No third-party Wii games online until 2007
In their preview of Tony Hawk’s Downhill Jam, IGN revealed that there will be no third-party games for the Wii until 2007.
Gamers hoping for an online component, however, are in for bad news, because one isn’t planned. Activision would not say why, but IGN has separately learned from multiple development sources that Nintendo will not release Wii Wi-Fi Connection libraries to third parties until early 2007, which means that no third party launch title will have an online mode.
This means that third-party launch titles such as Call of Duty 3, Red Steel, Far Cry, and Madden NFL 07 will not have online support.