Posted on June 7, 2011, Phil Owen Wii U Going Hardcore

Reggie Fils-Aime made a big deal about how the Wii U will totally play badass new games like Battlefield 3. Here are games they mentioned as planned for release on the new platform:

• Metro: Last Light
• Darksiders II
• Dirt
• Tekken
• Ninja Gaiden 3
• Batman: Arkham City
• Ghost Recon Online
• Assassin’s Creed: Revelations
• Aliens: Colonial Marines

Cool? I have a hard time caring about this particular part of the Wii U announcement, and not just because a few of those games will have been out for months bythe time Nintendo’s new console even comes out. My real reservation: the people who want to play these games already can on as many as three other platforms. Why do we need a fourth?

This part of the announcement makes it feel like Nintendo is for the first time introducing a true current-generation console, and that’s kinda awkward. It’s too late to make any real headway into the current-generation hardcore market. Maybe if Reggie had said something about how these versions of the games would be higher res or something… but he didn’t.