Hold It! Phoenix Wright Is Wii-Bound?
Get ready to yell "Objection!" while striking a dramatic pose with your Wii remote, because it looks like the Ace Attorney might be venturing to Nintendo's console in the future. That is, according to Germany's USK rating system which recently posted a rating for a Wii Phoenix Wright game.
Currently, suspicions are that Phoenix Wright's first console foray will be a WiiWare rehashing of his first handheld adventure. Last year in Japan the first Phoenix Wright game was released via digital distribution for PCs, which would make for a fairly easy port to a WiiWare game. In Japan the PC version took an episodic form, breaking the game's 4 cases into 17 chapters. However, given that the German USK rating only lists one Phoenix Wright game, it would be safe to assume that we'll be getting the whole package in one shot. Now, fans of the series might have noticed that I just said that the PC game had 4 cases, while the DS game had 5. This is because the PC version was based on the original GBA game, which was lacking the DS version's touch-screen intensive 5th case.
While it is a bit disappointing that the first Phoenix Wright game to hit consoles will likely be an older port, it is good to see the franchise expanding to new platforms. Of course, nothing is official at this point, but please tell me I'm not the only one that gets really excited thinking about the possibility of presenting evidence with an over-dramatic flourish of the Wii remote. Maybe this will help to make up for Phoenix Wright's glaring omission from Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Coming To The Wii [GamerBytes]
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Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 5 November 2009
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Hold it! Don't bother. An upscaled version of the GBA game does not count as a Wii game. Oops. Did I say that out loud?
Well they wanted to include him, it's just that Objection is a much bigger word than it's Japanese equivalent. At least we get Frank West. As for this, I kind of have to agree with blackboy. I would prefer to see new cases, but perhaps if this and Perfect prosecutor do well enough we will see something like that. But until then, I still have three games to get and subsequently beat.