despite  a pretty dry few months nintendo looks set to be unleashing its next wave of software on wii. most teams both external and internal look to be releasing their second wii game.  I hope to be able to comapre these games in terms of both sales( from Vgchartz numbers) and quality. ill be using metacritic for quality as, although not perfect, its the best i could come up with. If anyone has ay better idea ill be glad to hear them.  heres a demonstration of how its going to work

Developer: Headstrong games

Game 1:  Battalion Wars 2

Sales- 200k (japan and NA only) /  score- 75

Game 2: House of the dead Overkill

Sales - 280k (NA and others only) / score- 79

of course the second games was spublished by sega so shouldnt really count but you get the idea

so lest examine  the known games in this second wave

Developer: Next Level Games

Game 1: Super Mario Strikers Charged football

Sales-  1.96 million / score- 79

Game 2:  Punchout!!!!!

Sales- 120k / score- 88

Developer: Monster Games

Game 1:  Excite truck

Sales-  930k / score- 72

Game 2:  Excitebots

Sales- 30k (NA only) / score- 80

Developer: Arika

Game 1: Endless Ocean

Sales - 1 million  / score- 72

Game 2:  Endles Ocean 2

Sales-  / score-

Developer: Nintendo EAD 2

( as a huge dev they've done multiple games so i will take thier most succesfull one)

Game 1: wii play

Sales- 22.97 million / score-58

Game 2:  Wii Sports Resort

Sales-  / score-

Developer:Cing

Game 1:Little Kings Story (pubished by MMV/Rising Star/XSEED)

Sales - 20k (others only)  / score- 88

Game 2:  Trace Memory R

Sales-  / score-

Developer: Nintendo EAD 1

Game 1: Mario Kart Wii

Sales- 15.62 million  / score- 82

Game 2:  (theres been faint mumarings that it could be star fox)

Sales-  / score-

Developer: Nintendo EAD 3 (aka zelda team)

Game 1 : Legend of zelda: twilight princess

Sales-  5.26 million / score- 95

Game 1 : Zelda Wii

Sales-  / score-

Developer: Nintendo EAD 4

Game 1: Big Brain Academy: wii degree

Sales- 3.14 milliom / score- 68

Game 2:  New super mario bros wii

Sales-  / score-

Developer: Nintendo EAD Tokyo

Game 1: Super Mario Galaxy

Sales- 8.06 million  / score-97

Game 2:  Super Mario Galaxy 2

Sales-  / score-

Developer: Nintendo EAD 5

Game 1: Wii Fit

Sales-  18.26  / score- 80

Game 2: Wii Fit Plus

Sales-  / score-

Developer: HAL Laboratory

Game 1: Super Smash Bros Brawl

Sales-8.55 million  / score- 93

Game 2:  im guessing kirby wii

Sales-  / score-

Developer: Retro

Game 1: Metroid Prime 3

Sales- 1.52 million  / score- 90

Game 2:  im guessing a new IP

Sales-  / score-

Developer: Skip Ltd

Game 1: Captain Rainbow

Sales-10k  / score- none

Game 2:  currently working on play on wii chibi  robo and all the art stlye games. a wii game from them will probably be a weird japaneese centric IP

Sales-  / score-

Developer: Intellegent systems

Game 1: Super paper mario

Sales- 2.76 million  / score-85

Game 2: could be the rumoured fire emblem in nintendo power

Sales-  / score-

Developer: Monolith Soft

Game 1: Disaster: day of crisis

Sales - 40k   / score-68

Game 2: Monado: the beginning of the world

Sales-  / score-

Itll be interesting to see this develop.

Although a full title of 'second wave' doesnt seem warrented; correct me if im wrong be there isnt much announced beyond S&P2 and Punch-Out in Nintendos main 09 Wii line-up.

@ volataire

theres also excitebots, wii sports resort and the possibillty of trace memory R and endless ocean 2. in japan theres all the new IPs shown last year but whether nintendo is the publisher of these titles in the west remains to be seen. we should see some major software fromnintendo at E3. what form itll take i have no idea

I'm not reading all that. summerize it for me

Nice thread! I look forward to see how it turns out! I'd like for you to put down more teams so people can see what teams are working and how long before they can expect news about a game from that team.

I think the second wave of software will begin this year, but it'll be mainly 2010 and 2011 that we see the fruits before Nintendo go knee deep into development of software for the successor to Wii..

The second wave will be much better than the first wave of software, I mean compare Punch-Out to Mario Strikers Charged and you have a fair idea of how the entire second wave will be I think..

OH and EAD 5 did Wii Fit, not EAD 2.. EAD 2 have made Wii Sports, Wii Music and Animal Crossing as their first wave titles..

The smaller-scale stuff will do better than their prequels, but i think it'll be hard to top some of EAD's bigger stuff (namely Zelda and Mario). I mean, everything is only getting better in the field of Wii development, people are getting bigger budgets, more leeway, and the Wii is better understood.

Excitebots - 86

Punch Out - 80

@ puffy

i thoght that EAD 5 was EAD Tokyo?

Nice thread, woopah. Could you add release dates plz?