Nintendo gives first European DSi game date
Rhythm Paradise coming on May 1st
For perhaps the first time in gaming history a console is being released here before it is in the US. That console, of course, is the DSi, and we’re getting it two days before our transatlantic kinsmen.
Which is all well and good (assuming the hardware update has tickled your fancy with a touchscreen stylus), but what about the games to show off what Nintendo’s new handheld can do?
Well, Nintendo’s just put out its release dates for the second quarter of 2009, and amidst the slew of Wii games and hot DS titles like GTA: Chinatown Wars, Pokemon Platinum and Ghostbusters is squirreled the first European (and US) DSi-specific game, Rhythm Paradise, slated for a May 1st release. (We reviewed the Japanese version back in September 2008.)
We might be getting the console first, but Rhythm Paradise (also known as Rhythm Heaven) will be a DSi launch title over in the US, so our cousins will have something to do with their new games machine a few weeks before us.
Harumph.
Oh well. Here’s a list of what else is happening in DS town.
- EA SPORTS Football Academy (EA) 20 March
- Henry Hatsworth (EA) 20 March
- THINK Sinnestrainer (DTP Young Entertainment) 20 March
- Imagine Doctor (Ubisoft) 26 March
- Imagine Gourmet Chef (Ubisoft) 26 March
- My English Coach 2009 (Ubisoft) 26 March
- Monsters vs. Alien (Activision) March
- Cake Mania 2 (Majesco) April
- Dungeon Raiders (Focus Home Interactive) April
- Impossible Mission (System 3) April
- Diabolik: The Original Sin (Blackbean/Lago) April
- Rhythm Paradise (Nintendo) 1 May
- Fast Food Panic (Nobilis) 13 May
- Pokémon Platinum Version (Nintendo) 22 May
- PDC World Championship Darts (Oxygen) May
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Activision) May
- Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine? bundled with two Activity Meters (Nintendo) 5 June 2009
- Space Invaders Extreme Remix (Square-Enix) 5 June
- Ghostbusters (Atari) 19 June
- Overlords: Minions (Codemasters) June
- Guitar Hero On Tour: Modern Hits (Activision) June
- Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Activision) June
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen AUTOBOTS (Activision) June
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen DECEPTICONS (Activision) June
- Disgaea DS (Square-Enix) SPRING
- FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: Echoes of Time (Square-Enix) SPRING
- VALKYRIE PROFILE: Covenant of the Plume (Square-Enix) SPRING
- My Happy Kitchen (Ubisoft) Q2
- The Humans (Deep Silver) Q2
- Yamaha Super Cross (Zoo Digital) Q2
