus something inside of me keeps saying that we'll see a double release of Pikmin 3 for both Wii and WiiU, but that's just a premonition.

I agree with Vonseux, Rayman origins looks great! A
@spizzamarozzi Before Xenoblade chronicles, there was at least Kirby's epic yarn this year.

All consoles gather dust don't they? I mean you don't wave your xbox and PS3 in the air while you play it while your wii gathers dust? Well i know i don't.

Actually you're right, and even though I play my PS3 most of all, it's the most dusty. I need to dust off my consoles more D:

My Wii will make great firewood during next year.

well yeah, but they kinda reversed what's preferred. The 2nd to last year of release you still release stuff, if not as much as the year before. THEN, you have a lack of releases so that people can buy old games they missed. That just seems more convenient at least.

During the next 2 years probably any Wii game will sell much better than any WiiU game, if Nintendo leaves the Wii to die their pockets will be the first to suffer.

Wii 2012

I laughed.

Mario Party 9 is coming out in the EU in 2012 and I'm probably insta-buying that. Rodea the Sky Soldier IF it comes out on the Wii in the EU

Elsewise there's Rhythm Paradise/Heaven and Lego Batman 2 that I MAY buy.

Others may be interested in Last Story and Pandora's Tower on the Wii in the EU!

Not wasting money on the other consoles except the Wii U and 3DS

Oh no! Whatever will I do without a bunch of ports!

Rhythm Heaven Wii. I'm pretty much satisfied by this point and have gotten the most mileage and gaming out of my wii for now (I've played/owned 45 wii games and currently own over 50 VC and Wiiware games). Planning on getting a PS3 for Holiday season and finally doing all that catching up I need to do over 2012. (I've been neglecting Sony since I had to choose between the Wii and PS3 when they came out. I went for the cheaper and platformer-oriented decision )

So yeah, Nintendo, lemme know when you start breaking out some real hits on the Wii U and 3DS next year and I'll have my money in my "Nintendo needs this" wallet ready.

So you're planning on downloading the Wii-Ware Fireplacing game? ...or whatever it is...

SHHH! _{Don't talk about homebrew or hacking}

That's what he will be burning it with.

I will probably just keep it in the basement with my 90's TV. Brawl will be the only thing I'll be using it for, since my friends like to use the gamecube controllers.