14 DAY TRIAL // 124 titles for Nintendo's Wii and DS is a pretty big lineup, even for Nintendo. But part of those titles may be confirmed through this translated press release, via The Platformers: "Nikkei announced today that Nintendo has purchased development house "Monolith" from Japanese powerhouse Namco-Bandai. Monolith Soft will be owned wholly by Nintendo."
However, Monolith stands for more than just one development studio. The site says that there is also "...Monolith Soft, the Japanese company," which is best known for Baten Kaitos, Xenosaga, and Disaster: Day of Crisis - an upcoming title for Nintendo's next-gen system, the Wii. "There is a separate unrelated Monolith in America," The Platformers continues," known as Monolith Productions. This Monolith worked on F.E.A.R, Condemnded, and The Matrix Online, just to name a few."
By now you must be as confused as a bat without ears, but not to worry, it's Monolith Soft that Nintendo's acquiring, the Japanese company responsible for the Nintendo GameCube RPG title Baten Kaitos, published by Namco. If all this is accurate, we may have just found the answer to... let's say 8 or 9 of the 45 games announced for the Wii.
But that leaves 30 and something other games to be assigned to other developers. OK, Nintendo too, but not all of them can become Mario titles: "Mario Steals Wario's Hat" or, "Mario Stories: Pauline Secretly Loved Wario" and why not "Mario Drag Racing: Subaru and Mitsubishi Edition," for the "If it's diversity they want, it's diversity they'll get" kind of thing. I'm not saying that Nintendo can only come up with Mario titles; it's just that they do.
What about the DS? Are all of them going to be Zelda and Pokemon sequels? Even so, no one would mind I'm sure... It's what the DS is all about anyway.