More Digital Wii Titles Coming to Wii U in Japan, 30 Percent Off for My Nintendo Members

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by Danny Bivens - July 21, 2016, 4:20 am EDT
Total comments: 3 Source: NCL

The Wii digital software library continues to grow in Japan.

Ten more Wii titles are coming to the Wii U eShop over a five week period starting on July 27 in Japan. For My Nintendo account holders, Nintendo is offering 30 percent off of these games through coupons they will be sending out to email addresses associated with accounts. These coupons will start arriving closer to the release of the games. Members can take advantage of the discount for two weeks following the release of each title. With the discount, users will be paying 1,890 yen, 810 yen off of the standard price of 2,700 yen, for each game. The full list of titles and release dates are below. Currently, this is limited to Japan.

Week One - from July 27

Xenoblade Chronicles

Rhythm Heaven Fever

Week Two - from August 3

Super Paper Mario

Project Zero 2: Wii Edition

Week Three - from August 9

Kirby's Epic Yarn

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

Week Four - from August 17

Mario Strikers Charged

Mario Super Sluggers

Week Five - from August 24

Wario Land: Shake It!

Mario Sports Mix

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Talkback

OedoJuly 22, 2016

I'm glad Nintendo is doing something like this in any capacity given the dearth of Wii U releases the second half of this year. I hope they get a little more creative with their selection if they do something like this for North America and Europe though. Week one is fantastic, but after that it's not the most inspired list of games. That's not to say that any of those are bad games, but most of them have a lot of copies floating around in the wild and can be had for a decent price already, and just don't seem that exciting in general.

ShayminDonald Theriault, News EditorJuly 22, 2016

I think the only games of the 10 that aren't out in either NA or Europe are Rhythm Heaven Fever and the Project Zero game (which I will be stunned if that gets localized).

ejamerJuly 22, 2016

Quote from: Shaymin

I think the only games of the 10 that aren't out in either NA or Europe are Rhythm Heaven Fever and the Project Zero game (which I will be stunned if that gets localized).

Project Zero 2 was localized for Europe, they just never bothered to release it for North America. They could pretty much just dump it as is on the eShop though.

I'd be shocked if Project Zero 4 was localized though. Thankfully there was a nice fan translation done for it... so anyone with a modded Wii can play the game.

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