Both games will be hitting the states in the first half of the year

Yesterday’s news of Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Metroid: Other M definitely not being holiday releases has been confirmed today at Nintendo’s America Media Summit, but they’re coming even sooner than you’d expect. Galaxy 2 has been dated for May 23rd, while Other M just slips into the first half of the year at June 27. This leaves virtually the whole second half of the year open to any other ’interesting’ titles, potentially shown at E3

Of course we don’t know exactly when we’ll be receiving them yet, but hopefully now after the big US reveal Nintendo Australia will be able to enlighten us soon.