According to a press release Nintendo Europe dropped today, Disaster: Day of Crisis will be hitting the EU’s finest videogame mongers on October 24th. In 2008. I swear, that’s what they said. Now, despite my previously expressed skepticism concerning Disaster’s existence, it’s hard to ignore a press release. Then again, back in April, Nintendo Japan told Famitsu magazine that it would be shipping on July 3rd, 2008. Then it was “delayed indefinitely” in May. E3 came and went with absolutely no mention of the game either. Is Disaster: Day of Crisis actually going to ship in October? Who knows. More importantly, does anyone care? Yes, every other person on Earth with even a passing interest in videogames has verbally taken Nintendo out behind the proverbial shed for not releasing any traditional videogames on Wii but is Disaster what people want? Is a game no one has seen in motion for almost two years, an action game developed by a Japanese studio who has only ever made RPGs, a game no one has actually played the answer to hardcore prayers?
I don’t know. It might be. Frankly, a press release doesn’t even prove it exists at this point.
Many thanks to NeoGAFfer Shiggy for spreading the word.
Related links:
Where is Wii’s Disaster: Day of Crisis?
Many Colors in the Hardcore Rainbow
WiiWare: Nintendo, Babe, It Just Isn’t Working Out
Shut It, Old Man: The Absurd Extent of Nintendo’s Secrecy