Nintendo Blurts Out an Absurd Number of 3DS, Wii, DS Release Dates

The Wii U may still be a ways off from having any sort of concrete release date or identifiable games beyond the tech demo-y amusements shown at E3, and the third-party ports we still know little-to-nothing about, but that doesn't mean Nintendo ain't got some games coming over the course of the next year. After all, the console-maker does still have the 3DS, DS, original Wii, and various digital platforms still hanging around, ready to play some damn video games.

Nintendo has released the upcoming release schedule for all of its various platforms, at least insofar as it's currently known. Plenty of big titles, such as The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Super Mario 3DS, still have semi-nebulous "Holiday" release dates. However, a few biggies now have firmer dates, the highlights of which I'll run down for you before sending you off into the barely navigable wasteland of Nintendo's full lists.

On the 3DS front, Star Fox 64 has now been locked into the admittedly awkward release date for a flight-based game of September 11th. That's the only Nintendo-published game to get a firm release at this juncture, but multiple third-party titles, such as Shin Megami Tensei :Devil Survivor Overclocked (August 23rd), James Noir's Hollywood Crimes (August 30th) and Rayman Origins (March 13th, 2012) have been locked in.

On the regular ass regular DS, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 has settled on an August 28th release, while Kirby Mass Attack will drop on September 19th.

Not a ton to report on the Wii front, though feel free to scribble down on your calendar that Ubisoft plans to release Smurfs Dance Party to stores on July 19th, and, in a clear effort to tap into the too-long-ignored "unemployed shut-in with an unhealthy addiction to the Game Show Network" audience, will drop both Family Feud and Price is Right games on September 27th. Also, a company called Game Mill Publishing is releasing a game called Country Dance 2 on November 1st. I can't confirm or deny whether this is the same Game Mill that released Big Rigs, but regardless, I totally expect to see a copy of that mailed overnight to me from the Whiskey San Francisco offices, with a note attached that reads "DO THE JOB."

If you'd like to see an insanely long list of things nebulously listed as "HOLIDAY" or "2012" and sometimes even "TBA," go ahead and check out the full list of dates below. I've attempted to reformat this into semi-readable text (and even put Nintendo's first-party business up top, defying their rigid alphabetical formatting), but even still, I can barely deal with this list. For serious guys, it's super long.

Nintendo

3DS:

• The Legend of Zelda™: Ocarina of Time™ 3D June 19
• Star Fox 64™ 3D Sept. 11
• Kid Icarus™: Uprising Holiday
• Mario Kart™ Holiday
• Super Mario™ Holiday
• LEGO® City Stories™ 2012
• Luigi's Mansion™ 2 2012
• Animal Crossing™ TBA
• Paper Mario™ TBA

Wii:

• Wii Play: Motion -- June 13
• Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident -- June 27
• Kirby Wii -- Fall
• Fortune Street -- Holiday
• The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword -- Holiday
• Mario Party 9 -- TBA
• Rhythm Heaven -- TBA

DS:

• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 -- Aug. 28
• Kirby Mass Attack -- Sept. 19
• Professor Layton and the Last Specter -- Fall
• Super Fossil Fighters -- Holiday

2K Play

Wii:

• Nicktoons MLB -- August
• Nickelodeon Dance -- November

DS:

• Nicktoons MLB -- August
• Dora and Kai-Lan's Pet Shelter -- November
• Team Umizoomi -- November

Activision

3DS:

• Transformers: Dark of the Moon™ June
• Skylanders Spyro's Adventure™ Oct. 16
• Generator Rex: Agent of Providence October
• Spider-Man™: Edge of Time Fall

Wii:

• Transformers: Dark of the Moon -- June
• Skylanders Spyro's Adventure -- Oct. 16
• Generator Rex: Agent of Providence -- October
• Spider-Man: Edge of Time -- Fall
• X-Men: Destiny -- Fall

DS:

• Transformers: Dark of the Moon -- June
• Generator Rex: Agent of Providence -- October
• Zoobles -- November
• X-Men: Destiny -- Fall
• Spider-Man: Edge of Time -- Fall
• Wappy Dog -- Holiday

Aksys Games

3DS:

• BIT.TRIP SAGA End of Q3

ATLUS

3DS:

