WiiWare to offer original downloadable games
Make them shorter, original, and more creative, Nintendo has told developers who want their downloadable games on Nintendo’s WiiWare.
N’Gai Croal at Level Up got the exclusive chat with Reggie Fils-Aime, and found out all he coud about WiiWare:
Unlike the vintage games already being offered for legacy systems (i.e. Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx 16) through the Virtual Console, these games will be built specifically for the Wii and sold via the Wii Shop Channel for Wii Points currency, much like the Xbox 360- and Playstation 3-specific games being sold on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network.
What’s more interesting is that Nintendo isn’t only seeking WiiWare from established publishers and developers like Ubisoft and Sega. At a Nintendo developer’s conference earlier this week, the company informed attendees that it was seeking from indie developers as well. Shorter, original, more creative games from small teams with big ideas; these are the buzzwords that you’ll be hearing from Nintendo when its Wednesday announcement goes wide.
Cool stuff.
Via Level Up
July 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 am
i’d rather have them make applications, not games for wii-ware, just make a subsection in the virtual console for the other games, i’d rather have some cool apps, like a google earth, (yeah i know someone will say, THATS ALREADY THERE, THE FORECAST CHANNEL, and ill be like stfu betch :D)
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:05 pm
yeah and maybe another firmware update before summer ends so we can listen to music while websurfing or multiple tabs. more apps would be nice though, like eric said