Darksiders is set to come out on June 26th for PS3, PC and 360, but it looks like Nintendo has wanted a piece of the dark pie and a Wii U listing has popped up for a slated " year end season" release. The new console will be unleashed around about the same time and people are thinking Darksiders 2 will be a Wii U launch title, which will be awesome and interesting all at the same time.

Word comes from on high with Hayden Dalton, the lead designer at Vigil Games, creators of Darksiders 2, who said in an interview with Digital Spy, that, "That's been very interesting to see what those guys are doing, and they're making efforts to make sure we do use it in more than a slapdash way," So hoping it won't just be another port is good, but obviously you'll need to integrate the new Wii U controls. Dalton has that covered saying,  "it's basically the core game, but then with added abilities to do certain things that you can't do on the other consoles."

Dalton was humble about the new title saying "We're not basically heavily changing the core game to support the control system, but the control system will be an enhancement of the core game," He provided an example saying that there was a possibility of being able to switch equipment on the fly -- as the player is running, they can tap on the controller and instantly change equipment, rather than having to pause and navigate through a menu. "That's huge, it's not breaking up the game in a way, I'm not going into a menu and assigning it, I'm literally just tapping as I'm playing."

Already proving the Wii U is a day late and a dollar short, regarding their stance on the console wars thing. I don't know anything that Nintendo can do to really show off the Wii U any more. It's a tragedy, but some are calling it the Dreamcast of Nintendo and that's more of it being a swan song than an incredibly innovative device that will predict what gamers will want for the next decade, sans motion controls.

Via [Joystiq]

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