• MAHJONG CUB3D™ July 19
• Shin Megami Tensei® :Devil Survivor Overclocked™ Aug. 23

DS:

• Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 -- Q1 2012

Capcom

3DS:

• RESIDENT EVIL®: THE MERCENARIES 3D June 28
• RESIDENT EVIL: Revelations TBA

D3 Publisher

3DS:

• Angler's Club: Ultimate Bass Fishing™ 3D Summer
• BEN 10™ GALACTIC RACING Fall

Wii:

• Ben 10 Galactic Racing -- Fall

DS:

• Ben 10 Triple Pack -- Summer
• Ben 10 Galactic Racing -- Fall

Deep Silver

Wii:

• Winter Stars -- Q4 2011

Disney Interactive

Wii:

• Cars 2: The Video Game -- June 21
• Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension -- Aug. 2
• Disney Universe -- Fall

DS:

• Cars 2: The Video Game -- June 21
• Phineas & Ferb: Across the Second Dimension -- Aug. 2

Electronic Arts

3DS:

• Need for Speed™ The Run Nov. 15
• FIFA Soccer 12 Fall
• The Sims™ 3 Pets Fall

Wii:

• Madden NFL 12 -- Aug. 30
• FAMILY GAME NIGHT 4: The Game Show -- October
• FAMILY GAME NIGHT Fun Pack -- October
• MONOPOLY Collection -- October
• TRIVIAL PURSUIT Bet You Know It -- October
• Need for Speed The Run -- Nov. 1

DS:

• Madden NFL Football -- March

GameMill Entertainment

Wii:

• Country Dance 2 -- Nov. 1

DS:

• Moxie Girlz -- Nov. 1
• Pillow Pets -- Nov. 1

Konami

3DS:

• Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knights Summer
• Frogger 3D Fall
• Nikoli Pencil Puzzle Fall
• METAL GEAR SOLID 3D SNAKE EATER Winter

Wii:

• DanceDanceRevolution II -- Fall
• Karaoke Revolution Glee: Volume 3 -- Fall

DS:

• Beyblade Metal Masters -- Fall

Majesco Entertainment

3DS:

• Face Racers Photo Finish Sept. 6
• The Hidden Oct. 4
• Cooking Mama 4 Kitchen Magic Oct. 11
• Pet Zombies Oct. 11
• Nano Assault Nov. 15

Wii:

• Zumba Fitness 2 -- Nov. 8

DS:

• Camping Mama Outdoor Adventures -- Sept. 6

Mentor Interactive

Wii:

• ThinkSMART Crazy Machines -- June 7
• DS:
• ThinkSMART Crazy Machines -- June 7
• ThinkSMART Labyrinth -- June 7
• ThinkSMART Scotland Yard -- June 7
• ThinkSMART Chess for Kids -- September
• ThinkSMART NARABA: The Labyrinth of Light -- October
• ThinkSMART NARABA: The Mysterious Palace -- October

Namco Bandai

3DS:

• ACE COMBAT® 3D (working title) 2011
• DualPenSports™ 2011
• PAC-MAN® & GALAGA® DIMENSIONS 2011
• PAC-MAN Party™ 2011
• Tales of the Abyss ® TBA
• TEKKEN ®3D (working title) TBA

Wii:

• Go Vacation -- Fall
• Power Rangers Samurai -- Fall 2011

DS:

• Power Rangers Samurai -- Fall 2011

NIS America

3DS:

• Cave Story 3D Aug. 9

Sega

3DS:

• CRUSH™ 3D Sept. 6
• Shinobi™ September
• Captain America™: Super Soldier™Fall
• Thor™: God of Thunder Fall
• Sonic Generations™ November
• Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games™ February 2012
• Square Enix, Inc. Heroes of Ruin™ Early 2012

Wii:

• Captain America: Super Solider -- July 19
• Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games -- November

DS:

• Captain America: Super Soldier -- July 19

Tecmo Koei

Wii:

• Champion Jockey: G1 Jockey & Gallop Racer -- Q4 2011

Telegames

DS:

• Ultimate Card Games -- Q4
• Ultimate Brain Games -- Q1 2012

Tetris Online, Inc.

