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TheSource on 29 December 2010

Using Nintendo's site and Wikipedia, excluding downloadable games, and including bundled retail games, I've come up with the following for game releases by Nintendo console per year in the USA.

Year 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Wii 0 23 153 264 282 250
GC 0 20 146 135 98 92 46 5 0 0 0 0
N64 0 8 33 71 89 68 7 1 0 0 0 0
SNES 0 36 117 189 240 133 51 12 2 0 0 0
NES 0 18 17 56 66 94 171 124 109 48 15 0

I'm using 1985 as Year 1 for NES, 1991 as year 1 for SNES, 1996 as year 1 for N64, 2001 as year 1 for GC, and 2006 as year 1 for Wii. For NES, the formal USA-wide release wasn't until 1986, and so arguably year six is really year five. But NES launched in NYC in 1985, and in Los Angeles in Feb 1986.

Over under for year six on Wii (2011) has to be at least 150 games I'd reckon. There are about 15 games for Q1 2011 already announced and I don't think we have all late Feb / March dates just yet.



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okr on 29 December 2010

Dragon Quest VI, Okamiden, Inazuma Eleven, Ghost Trick - and that's just the first 3 months of 2011.

Oh wait, this is another Wii thread, the only Nintendo system VGC members seem to care about...



atma998 on 29 December 2010
TheSource said:

Using Nintendo's site and Wikipedia, excluding downloadable games, and including bundled retail games, I've come up with the following for game releases by Nintendo console per year in the USA.

Year 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Wii 0 23 153 264 282 250            
GC 0 20 146 135 98 92 46 5 0 0 0 0
N64 0 8 33 71 89 68 7 1 0 0 0 0
SNES 0 36 117 189 240 133 51 12 2 0 0 0
NES 0 18 17 56 66 94 171 124 109 48 15 0

I'm using 1985 as Year 1 for NES, 1991 as year 1 for SNES, 1996 as year 1 for N64, 2001 as year 1 for GC, and 2006 as year 1 for Wii. For NES, the formal USA-wide release wasn't until 1986, and so arguably year six is really year five. But NES launched in NYC in 1985, and in Los Angeles in Feb 1986.

Over under for year six on Wii (2011) has to be at least 150 games I'd reckon. There are about 15 games for Q1 2011 already announced and I don't think we have all late Feb / March dates just yet.

Source, ths information is really interesting. Wow only 277 N64 games?!

Also, Wii will hit its 1000th released game very soon.



TheSource on 29 December 2010

I have more stats and graphs of this stuff in the thread I started. But yeah, N64 had only about 225 third party games in the USA over a 5-6 period. Roughly 40 a year / 3 per month.



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O-D-C on 29 December 2010
optoma1990 said:

are you taking the piss? 128bit PS2? LOL The PS2 processor could handle 4 32bit values but not 1 single 128bit value so it is a 32bit processor with the abilty to handle 4 32bit values at the same time which IS NOT 128bit!! Same with the Dreamcast it had a 32bit CPU capable of doing the same, except it had a 128bit PowerVR on it. You must succumb to the advertising idiots to claim any of these were 128 bit!

hmm I always thought the Dreamcast was 128-bit...



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atma998 on 29 December 2010
TheSource said:

I have more stats and graphs of this stuff in the thread I started. But yeah, N64 had only about 225 third party games in the USA over a 5-6 period. Roughly 40 a year / 3 per month.

Which thread are you talking about? Can you give me a link?



gumby_trucker on 29 December 2010
TheSource said:

Using Nintendo's site and Wikipedia, excluding downloadable games, and including bundled retail games, I've come up with the following for game releases by Nintendo console per year in the USA.

Year 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Wii 0 23 153 264 282 250            
GC 0 20 146 135 98 92 46 5 0 0 0 0
N64 0 8 33 71 89 68 7 1 0 0 0 0
SNES 0 36 117 189 240 133 51 12 2 0 0 0
NES 0 18 17 56 66 94 171 124 109 48 15 0

I'm using 1985 as Year 1 for NES, 1991 as year 1 for SNES, 1996 as year 1 for N64, 2001 as year 1 for GC, and 2006 as year 1 for Wii. For NES, the formal USA-wide release wasn't until 1986, and so arguably year six is really year five. But NES launched in NYC in 1985, and in Los Angeles in Feb 1986.

