With the trend of games being released under the Touch Generation label and the vast popularity of Dr. Kawashima's disembodied head, Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton still reassured hardcore gamers that they are not being ignored - whether you're talking about titles on the Wii or DS.

At a press conference in London, a couple of Nintendo fans who grew up on the classic first-party titles on the NES and SNES (oh, you can throw your own example here: Legend of Zelda, Star Fox, etc.) expressed their concern about the recent and upcoming releases that Nintendo has in its games library. A couple of games that were pointed out were Brain Training and Wii Fit.

Yarnton replied with a number of games to prove that they are indeed not ignoring the hardcore gamer. Said Yarnton, they (Nintendo) are still very much in touch with their roots:

It's important to know that we're not ignoring the hardcore gamer. They're still very important to us. // And Christmas alone we have already catered on the Wii with Metroid Prime 3 and Super Mario Galaxy, and on DS with The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

We all have different definitions of "hardcore" gaming. And true enough (some of you might even agree), Metroid Prime delivers in the hardcore department (Ridley battle FTW!). Galaxy does go back to the Mario 64 roots with a lot more to offer. And Phantom Hourglass, despite having a new kind of control scheme, still takes us back to the days of classic top-down dungeon crawlers like A Link to the Past.

But what about other games to follow Super Mario Galaxy? Let's hope Nintendo starts making announcements soon. We can't wait for a Star Fox on the Wii.

Whenever a new game comes out, someone's bound to take a look at every aspect of it. Of course, with the slew of intriguing games coming out for the Nintendo Wii, we didn't expect someone to take the time to look at the box art and analyze it. At least, that's what Play Nintendo's Husain did with the Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree box art.

First off, if you check the upper left corner of the box, you'll notice that the game has a Touch Generations symbol, much like the game's DS counterpart. What Husain notes as a big difference is that this Touch Generations symbol uses the Wiimote rather than the stylus. As you can probably guess, expect to do a lot of fiddling around with the answers to the game's questions using the Wiimote.

One thing that Nintendo fails to mention with their press releases is that Pokemon: Battle Revolution isn't the first game to come out with some semblance of online play. As the analysis manages to mention, Big Brain Academy happens to be the second game which uses Online Play.

As you can see in the picture on the right, the warning gives it away. Of course, the online functions aren't as robust as it would be in the Pokemon game (you trade training data wirelessly), but they do note that it's a misnomer to assume that Pokemon is the beginning of Wii's Online Play use. Funny how a little thing such as box art reveals so much, doesn't it?

 

Siliconera informs that packed with Fire Emblem: Goddess of Dawn, is a small brochure for Touch Generation titles on the Wii. Touch what? Okay, here's a little explanation.

The Touch Generations brand is used by Nintendo to select/market games that supposedly both gamers and non-gamers can easily enjoy. In Japan titles in this brand include: Brain Training (Brain Age), Picross DS and English Training. In the North America, the brand's been used for Nintendogs, Magnetica, and Club House Games.

   

Nintendo is obviously proud of the brand and its use with Wii games just shows their aim to target those at the edge of gaming culture. Not including the obvious choices, what other Nintendo titles would you include in the Touch Generations brand? MySims for one sounds like a shoe-in.