3DS

• Tetris® October

THQ

3DS:

• WWE®'12 Nov. 22

Wii:

• UFC Personal Trainer -- June 28
• WWE 12 -- Nov. 22

Ubisoft

3DS:

• Cubic Ninja™ June 14
• Petz Fantasy™ 3D June 21
• Driver® Renegade Aug. 30
• James Noir's Hollywood Crimes™ Aug. 30
• Puzzler Mind Gym (working title) Sept. 6
• Imagine® Fashion Designer Oct. 11
• Cute Puppies Oct. 25
• Horses 3D Oct. 25
• Imagine® Babyz 3D Oct. 25
• Michael Jackson The Experience Oct. 25
• NCIS (working title) Oct. 25
• Raving Rabbids® 5 (working title) Nov. 1
• Farm (working title) Nov. 15
• The Adventures of Tintin (working title) Dec. 6
• Rayman® Origins (working title) March 13, 2012

Wii:

• The Smurfs Dance Party -- July 19
• Family Feud 2012 (working title) -- Sept. 27
• The Price is Right Decades -- Sept. 27
• Just Dance 3 -- Fall
• The Adventures of Tintin (working title) Dec. 6

DS:

• The Smurfs -- July 19

WB Interactive

3DS:

• Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters June 7
• Happy Feet Two™: The Videogame Fall
• LEGO® Harry Potter™ : Years 5-7 Holiday

Wii:

• Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters -- June 7
• Sesame Street: Ready, Set, Grover! -- Summer
• Happy Feet Two – The Videogame -- Fall

DS:

• Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters -- June 7
• Sesame Street: Ready, Set, Grover! -- Summer
• Happy Feet Two – The Videogame -- Fall
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 -- Holiday

eShop

Gameloft

• Let's Golf! 3D Summer

SEGA

• Columns™ Summer
• Dragon Crystal™ Summer
• Shinobi™ Summer
• Sonic Drift™ 2 Summer
• Sonic The Hedgehog: Triple Trouble™ Summer
• Nintendo Picture Lives! TBA
• The Rolling Western™ TBA

WiiWare

• La-Mulana -- Summer
• MotoHeroz -- Summer

DSiWare

• AfterZoom -- July 14
• Pro Jumper! Chimaki's Hot Spring Tour Guilty Gear Tangent -- June 23
• Moto eXtreme -- June 30
• Zoonies -- Escape from Makatu -- Summer
• House, M.D. -- Blue Meanie -- August
• House, M.D. -- Skull & Bones -- November

Yay for this

EDIT: I already had this quest

That is a lot.

Its about time they brought out a new Paper Mario game. Wait, its on the 3DS? God dommot nintendo.

Smurfs Dance Party? The heck.

Who comes up with these things?

You made me think that Rhythm Heaven had gotten a release date, Navarro. And for that, I will never forgive you.

Releasing a flight combat game on the 10th anniversary of 9/11?

Who wants to bet that this'll somehow be turned into some huge controversy by CNN/Fox News/etc.?

" Paper Mario™ TBA" 
Goddammit.

Pillow Pets is going to have their own game, wtf?

Peppy and Slippy are planning to fly two fully loaded Arwings into our 3DS consoles this September 11th!

When does 4 Swords come out for free?

That's a bit sad. The games shown at E3 sold me on a 3DS, but it looks like they'll be coming out right in the middle of the holiday rush or later. Hopefully I'll still be interested in the system during the holidays or afterwards - I'd have one now if there was anything decent to play on it.

Angler's Club: Ultimate Bass Fishing™ 3D Summer?

Finally something to push 3DS hardware sales.

Actually, I love a good fishing game, so I'm going to look into this.

Peppy and Slippy are planning to fly two fully loaded Arwings into our 3DS consoles this September 11th!

The Price is Right DECADES? I'm honestly interested in what the hell that is.

Hell yeah, I need more Kirby!

Hahah never expected Alex to acknowledge Big Rigs again. One of the best reviews he's ever done.

* sees lack of Fire Emblem, sees definite release for a Devil Survivor port* You have betrayed me, gamers. You have betrayed your King. You who have brought about this greatest of crimes, you have been banished from my sight. BEGONE, MONSTROUS VERMIN!!!

During Nintendo's conference, they said Four Swords would be coming as a free downloadable (I believe it was DSi?) in the fall. Didn't see that one here though.

