its great that some third parties are stepping up

Hope its better than Harvest Moon on the WII, as that game was bad produced. Louzy sound, no 480p, felt really like a cheap game in hand. I hope the US version, which will release in August had a big make over, comparing to the JP version, so I will buy the US version for sure. Rune Factory on the DS is a must have, a great game! Hope this one turns out to be great as well...

Edit: checked devs to be sure, I see Rune Factory is being produced by Neverland and Harvest Moon Tree of Tranquility by Marvelous, bot published by Marvelou (in Japan that is, in the US by Natsume)

WOW!

I want this game

Why, Marvelous, why? Why must you continue to make me give you my money? Why!?

Man, that looks awesome. And it looks like the same guy from the DS version? is that so? :3 He was pretty cool I s'pose.

 See my post which I've added... Rune Factory is being developed by Neverland not Marvelous.

this game looks good, i hope they release it this year in europe

This, Tenchu 4, Mad World, Fatal Frame 4. I'll tentatively state that Japanese developers appear to be getting on board the Wii now.

Western developers? Well... EA did recently announce that they were increasing the quality and quantity of their sports franchises on the Wii (NCAA Football and NBA Live will be appearing on a Nintendo console for the first time in 4 years; all games are built from the ground up on the Wii with considerably more features than last year). Other than that, not much.

I still believe the Western Developer problem is twofold: Publishers and Developers. Publishers are still afraid of Nintendo first party and are not entirely sure how to market to this new demographic (when you've been marketing to 10-26 year old males for two decades straight, any shift is hard to make). Western developers have fairly consistently relied on top end hardware to fuel games, as a large portion of them started on PC, and equate better hardware with better games. With recent comments from Rockstar ("fuck casual gaming") and Infinity Ward ("CoD4 wouldn't be a right fit for the Wii"), I think it's fairly clear that a lot of Western devleopers simply do not want to work on the Wii, and will fight to work on the PC, 360, PS3, or some combination thereof.

 Noted.*Ahem* Why, Neverland, why? Why must you begin to make me give you my money? Why!?

So many great looking game screens lately.