Over under for year six on Wii (2011) has to be at least 150 games I'd reckon. There are about 15 games for Q1 2011 already announced and I don't think we have all late Feb / March dates just yet.

So it looks like at least 150 games for 2011 indeed, and based on the support the DS is still seeing, I'd imagine we'd still see around 20-30 games released for the Wii during the successors first year ie 2013. Which would put 2012 somewhere in the middle... lets say 80-90 games for a total of 250 more games minimum. I hope no less than 10% of those are must-have titles.



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Declan on 30 December 2010
gumby_trucker said:
TheSource said:

Using Nintendo's site and Wikipedia, excluding downloadable games, and including bundled retail games, I've come up with the following for game releases by Nintendo console per year in the USA.

Year 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Wii 0 23 153 264 282 250            
GC 0 20 146 135 98 92 46 5 0 0 0 0
N64 0 8 33 71 89 68 7 1 0 0 0 0
SNES 0 36 117 189 240 133 51 12 2 0 0 0
NES 0 18 17 56 66 94 171 124 109 48 15 0

I'm using 1985 as Year 1 for NES, 1991 as year 1 for SNES, 1996 as year 1 for N64, 2001 as year 1 for GC, and 2006 as year 1 for Wii. For NES, the formal USA-wide release wasn't until 1986, and so arguably year six is really year five. But NES launched in NYC in 1985, and in Los Angeles in Feb 1986.

Over under for year six on Wii (2011) has to be at least 150 games I'd reckon. There are about 15 games for Q1 2011 already announced and I don't think we have all late Feb / March dates just yet.

So it looks like at least 150 games for 2011 indeed, and based on the support the DS is still seeing, I'd imagine we'd still see around 20-30 games released for the Wii during the successors first year ie 2013. Which would put 2012 somewhere in the middle... lets say 80-90 games for a total of 250 more games minimum. I hope no less than 10% of those are must-have titles.

To return to the crux of the thread for a moment, how many of these titles are going to be Nintendo's own?



nintendowii2000 on 31 December 2010

driver 5 is also coming to wii ,   thats a big franchise,    with that said ,  we have to wait nintendo holds their guns til the last minute, we didnt know about kirby goldeneye etc til e3 so we wont know bout the big hits til e3 next year its logical remember sin and punishment and smg2 appeared at tgs in 09   , 

so ya thats why we knew about it , 

 or was it e3 ,  one of the two , 

and that was one of the only big releases we had from nintendo earlier in 2010  lol, so we have to wait til at least june to get wii news ,

i dont see much for ps3 at this junction either except tm and kz3  as well as r3  ,cause those were at this yrs e3 ,

same for ms nothing i dont see nothing but gears of war 3 and forza 4 , 

we have to rely on 3rd party for the early parts of next year and thats fine cause most 3rd party games arent in the news their just thrown out at no givin notice, -eg re0 i didnt know about that until it came out ,, same for hotd overkill ,

dont forget we got conduit 2

sims 3-just came out

-nfs hp3

goldeneye

dkc4

kirby epic yarn

metroid other m

mario all stars

cod bops

peoples wallets shou ld already be hurt lol ,



Bobbuffalo on 31 December 2010

Nintendo is very secretive of its releases. Besides I think that this first trimester of the year they will focus on 3DS and fill Wii's library with Mario Sports Mix and some 3d party games. I guess that Zelda will be released until summer of this year? I doubt it will be earlier and I doubt that it will be on holidays simply because on E3 they always announce the holiday line-up.

Which speaking of it, I wonder what they will suprise us with on E3? Judging for this year behaviour I am inclined to believe that Nintendo will show us more WiiMotionPlus games with Zelda leading the pack? I mean, they are inlcuding it on new consoles and controlers without rising the price and they even created the Wii Remote Plus! Why bother to do all this if it is not for anything but new motion games with core franchises (f-zero? star-fox?) or maybe a new brand IP?

I hope so. I think that WM has a lot of untaped potential.