Seriously? Are they really releasing StarFox on Sep.11? Didn't ANYONE at Nintendo react at all? Not that it really bothers me (I'm not american) but it seems that its a little tactless to release a flight combat game that exact date.

@CookieMonster said:

Its about time they brought out a new Paper Mario game. Wait, its on the 3DS? God dommot nintendo.

Oh no... they're releasing games for that new platform that people complain there are no games for....

@CookieMonster: I believe it's only a port of Paper Mario N64.

@CookieMonster said:

Its about time they brought out a new Paper Mario game. Wait, its on the 3DS? God dommot nintendo.

Oh no... they're releasing games for that new platform that people complain there are no games for....

During Nintendo's conference, they said Four Swords would be coming as a free downloadable (I believe it was DSi?) in the fall. Didn't see that one here though.

  DO THE JOB!

Why does any of this matter? Its a release date for a fucking video game. Its not like Al Quaeda flew spaceships into our shit. Its not even a game about planes, or towers, or terrorism or anything. Its just a fucking date that a video game is coming out on that happens to be the anniversary of an American tragedy. Nobody else cares because there's not even a small resemblance of any direct correlation.

The link for James Noir's Hollywood Crimes goes to the new Rayman game, might wanna fix that >.>

Country Dance 2. Game. Of. The. Year.

DS seems to only have movie & TV games. Only interesting game on the DS seems to be Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2, which as they still haven't released the first on in the UK means I should probably throw my DS in the bin. Guess I will have to decide on a 3DS (once they fix the battery life) or Vita or just using my iPhone for on the go gaming.

Only Alex could make me chuckle in an article about release dates.

woah release date TBA, way to work it, why even include that on the list.

That's an illegal amount of release dates.

Can someone explain this to me?

Sega: Square Enix, Inc. Heroes of Ruin™ Early 2012

Is that a typo or some crazy ass collaboration. Also, I thought Devil Survivor: Overclocked was coming out this month. Highly bummed out because of that.

Edit: Upon further reading, Animal Crossing TBA? Fuck that. But Sonic Drift 2 and Sonic Triple Trouble? Hot damn.

HOLY SHIT. That looks like some decent third party support to me although i only just glanced over the schedule

• Mario Kart™ Holiday
• Super Mario™ Holiday
• Animal Crossing™ TBA
• Paper Mario™ TBA

Funny thing is, Last night i was literally talking to a friend about the one 3ds title (Starfox) I was looking forward to didn't have a release date. Guess that answers my question. Finally I'll have a 3ds game on my 3ds.

Still no last story...They can keep xenoblade thow its crap

Devil Survivor 2? I knew about the Overclocked version for 3DS, but had that been announced already? I liked the first, could be interested in another.

@scraz said:

Still no last story...They can keep xenoblade thow its crap

wait until they have their usual event in the fall. or maybe even gamescom.

they're obviously not announcing something randomly in a release list when they were coy about it even coming out at all just five days before during effin E3.

@CookieMonster said:

Its about time they brought out a new Paper Mario game. Wait, its on the 3DS? God dommot nintendo.

Oh no... they're releasing games for that new platform that people complain there are no games for....

And again, only derivatives, rehashes and kids' games for the 3DS.

Dear developers: if you don't make the games, noone is going to buy something from you. Don't blame those R4 cards (too much).

Devil Survivor 2 and Rhythm Heaven are probably the last games I'm getting for either platform. I wonder if Atlus kept Takami Asano as the composer or did they go back to Shoji Meguro.

God damnit Gamemill. Country Dance 1 just came out like 2 months ago. And nobody bought it. I know, 'cause I had to put them out on the shelf and rearrange our wii section because we received so many copies of it.

Cave Story, Super Mario, Mario Kart, OoT, Starfox, Kid Icarus, Bit.Trip all out by year's end. Pretty happy with the 3DS's line-up. It remains to be seen if this will boost the system's success or if it continues to cough and sputter, but I'm glad that I took the plunge on the system at launch. That might seem crazy, but I've actually really enjoyed my time spent with the 3DS and have gotten more out of it than I did the DS in a similar timeframe.

That is a seriously long list.

BLEEERRRGGGGGHHHH!!!

The lack of Xenoblade or Last Story on that list makes me very sad.  Really Nintendo, the west still likes RPGs!