Rumor: 16 titles at launch

There's a list of Wii launch games traveling through the myriad computers, routers, cables and robotic gnomes that comprise the Internet, though it mostly amounts to a bunch of good guesses as opposed to official confirmations. No doubt obtained from retailers and not publishers, the list suggests that the following games will be available when Nintendo unleashes their Wii:

• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
  

• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
  

• Wii Sports
  

• Red Steel
  

• Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam
  

• Madden NFL 2007
  

• Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
  

• Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
  

• Metal Slug Anthology
  

• Trauma Center: Second Opinion
  

• Elebits
  

• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
  

• Blitz: The League
  

• Rayman Raving Rabbids
  

• SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
  

• Disney/Pixar's Cars

Since most of these games were playable at E3, it's not too much of a stretch to think that they'd fall within the system's launch. However, this could be another case of that mysterious launch window marketing nonsense messing with our calendars and drawing a distinction between games that launch on day one and games that release shortly afterwards. Atlus told us specifically that Trauma Center: Second Opinion was a "launch window" game and if Activision is serious about Tony Hawk, Downhill Jam will be one too (because people, that game still needs a lot of work).