Nintendo Wii boasts plethora of games

Nintendo on Tuesday announced that there will be 62 titles available for its forthcoming Wii videogame console within a few weeks of the device's expected 19 November US launch.

The Wii is set to hit UK stores on 8 December with many of the same titles.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Japanese company said there will be 32 new titles for the £180 Wii by the end of the year, as well as a roster of 30 classic games available for download online from Nintendo's Vitual Console.

Among the new titles, from both Nintendo and third-party developers, will be The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Excite Truck, Super Swing Golf, Need for Speed: Carbon, Call of Duty 3, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Rampage: Total Destruction, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam, Red Steel and many others.

The Wii's US launch will come just two days after the planned 17 November US launch date of Sony's own next-generation videogame console, the PlayStation 3. Production problems mean the PS3's European launch has been delayed until March next year. Sony has said it would launch the PS3 with 22 titles.

Microsoft's next-generation entry, the Xbox 360, was released last autumn.