Only 7 titles on the 21st

Cubed-3:

"he good folk over at N-Philes have been doing some digging after the recent announcement of EA's Tiger Woods PGA Golf DS slipping from its 21st November US début to sometime in mid-December.

Originally Nintendo announced that its new portable system, the DS, would launch in the US with twelve titles, however that number quickly slipped with EA's revelation. That meant that the remaining list looked something like this:

Super Mario 64 DS [ Nintendo ]
Rayman DS [ Ubisoft ]
Asphalt GT [ Ubisoft ]
Sprung [ Ubisoft ]
Madden NFL 2005 [ EA ]
Urbz: Sims in the City [ EA ]
Spider-Man 2 [ Activision ]
Feel the Magic XX/XY [ SEGA ]
Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits [ Namco ]
Ridge Racer DS [ Namco ]
Ping Pals [ THQ ]


The website, therefore, smelled a rat and began investigating some more...and the findings were not too favourable. Ubisoft's official page states that whilst Asphalt Urban GT might still be on for a 'November' (still vague), release, its DS counterparts, Rayman DS and Sprung are deemed to hit in December instead of on Day One.

Therefore, it would look as if the total on the day has been reduced to a possible eight straight away and removes some of the more interesting launch games. But then it gets worse, as on THQ's site Ping Pals looks to have been dated in December as well, reducing the number to just seven! However, this last one would make sense since many have critcised THQ for making people pay for something similar to the completely free PictoChat from Nintendo...

Thankfully there are reports of retailers getting Spiderman 2 and Feel the Magic: XX/XY already. Yet Mr Driller: Drill Spirits is said to only be coming in limited supply - with just 2,500 units from the word 'Go'."