Nintendo announces first wave of DSi Ware games
We're not missing much
This just in from Japan: Nintendo, via the platform of games magazine Famitsu, has revealed the first raft of DSi Ware games. Chances are, this doesn’t affect you in the slightest. You don’t own a DSi, and won’t for several months. Even then, it’s likely that an entirely different set of games will be available at launch, and the ones I’m about to tell you about will be old news.
Still, we’re nothing if not a site that caters for English-speaking people who live in Japan and own a DSi, however small that demographic might be, so here’s a list (taken from Kotaku, where an apparently bilingual blogger was kind enough to translate.)
"Ugoku Memo Pad (Moving Memo Pad) (Free)
Tori to Mame (Birds and Beans) (200 points)
Kami Hikouki (Paper Airplane) (200 points)
Chotto Magic Taizen (Shaffuru game, Funny Face, Osoroshii suuji (A Little Bit of Magic Taizen: Shuffle Card Tricks, Funny Face, and Scary Numbers) (200 points)
Art Style Aquario (500 points)
Art Style Decode (500 points)
Chotto Dr. Mario (A Little Bit of Dr. Mario) (500 points)
Utsusu! Made in Wario (500 points)
Chotto Asobi Taizen: Otegaru Trump (A Little Bit of Asobi Taizen: A couple of card games) (500 points)
Chotto DSi Brain Training: Written 800 points
Chotto DSi Brain Training: Math 800 points"
The ‘points’ are of course DSi points, which are controversially distinct from the Wii points that you can spend on Wii Ware.
Several of these games use the DSi’s camera, including Made in Wario and both Brain Training titles. Others, disappointingly, are taken from existing games - Otegaru Trump is a section from Asobi Taizen, a budget first party card and boardgame collection, and Chotto Dr Mario is an abridged version of the full game.
Apparently, 'Chotto' means 'a bit of.'
From this distance, it looks like a pretty underwhelming line-up, but if DSi Ware proves to be a profitable retail channel over the coming months there’s every chance that we’ll have something better waiting for us when the DSi arrives in Europe. Here’s hoping.
