So finally we have a little bit of extra news as a follow-up to the game’s announcement the other day, the rental site GameFly, which commonly lists info on unannounced games which turn out to be correct, have just put up the listings of Rio 2016 for Wii U and 3DS, and indicate that just like Sochi 2014 before it, Nintendo is back to publish Rio 2016 in NA (and likely EU), as opposed to Sega who published the first three games in the west. Nintendo has published every entry in Japan to date.
Now what’s REALLY puzzling, is that GameFly lists the Wii U version as TBD (to be determined), but the 3DS version for December 31st 2016. Dates on any site are always likely to not be final until confirmed by the publisher, but also, London 2012 did come out a bit later on 3DS than on Wii, missing the 2011 holiday season, likely to avoid releasing with Generations 3DS? Who knows. But that’s all we got so far!
When more comes, we’ll post it!
The 3DS release date is clearly a placeholder – there’s no way we’ll be left waiting 18 months for it, the Olympics will be over by then so it’d have nothing to promote! I predict both versions will be out for Christmas this year, or if there is any gap at all, the 3DS one will arrive no later than February/March 2016.
Oh yeah, tradition, London 3DS-aide, has shown them to make the holidays prior to said Olympics. 🙂
The DS version of Beijing game also came out 3/4 months after it’s Wii version.