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Top 5 Wii Games To Own This Holiday Season

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Following on from our Top 5 Xbox 360 and PS3 lists, All Age Gaming's John Elliott looks at the tough decision that Wii owners face over the next few months in what game(s) to purchase by giving us his Top 5 games to get for the Nintendo Wii this holiday season.
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Article Adjustment: The 3 games that have caused a bit of stir in terms of their release dates have been changed. Hopefully this new list better reflects the Top 5 Wii games coming in the next few months.
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CraigGOA - 109 days 2 hours ago
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The Resident Evil game should be great.
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Mahr - 109 days 1 hour ago
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Am I misunderstanding what this website means by the term 'This holiday season'? Metroid, Galaxy 2, and Red Steel 2 are all slated for 2010.
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Redempteur - 108 days 16 hours ago
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Already talking about holiday 2010 ?

That's sad
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Alex_Lives - 108 days 13 hours ago
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they included 2010 games on the list, thats so lame, they either pulled that article out of their asses or they just did it on porpuse in an attemp to make the wii holiday line up not look as lame as it already is
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Relientk77 - 108 days 12 hours ago
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wow, they didnt mention the new wii fit.. im suprised
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Shnazzyone - 108 days 11 hours ago
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5 - Somebody might not be familiar with the word "research"
Chock this up to my top 5 worst lists list... number 2. I swear who keeps posting and approving these atrocities. Who makes a list of top 5 games for the holiday season and includes 3 games slated for next year. Last I checked( as mahr already stated ) Metroid, SMG 2 and Red Steel 2 are all 2010 releases. This article gets another epic fail.

How about this author removes the three games that wont be out this holiday and replace it with Muramasa: demon Blade, Tatsunoko vs Capcom, and Tiger woods 10 or Metroid Prime Trilogy. Guess all ages gaming means kids too young to use google can post whatever they want. I know one more site that I wont bother reading news from.
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EvilTwin - 108 days 10 hours ago
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It's bad research, alright. I could understand some misunderstanding with Galaxy 2 and Other M, since they'll probably at least be holiday titles (for next year, of course).

But RS2? IGN lists it for the first quarter of next year, nowhere near holiday season:
http://wii.ign.com/objects/...
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Nugan - 108 days 10 hours ago
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Actually Evil, SMG2 is essentially finished. Nintendo is just holding it back to prevent it from damaging the sales of NSMBWii, so I'd expect to see it much earlier than holiday 2010. My guess is that it will be released in March, maybe February.

MOM's status is less clear, but given that Nintendo has not been announcing titles much more than a year in advance recently and that Corruption and Trilogy were both released in August, I think it might be released in late summer.

Nintendo is probably sitting on several unannounced projects for holiday 2010. (Zelda Wii, please?)
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EvilTwin - 108 days 7 hours ago
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Nugan -- I hadn't read anything about SMG2 being pretty much done. Wouldn't surprise me, but as the last one was a holiday release, it makes sense for this one to be, too. Of course, they have nothing to fill in for Brawl as an early year release, too.

Other M will probably depend on just what Nintendo has in mind for Zelda. If they want to make Zelda their marquee holiday title, then they'd definitely release Metroid earlier.

But Big N doesn't rush Zelda. As much as I'd love to see it next year, it wouldn't surprise me if they waited 'til 2011. Two Marios and two Metroids would leave Zelda as the last of their big three.

Of course...no one knows what the heck Retro is working on...
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Nugan - 108 days 5 hours ago
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From Wikipedia:

"In Miyamoto's private conference, it was stated that the game is very far along in development, but its release is being held back to 2010 due to New Super Mario Bros. Wii being released in 2009."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

That doesn't mean they can't hold it until the holidays, but I'd be surprised if they sat on it for that long.

As far as Other M is concerned, you're right that it's impossible to know. I was just making my best guess.

And I really hope we find out what Retro is up to at TGS.
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CraigGOA - 108 days 8 hours ago
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6 - release dates
According to Gamestracker, the american release dates for the 5 games are as below:

Yes, I realise that Red Steel 2 has been pushed back to Q1 2010, but hopefully it releases early 2010 and still be classed as a holiday release. Also, Super Mario Galaxy and Metroid Other M will hopefully release within 1-2 weeks of the slated 1/1/10 release date, meaning they are still this years holiday period releases as I doubt they will release on new years day. Without definite confirmation of release dates, the assumption was made by the writer that these games would slot into this years holiday period.

http://www.gamestracker.com... - 1/1/10

http://www.gamestracker.com... - 1/1/10

http://www.gamestracker.com... - 2/11/09

http://www.gamestracker.com... - 17/11/09

http://www.gamestracker.com... - 17/11/09
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Nugan - 108 days 5 hours ago
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Those release dates are essentially placeholders, since Nintendo has not announced release dates for either title. I would be pretty surprised if you saw three marquee games (NSMBWii, SMG2, and M:OM) released within such a short time frame. Nintendo would be competing without itself and its own titles would be denying each other sales. Not a great business plan.

That's why Nintendo tends to stagger their major first party releases: One in the first quarter, one at the beginning of summer, one at the end of summer, one in early fall, one for the holidays. (This isn't concrete, but it's the general pattern.)
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Shnazzyone - 108 days 4 hours ago
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Just wanted to correct something... Red steels release is Mar 26, 2010 not nov 17 on top of Darkside chronicles.
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Laxman - 108 days 6 hours ago
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7 - Appology
Hi, im the writter who wrote the article in question, and i would just like to say i am sorry for the misleading information in it. I was under the impression the games were going to be released. Please visit:
http://forums.n4g.com/tm.as...
for my whole appology. Thank you.
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Nugan - 108 days 5 hours ago
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I see no reason to apologize. It was an honest mistake, and one you probably won't make again.

Don't take the criticism to heart. Keep writing.
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Shnazzyone - 108 days 4 hours ago
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At least spell check your apology! Writter? informitive?!? appology?!?!?!??!?! I'm sorry to be an A**hole. But step number 1 when defending your site as a place that won't get the story wrong is to make sure that even if your grammar isn't quite right that you at least spell everything right. C'mon!!!
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CraigGOA - 108 days 5 hours ago
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Good comment Nugan.
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CraigGOA - 108 days 3 hours ago
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9 - article adjustments
The 3 games that have caused a bit of stir in terms of their release dates have been changed. Hopefully this new list better reflects the top 5 Wii games coming in the next few months.
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