It finally seems like the 3DS has gotten its legs underneath it, even as the Wii’s glory days fade further into the rear view. But there’s an unspecified while yet until the Wii U hits retail shelves and Nintendo’s still got a bunch of software coming on the home console and handheld fronts. The company’s released a partial list of games that will be out in early 2012 and highlights include Kid Icarus: Uprising, Resident Evil Revelations and Rhythm Heaven Fever. They’re also announcing that the Circle Pad Pro will be available in the United States on February 7 for $US20.
Nintendo 3DS
2K Play
Nicktoons MLB 3D – March
Capcom
Resident Evil® Revelations – Feb. 7
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
METAL GEAR SOLID® 3D Snake Eater – Q1
Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 – January
NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.
TEKKEN 3D Prime Edition™ – February
Tales of the Abyss® – Feb. 14
Nintendo
Kid Icarus: Uprising – March 23
Published by SEGA® of America
Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games™ – Feb. 14
SEGA® of America
CRUSH™3D – Q1
Ubisoft
NCIS The Video Game (Based on the TV Series) – March 6
Horses 3D – March 6
Funky Barn – Q1
Rayman® Origins – Q1
Nintendo eShop
Collecting Smiles
Colors! 3D – Q1
Nicalis
VVVVVV – Q1
NightSky – Q1
Nintendo
Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword – Q1
Dillon’s Rolling Western – Q1
Kirby’s Block Ball™ – Q1
Renegade Kid
Mutant Mudds – Q1
Shin’en Multimedia
Fun! Fun! Minigolf TOUCH – Q1
Jett Rocket Super Surf – Q1
WayForward
Mighty Switch Force – Q1
Zen Studios
Zen Pinball – Q1
Wii
2K Sports
MLB 2K12 – March 6
GameMill Entertainment
Country Dance™ Special Edition – Feb. 1
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
Karaoke Joysound – Q1
Nintendo
Rhythm Heaven Fever – Feb. 13
PokéPark 2: Wonders Beyond – Feb. 27
Mario Party 9 – March 11
WiiWare™
Nicalis
La Mulana – Q1
Nintendo DS™ Family
2K Sports
MLB 2K12 – March 6
ATLUS
Shin Megami Tensei®: Devil Survivor™ 2 – February
GameMill Entertainment
Silverlicious™ – March 20
Xia Xia™ – March 20
Gogo’s Crazy Bones™ – March 20
Mentor Interactive
Chess for Kids – Feb. 14
NARABA: The Labyrinth of Light – Feb. 21
NARABA: The Mysterious Palace – Feb. 21
Nintendo DSiWare™
Cosmigo
Box Pusher – Q1
Cypronia
Cake Ninja – Q1
Which games on the list are must-buys for you?
Tristan Damen
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 7:31 AMWould love to see a release schedule for the Virtual Console. The drip feed of mediocre games is starting to kill me.
MrBS
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 8:27 AMWell for one that doesn’t like Ninty mascot games looks like my Wii/3DS are going to be wanting besides a couple games well into next year.
Ruen
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:06 AMIs it worrying that the game I’m most excited for out of that entire list is VVVVVV?
Matt
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:20 AMThese definitely look like US release dates – as an example, Tales of the Abyss for 3DS came out here on November 24th because we got it ahead of the US release.
Is this post just missing the little US flag that used to appear on cross-posts from American Kotaku, or are you guys not doing those flags anymore?
Sage
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 11:01 AMYeah, you’re right.
Same deal with the NCIS game, I remember seeing that already.
ba!
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 11:10 AMI don’t usually look forward to Mario Party, but when i play them..they’re always great. My and my old house mates played the shit out of Mario Party 8.
Post Modern Warfare
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 1:04 PMI’ve had a damn 3DS for under a month and I’m already starved for games (clocked Mario 3D, Zelda, Mario Kart, Rayman, Sonic, Ghost Recon) and I desperately need some more titles.
Kid Icarus is such an unknown quantity at this point, but it looks nice at least.
Rayman Origins mos def, especially if It’s as pretty as the console versions (I never got around to playing the Wii version but I assume it’ll be a port of that)
Resident Evil fer sure.
Snake Eater also fer sure. It was my favorite ps2 game ever and I would love to experience it again.
Matt
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 6:09 PMWant Mario Party and Luigis Mansion 2 3DS release dates!
Fimbulvetr
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 6:10 PMA damn shame Fire Emblem 12 isn’t on that list.