Talk:List of Wii games/Archive 3

Release Dates
I think release dates are worth mentioning.


 * Agreed, 100%, and regional sorting. I don't care about when Naruto is coming out in Japan.  That gives me no way to determine when it is coming out here, and is information that should be sorted out of my way... just like for a japanese-based reader, information about when Naruto is releasing in the US is useless and should be sorted out of his way.  JudgeX 16:47, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Sources for released games
Are sources for released games really necessary? I completely understand why we have them for when the games are in development, but after a point doesn't it become common knowledge enough that they don't need it? It's like citing a source that Harrison Ford was in Star Wars. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Honestly I don't think it needs its own box within the table in any case. K1Bond007 00:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I think if a game has been released, a source isn't so necessary. But a source column definitely is necessary now considering the vast majority of the games on the list are unreleased and every day there are clowns listing fake games. But if we do eliminate sources for released games, I'd rather not have an empty source box. Could we just shade those source boxes in black? --enbob89 01:10, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That seems like a good idea to me. Would would that look like? Perhaps the standard could be to remove confirmation links for games that already are released and have their own article? -- Exitmoose 01:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

PRICE of the games
I would like to know the price of the games (Specially the Zelda one and the Red Steel one), thanks.


 * Game prices vary from region to region, and more importantly, over time. Furthermore, there are sales and bundles that further complicate pricing. As such, they can be documented for each game on its respective page, but to put all of those details on this list would simply clutter everything up. I suggest we do not add this information to this page. — Aielyn 06:18, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Organization (Add Online Enabled Game Category?)
It would probably be a good idea to add another category to the list for games that are online in some capacity. Although since 'O' is currently in use maybe 'I' should be used for 'Intenet Enabled,' or something of that nature? ITZKooPA 18:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. Also, the number of players would be handy here rather than having to load each game's Wikipedia entry. Krisjohn 01:56, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Before we add any more categories, the page should be redesigned with a more organized layout, if anyone can come up with one. --enbob89 23:50, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Add "Aspect Ratio", "Resolution", and "Controller" columns
I think the list of games should add the columns "Aspect Ratio" and "Resolution" to the list of columns. Some games are made in 16x9, some 4x3 and the same goes for 480i/480p. Adding these two columns would make it easy to see what each game offers.

I also think it would be good to add a column that describes the number of controllers necessary for each game. The format could be wiimote/nunchuck/classic where 4/4/0 would say that 4 wiimotes, 4 nunchucks, and 0 classic controllers are required. Ajwillys 20:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I think the purpose of this list is just to list which games exist. Details should be put in the games' respective articles or in a Comparison of Wii Games article. I feel like the online column is out of place too. --enbob89 21:21, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Compare List of PlayStation 3 games or  List of Xbox 360 games or List of GameCube games, all of which have a similar format.  This list is already on the verge of being cluttered with too much information.  Title, Developer, Publisher, Release Date, and Region are more than enough. -- Exitmoose 00:31, 25 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I've successfully removed the online column without screwing up the entire page. I think a good alternative would be a List of Online Wii Games. Such an article would list all of the online games as well as useful information like how many players and WiiConnect24 usage. Just seems more organized and practical to me.--enbob89 23:47, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Exclusive list/table
Would it be a good idea to make a separate page for wii exclusives?

I would happily make one if I get the go ahead. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bfscr (talk • contribs) 21:52, 17 February 2007 (UTC).


 * I do not believe that a separate Wii-exclusive games is warranted; the idea of this list, or so it appears, is to offer a unifying list of Wii games, a one-stop shop. Additionally, the creation of a separate page can be confusing to casual Wikipedia browsers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.181.225.103 (talk) 06:09, 18 February 2007 (UTC).

List of Virtual Boy games table format.
The List of Virtual Boy games is a featured list on Wikipedia. It happens to be a list of console games for a particular console. I think since it's a featured list, this should be the baseline for all other lists of console games. The List of Nintendo 64 games is setup in a similar way. I've done some work for the List of PlayStation 1 games to make it look similar as well. Here's my question.

Should this be the standard on Wikipedia for lists of games for every console? Ceros 03:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I think that such a format may be suitable, but I can think of at least one modification I would make to the format to suit the Wii - namely, I would add a column listing the control setup (ie/ Wiimote only, Wiimote+nunchaku, Dual-Wiimote, Classic Controller, GameCube Controller, etc). However, I think we should wait until launch before modifying it, as it is a big task.


