Although North American gamers know that they will be able to play Metroid: Other M on June 27, our friends in Europe have been left without a release date. The only thing Nintendo has said is that the game will launch in Q3 of this year. While European gamers continue to wait on a firm date, sources close to Wii-DS.nl claim that the title will be available on July 16. This should definitely be considered a rumor at the moment, but keep in mind that the release dates for Mario Kart Wii and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn were accurately predicted in the past.

Thanks to Dragoon for the news tip!

Nintendo has yet to announce Last Window for North America or Europe, but it seems likely that the game is being localized. There is a catch, though. So far, while a trademark for the game was found for Europe, it has not been registered in the U.S. database. Of course, it’s still more than possible that Nintendo of America will bring the game over. I am a little bit concerned though since the company failed to localize titles such as Disaster: Day of Crisis and Another Code: R.

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Nintendo Wii

North America:
1. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
2. Walk It Out! (Konami)
3. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
4. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
5. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)

Japan:
1. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
2. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
3. Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo)
4. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)
5. Zangeki no Reginleiv (Nintendo)

UK:
1. Just Dance (Ubisoft)
2. Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board (Nintendo)
3. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Sega)
4. New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
5. Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo)

Nintendo DS

North America:
1. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
2. Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Capcom)
3. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)
4. Bejeweled Twist (PopCap)
5. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Sega)

Japan:
1. Fushigi no Dungeon: Fuurai no Shiren 4 – Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso (Spike)
2. Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi (Square Enix
3. Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo)
4. Zelda no Densetsu: Daichi no Kiteki (Nintendo)
5. Love Plus (Konami)

UK:
1. Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box (Nintendo)
2. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo)
3. New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo)
4. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games (Sega)
5. Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training (Nintendo)

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Thanks to asso for the news tip!

Media summit

– Big games were Galaxy 2 and Other M, last saw them at E3
– Photo Dojo coming to North America
– 20-24 games or so, a lot of WiiWare/DSiWare titles at the event
– Matt wondering what Nintendo has for the holidays, maybe Zelda
– Daemon would be surprised if Zelda came out this year
– Games at the event: Other M, Galaxy 2, Monster Hunter 3, Sin and Punishment: Star Successor, Prince of Persia, FlingSmash, WarioWare: D.I.Y., Photo Dojo, X-Scape, Metal Torrent, Guilty Party, Super Meat Boy, And Yet It Moves, Rage of the Gladiator, Art Style: Rotozoa, Art Style: light trax, Mega Man 10, Max and the Magic Marker, Pokemon HeartGold/Soul Silver, Picross 3D, 100 Classic Books, America’s Test Kitchen, GhostWire (wasn’t playable)
– DSi XL $189.99, it’s Craig’s system of choice
– Daemon was impressed with the show overall

Metroid: Other M
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Firstly, let me quickly apologize for the useless 2 minutes of nothing at the end of the video. I have no idea how it got there, but I figured it wouldn’t be a huge issue for you guys.

Just so you all know, this is going to be a 2 part article. After you read it, I encourage you to leave as many hateful (or nice!) comments as you wish, telling me how wrong (or right!) I am. I’ll sculpt my next article, which will go up this Sunday, around your responses, and finish off any points I left bare in this one. Like before, there’s a textual summary past the break if you need to read up on anything! Enjoy!

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Cammie on the game industry moving toward a more year-long release schedule…

“One of the things that’s true for Nintendo is that we’re not driven by a calendar for our release dates. When the games are ready to go, when the quality is perfect, that’s when we release. We all benefit if we can keep a pretty steady pace, so the development teams have worked hard to make sure that we’ve got a full lineup this year. If you compare the first half of 2010 with the first half of 2009, it’s night and day. And from some of the things that Mr. Iwata has talked about, and that we will talk about at E3, like Zelda, you know that we’re going to have a good back half of the year, as well. (About releasing Mario/Metroid/Zelda Wii in the same year) And you said we wouldn’t. You bet no, right?…”

Dunaway on Nintendo localizing games…

“The way it works is that Nintendo of America and Nintendo of Europe have teams who are responsible for going over to Japan three or four times a year, looking at what’s going on with the development teams, and making decisions about what makes sense to bring to the U.S. and when it makes sense to bring it here. I would argue that they are bringing a lot of great Japanese property here — I know you and I are great Professor Layton fans, and we finally got our Professor Layton 2, and hopefully we’ll get 3 sometime — I don’t know, but I’m hoping on it.

And bringing things like Fossil Fighter here, and certainly some of the lineup that we talked about today from things like Sin and Punishment, and also from a third party, bringing Dragon Quest IX, which we’re going to publish here in the U.S., Monster Hunter Tri, coming in a big partnership with Capcom to make sure that we really expose that content, which Japanese audiences love, to American audiences. So you’re right, we pick and choose, and we can’t bring everything. But I think that we’re working hard to try and bring a lot of those titles that did well in Japan to the U.S.”

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