Nintendo Co., Ltd. President Satoru Iwata announced three new Wii games are in the works. The first, “Tower of Pandora: Until I Return To Your Side,” Iwata mentions will be released during the first half of the year in Japan. An official site for the game has opened up and only shows a photo of a female and has accompanying background music. Two more familiar franchises were also announced, Kirby and Rhythm Heaven, both for Wii as well. Brief gameplay videos of the two games were released. Kirby is being developed by HAL.
Kirby (Wii)
http://www.gamevideos.net/ngvids/kirbywii.flv
Rhythm Heaven (Wii)
http://www.gamevideos.net/ngvids/rtengoku.flv
On other subjects, Iwata mentioned that The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword is in its final phases of development, but that Ocarina of Time for 3DS will probably be released first. Although no new DS games were announced, Pokemon Typing DS with Bluetooth keyboard got a vague release date of April in Japan. Iwata also mentioned there are various Pokemon projects in the works for Wii and 3DS, but nothing specific.
In third party news, two titles, Just Dance 2 and 007 Goldeneye, will be localized by Nintendo for the Japanese market.
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