 * This seems unnecessary to me. As Ceros mentions, too much information would defeat the purpose of the "list". -- Exitmoose 07:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Furthermore, I would suggest that games that have been released be marked as such in some way, and the link proving its existence removed (such proof can be found via the game's wikipedia article, once the game has been released). — Aielyn 14:59, 14 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I always thought other details besides who, what, when, and where belonged in another table. You could name this table Comparison of Wii games. Someone at the talk page for playstation 3 games suggested there be a column for ps3 exclusives. I said that would be best placed in a table on it's own in which there could be all kinds of details such as first party, third party, 1080p, etc. I also mentioned the Comparison of audio codecs table which is the idea I have for this seperate page. Ceros 15:11, 14 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Agreed. The list already borders on containing too much information. Something like the List of Virtual Boy games seems like a great way to structure the list, and will get rid of the awkward parenthesis. -- Exitmoose 07:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Format as a table
Wouldn't it make it easier to view if the titles were listed as a table (preferably a sortable one)? There could be different columns in the title to denote things such as whether the games are online-capable, first party, etc., and maybe some room for notes if so desired. I myself want to see what unreleased Wii games there are; it's hard to do this when the games are grouped alphabetically. --Brandon Dilbeck 02:24, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I think this page is overdue for a reformatting. Table sounds nice. --enbob89 19:07, 12 January 2007 (UTC)


 * {| class="wikitable"

!Title!!Launch!!Released!!Exclusive!!Online!!''
 * Battalion Wars 2||||||||||
 * Elebits||||||||||
 * } How's that? 76.5.18.0 19:02, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Elebits||||||||||
 * } How's that? 76.5.18.0 19:02, 13 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks good. Except the released column should specify the regions in which the game has been released, not just a check or an x. So it should say US, EU, JP or AU (or any combination of those). There should be a column for the source link too.--enbob89 22:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)


 * {| class="wikitable"

!Title!!Released!!Developer!!Publisher!!Exclusive!!Online!!''Source
 * Metroid Prime 3: Corruption||||Retro Studios||Nintendo||||?|| Joystiq
 * Elebits (L)||JP NA||Konami||Konami|||||| IGN
 * 100 Bullets (C)(?)||||TBA||D3 Publisher||||?||IGN
 * }
 * Let me "kick this up a notch" BAM! Got rid of launches, there would be tons of red x's years from now.  FMF |  contact  23:43, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 100 Bullets (C)(?)||||TBA||D3 Publisher||||?||IGN
 * }
 * Let me "kick this up a notch" BAM! Got rid of launches, there would be tons of red x's years from now.  FMF |  contact  23:43, 13 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Good, but I think we should lose the party column. I feel like it's unnecessary. How about publisher/developer columns instead? Also, I think there should be a separate table for untitled games. Just more organized. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Enbob89 (talk • contribs) 00:23, 14 January 2007 (UTC).


 * Updated table, is that fine or should developer/publisher be separated? This chart just covers those that actually have titles. Someone can work on that later - I just want to focus on this and get it up.  FMF |  contact  18:14, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I think they should be separate only because there can be multiple developers on one game and having a developer column would make it more organized. Make that change and put it up. It looks great. Also, games that are tweaked versions of other games (Madden, Call of Duty 3) don't count as exclusives. Only games that are completely exclusive to Wii count. --enbob89 18:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * One more thing, about the legends. Those not already covered I have added, also I have a urge to switch the legends of online to (O) and other consoles to (C).  FMF |  contact  21:33, 14 January 2007 (UTC)


 * With the new format we don't need any of the tags, except maybe the launch tag. There are online, publisher and exclusive columns, so we don't need the tags at all. They would only be redundant clutter. --enbob89 04:46, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

I was considering purchasing a Wii and was hoping Wikipedia would have a good list of available games for me to research before buying. Unfortunately, this list of games sucks. The tables need to be separated by regional availability AND actual availability. For each region, planned games should have a table, and available games should have a table. It's not hard... but I can tell you what's retarded... having to search through a list of 50+ games for 10 games that are actually available. JudgeX 06:22, 28 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, a few things you said don't really make sense to me. What do you mean by "actual availability"? And do you mean to say that there should be a separate list of planned games for each region? Most games will become available in all regions; listing them four times (once for each region) would be pointless. While the current format isn't perfect, I wouldn't say it "sucks".


