Wii 2007 upcoming release titles

Today's news seems to be highly Wii related, this new continues to flood out of Japan. Here is a list of some upcoming 2007 release titles...

The list, although preliminary, contains many titles that used to be listed under GameCube. Does this mean we'll see them on both systems like Zelda? No word on that yet, but here is the Wii release list of '07 as reported by 1up.com:

• Dragon Quest Swords
• Sword of Legendia (potential Tales of Legendia spin-off) (Namco Bandai)
• Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (Square Enix)
• "Gun Shooting" (presumably Virtua Cop) (Sega)
• Pac-Man Carnival (Namco Bandai)
• Gundam (Namco Bandai)
• Bomberman Land (Hudson)
• Legend of the River King (Natsume)
• Harvest Moon (Natsume)
• Rayman (Ubisoft)
• Excite Truck (January) (Nintendo
• Fire Emblem (February) (Nintendo)
• Wii Big Brain Academy (Spring) (Nintendo)
• Disaster (Spring) (Nintendo)
• Project HAMMER (Nintendo)
• Super Paper Mario (former GC title) (Nintendo)
• Wii Music 2007 (Nintendo)
• Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo)
• Smash Bros X (HAL/Nintendo)
• Famicom Wars W (Battalion Wars) (Nintendo)
• Donkey Kong Barrel Jet Race (former GC title) (Nintendo)
• Forever Blue (Nintendo)
• Mario Strikers Charged (Nintendo)
• Mario Party 8 (Nintendo)
• Metroid Prime 3 Corruption (Nintendo)
• Eye Shield 21 (Nintendo)
• Animal Crossing (Nintendo)
• Kirby (presumably former GC title) (Nintendo)

Not a bad list of games. Notice Wii Big Brain Academy? Apparently those Nintendo DS games that performed well on the market will be getting their on Wii titles as well. Not surprising considering their success with the capabilities of the DS using the "wii-mote" will offer new challenges and fun.

And this is the new U.S Wii Box as it will be seen in stores: