Nintendo has officially announced some new/upcoming releases for its systems, which are due this financial quarter.
Not only have they announced the release date for the much anticipated 3D version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (for their new 3DS,) but a new iteration of the very popular Wii mini-game collection, Wii Play, has also been revealed. Wii Play: Motion will ship with twelve new mini-games and a Wii Remote Plus controller, that combines the Motion Plus peripheral with a regular Wiimote. It will be released on June 13th. Ocarina of Time 3D will follow six days later with a release date of June 19th, 2011. Both games are sure to sell like hotcakes.
Popular indie game, Cave Story, will also be released on the Nintendo 3DS hand-held device. It will ship on June 28th, and will be referred to as Cave Story 3D. And the Wii will not be left out with Mystery Case Files: Dust to Dust releasing on June 28th for the motion-sensing platform.
Here is a list of the other release date announcements and reveals from Nintendo’s press release. Of course, take note of the fact that these dates can change:
Wii:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Stealth Force Edition – June 14 (Activision)
Get Fit With Mel B – Spring (Deep Silver, Inc.)
LEGO: Pirates of the Caribbean – May (Disney Interactive Studios)
Cars 2: The Video Game – Spring (Disney-Pixar)
Reader Rabbit Titles – April (Graffiti Entertainment)
Karaoke Revolution Glee: Volume 2 – Spring (Konami)
ExerBeat – April 26 (Namco-Bandai Games America Inc.)
The Conduit 2 – April 12 (SEGA)
Thor: God of Thunder – May 3 (SEGA)
Rio – April 12 (THQ Inc.)
SpongeBob Squigglepants – April 12 (THQ Inc.)
Kung-Fu Panda 2 – May 4 (THQ Inc.)
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters – June 7 (Warner Bros. Interactive)
Nintendo DS Family:
Squinkies – April 12 (Activision)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Autobots – June 14 (Activision)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon: Decepticons – June 14 (Activision)
Loving Life With Hello Kitty and Friends – May 10 (Bergasia Lightweight LLC)
Duke Nukem: Critical Mass – Q2 (Deep Silver)
LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game – May (Disney Interactive Studios)
Cars 2: The Video Game – Summer (Disney-Pixar)
Match 3 Madness – May 3 (Easy Interactive)
Picture Puzzle Collection – May 17 (Easy Interactive)
Hollywood Files – June 14 (Easy Interactive)
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s World Championship 2011 – May 10 (Konami)
Cake Mania Main Street – May (Majesco Entertainment)
Thor™: God of Thunder – May 3 (SEGA)
Rio – April 12 (THQ Inc.)
Paws & Claws Pampered Pets 2™ – April 12 (THQ Inc.)
Kung Fu Panda® 2 – May 24 (THQ Inc.)
LEGO® Battles: Ninjago – Spring (Warner Bros. Interactive)
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters – June 7 (Warner Bros. Interactive)
Transformers™: Dark of the Moon™ Stealth Force Edition 3D – June 14 (Activision)
BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II – May 24 (Aksys Games Localization, Inc.)
Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion – May 24 (Crave Games)
Dream Trigger™ 3D – April (D3 Publisher)
LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game – May (Disney Interactive Studios)
DualPenSports™ – May (Namco-Bandai Games America)
PAC-MAN® & Galaga® DIMENSIONS – June (Namco-Bandai Games America)
The Legend of Zelda™: Ocarina of Time™ 3D – June 19 (Nintendo)
Cave Story 3D – June 28 (NIS America, Inc.)
DEAD OR ALIVE® Dimensions – May (Tecmo Koei Corp.)
SpongeBob SquigglePants – May 17 (THQ Inc.)
Driver® Renegade – Spring (Ubisoft Entertainment)
Rabbids® Travel in Time – April 10 (Ubisoft Entertainment)
Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell® 3D – April 10 (Ubisoft Entertainment)
James Noir’s Hollywood Crimes™ – June 7 (Ubisoft Entertainment)
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters – June 7 (Warner Bros. Entertainment)
Needless to say, there’s a lot to look forward to from Nintendo.