 * No, man, it sucks. Never before have I seen a list of planned titles sum itself up to be so useless.  Fact is, average readers don't care about the release dates in Japan, Europe, etc if they are from the United States (the converse is true as well).  If they do care about the release date other than for the region that they reside in, they can go to that region's planned releases.  Saying that "most games" will make it to EU or US is certainly true, but only by a narrow margin...  there are tons of Japan-centric games for every other nintendo system that never saw the light of day here, pending translation and or import.
 * By "actual availability", I meant there needs to be an updated list where a user can go to quickly see what titles should be available at the local distributor without having to skim through "upcoming" titles. This would be more useful to people researching the Wii... while planned releases can be seperate completely.  It really only requires 3 tables, ordered properly.  I propose the following:


 * Table 1: Region 1 Titles available via retail at time of edit sorted alphabetically, sub-section: upcoming titles with release dates.


 * Table 2: Region 2 Titles available via retail at time of edit sorted alphabetically, sub-section: upcoming titles with release dates.


 * And so on and so forth. This allows an extra tier of usefulness in that it includes the release dates for each region for the second part of each table...  Imagine the much improved look and feel of being able to go "what all titles are available on Wii...  oh, there they are, all 35 of them... and here's the article about this game... awesome." and then being like "I heard Domino Rally was coming out on the Wii, let me check... *scroll down* ... ooh, here it is, April 14.  That's awesome."  Currently, when you come and want to see what all titles are available, you'd better come ready to look for green checkmarks and copy out the title name into notepad or something if you want to see a list of what you can get right now... as this is a terrible mish-mash of crap...  even without the added research of getting an actual release date for each game for each region, it would be HUGELY beneficial to break it up like this.  I'm not saying the article is completely without use... I'm just saying it could use serious logical reworking... as I don't know of many people in any region other than Japan that care at all about "Noumiso Konekone Puzzle Takoron", which would almost undoubtedly be retitled for release here in the US anyway...making that game title completely worthless for EU and US readers, and putting yet another time-wasting and confounding entry into the overly humongous table. JudgeX 16:37, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I like the four table idea (North America, Japan, Europe, Australia), but it would make this article way too long as we'd be listing the same games for each table. If we did that, I think each table would be a separate article. Also, a lot of games are regionally ambiguous - nobody is really sure about the regions in which they'll come out. Another thing is, we don't know anything about retail availability, so it'll be released and unreleased. --enbob89 22:44, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, this would be cool too. Honestly I'd love to see someone step up and make the table more useful.  I would but i don't have time, and the current table is absolutely useless.  I've tried to use it 2 or 3 times now but cannot deal with sifting through that many "theoretically one day available to you" games.  I applaud the original work for being thorough and it is of ultimate use, but, without better formatting, it fails.  Honestly this would be about perfect if we could use a datagrid here on wikipedia ;).  Then we could just sort by columns. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JudgeX (talk • contribs) 15:30, 31 January 2007 (UTC).

How about this, separate the current table into two tables: one for released games and one for unreleased games. The former will specify regional availability and the latter will look like the existing format except no "released" column. --enbob89 18:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)


 * I can almost agree with this, but like I said, I would like for users to be able to see a list of games that they can get... so, if you sorted it by region and then alphabet for released games, that'd be perfect for me, but without that sorting you still have like 30 games that are unvailable to you appearing in a list of 55 games total, which means you're wasting like 50% of your time... I'm not nitpicking here, I just can't find a solid, currently updated list of games that I can actually go look for in my local market, and that's 1) ridiculous, 2) bad for nintendo, 3) bad for me... because without a list to go on, I simply don't have time to browse 5 or 6 stores every week for new games.  Wikipedia is the perfect place for game availability lists because of the ease of updating and the readily accessible links to NPOV wiki articles about the games and external reviews.  JudgeX 16:43, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

