Nintendo Blitzing Korea with Wii Adverts

By Adam Riley 26.05.2008 2

Nintendo of Korea has been following the bombardment of DS adverts over the past year with a slew of Wii TV placement pieces since the console launched on 26th April. The launch roster from Nintendo was just Wii Sports and Wii Play, whilst Ubisoft hit with Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, Capcom brought Zack & Wiki, EA had FIFA 08 on the first day, Bandai Namco launched Namco Museum Remix, Konami had Elebits and Tecmo's Korean-developed Pangya! Golf 2 was in the launch line-up as well. Certain game sales were revealed yesterday, along with how Nintendo sold 35,000 out of its initial 50,000 Wii units stock supply in the first month, but now it has been announced that more content is on the way and very soon indeed. Nintendo will be publishing the SEGA-developed Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games on 29th May (an advert for it can be seen below), whilst Activision is to release Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock sometime next month.

A batch of Korean Wii adverts can be seen below:


Mii Creation 01


Mii Creation 02


Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games


Wii Sports 01 - Golf


Wii Sports 02 - Boxing


Wii Sports 03 - Baseball


Wii Play 01 - Shooting

On the Nintendo DS front, both Sudoku DS and Mario Party DS hit this month from Nintendo (the latter launching just four days ago on 22nd May), whilst on the Third Party side, Success's Rondo of Swords was launched back in February via Korean distributor Cyberfront and translated by Studio 9, Bandai Namco brought Pac 'N Roll out in April under the new name of Pac 'N Ball and Tank Beat 2 launched at the end of April. On 29th May Korean developer CTGame Entertainment's 'DS Go and Stop' will launch, alongside the impending release of Super Dodge Ball on 5th June. Nintendo has since removed the upcoming releases section for its self-published titles, for some reason.

Stick around for more coverage of Nintendo games over in South Korea...

Box art for Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
Developer

SEGA

Publisher

SEGA

Genre

Sport

Players

4

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Pretty nice commercials. They all look so happy. Smilie

That first one's so funny, making the Mii of that dad. Totally reminds me of my extended family over in Korea and the fun that can be had making Mii characters.

And having popular stars doing adverts works well rather than the 'We Would Like to Play' ads in the US...

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