Following the Wii launch announcements earlier on, we thought you might be interested to see the titles that our Japanese brothers n’ sisters-in-games will be laying down their hard-earned Yen to play come launch day. It’s markedly different to the list of games we expect to be playing, but is interesting all the same. Here it is:

• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo)
• Elebits (Konami)
• Red Steel (Ubisoft)
• Wario Ware: Smooth Moves (Nintendo)
• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz (Sega)
• Wii Sports (Nintendo – it will not be bundled with the hardware in Japan)
• Trauma Centre: Second Opinion (Atlus)
• Swing Golf Pangya (Tecmo)
• SD Gundam Revolution (Namco Bandai)
• Hajimete no Wii (Nintendo)
• Kororinpa (Hudson)
• Necro-Nesia (Spike)
• Tamagotchi no Pika Pika Daitouryou! (Namco Bandai)
• Tatsujin Festival (Namco/Bandai)
• Wing Island (Hudson)

• Pokemon Battle Revolution will follow very shortly after launch.

Also, we strongly recommend that you take a butcher’s at this link when you’ve a spare moment. It’s Nintendo Japan’s Wii preview showreel and features many of the big titles that we’ve been banging on about these last few months, as well as revealing a bunch of new ones that we’ve absolutely no idea about. Indeed, there seems to be more of the latter than the former. They’re all good, though: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/topics/wii_preview/movie/lineup.html