What is the need for the red "X" and the green check mark images? Wouldn't a simple "Yes" or "No" suffice for the "Exclusive" and "Online" catagories, and a listing of the regions a game is released in for the "Released" catagory (with a simple "No" for unreleased games)? I'm fairly certain that having so many images on the page makes it significantly bigger (if they don't make the pages bigger though, you might as well disregard this comment). - Ecksem Diem 20:04, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Personally, I think the list needs to be overhauled simply because it is useless as a source of information. Unless you already know what title you are looking for it is very hard to find such information as 'what has been released in my region' or 'what exclusives does the system have'. A sortable list would be a very strong solution to this. I spent a few minutes and came up with this. I think that there could be some changes (dates for release instead of Y/N?), but I think it shows the idea. I used the 0-9 and A sections of the current games to fill it up. What do people think? If anyone wants to play around with he idea, I have it up in my user space. Telvin 3d 03:47, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

I think Telvin's table is the on the right track in terms of making this list the most informative and presentable. I've taken his table and modified it somewhat, a format which I believe is the best (Updated):

Reformmating of List
Hello! After much discussion I've begun updating and reformatting the list of Wii games. This reformatting will make the page easier and more efficient to use and should satisfy most everybody.

I encourage all of those who can to help reformat this list; as you can see, I have already done those titles that begin with a number, 'A', and 'B'.

You'll see that the source link is next to the title in the form of an arrow. Please follow this format and note that the arrow (right arrow) can be found in the 'Insert' section of the editing box. Also, be sure to take a couple seconds and click the current link to make sure it is legitimate and current. If not, please be kind enough to update this link.

When inserting release dates for each region, please be as accurate as possible. Q1 2007 refers to the months Jan-Feb 2007. A 'summer' release usually means a Q3 release. It is better to be conservative, so if a title is to be published in the second half of 2007, insert Q4 2007, and be sure to update the date when more details are available.

If no date is given and cannot be approximated, then insert either 'TBA' or 'Unreleased'. If a title is likely to come out for a particular region, type 'TBA'. If it is unlikely that the title will see release in a particular region, type in 'Unreleased'. It is safer to say a title is 'TBA' if you are unsure. Do not, however, leave any of these columns blank. To help guide you make note of whether previous games from that publisher or franchise came out in a particular region and use Google/Wikipedia to search for information.

Once again, thank you for your input and I look forward to everybody's help in keeping this list updated and accessible. -Digiwrld1 11:20, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Formatting of List

 * Hmm, using "200x Qx" instead of "Qx 200x", messes up the page sorting. Then again, it'll also be messed up when we have two different years and the same quarter. I guess we need an additional sort key for those (and for "2007", too). --Conti|&#9993; 14:58, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, it does and it doesn't. With the 200x Qx format, the entries sort to the start of their respective year.  I admit that it breaks up the flow of the fully dated entries, but it still sorts cleanly.  If we go with Qx 200x format, they will all sort to the bottom together, much like the TBAs and Unreleased do, but Q1 2008 will sort before Q3 2007.  If you have a way to get the best of both worlds, I'd be happy to hear it Telvin 3d 18:18, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * As I said, sort keys might do the trick, but that would be kinda cumbersome. IMHO, the "2007" and "2007 Qx" entries should come after the more detailed "22 March, 2007" entries. My only idea to achieve that would be a sort key of "2007-12-31". --Conti|&#9993; 18:30, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree that it would look better. My only issue with the sort key is that it would be a more work to maintain in the long term.  Many people who make only ocasional edits may not check this page and may not realize how the formatting works.  The way it is now isn't as pretty, but it is logical and makes sense. Telvin 3d 20:07, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That's true. But then again, the table as it is (and tables in general are) is already quite unfriendly towards newbies, so I don't think adding another sort key for a few entries is too much. I could create a template, so that all that needs to be added would be something like 2007 or 2007 . --Conti|&#9993; 21:04, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * If you did that, it would be really cool. I think it would also be a more obvious format for anyone who isn't as familiar with formatting tags. Telvin 3d 21:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * TBA should work now, feel free to try it out. :) --Conti|&#9993; 22:36, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks like it works great. Telvin 3d 23:09, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh man, that's great--I had thought that the sorting issues couldn't be resolved because of some kind of limit in wiki editing; guess i was wrong. Thanks for all of your guys help Telvin and ContiE. The table looks great.-Digiwrld1 10:31, 24 February 2007 (UTC)