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In one of the least surprising announcements concerning the Wii, they have finally let the cat out of the bag concerning the existence of the WiiWare Channel.
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/levelup/archive/2007/06/26/level-up-exclusive-on-nintendo-wiiware.aspx
Nice. I expect more news to be forthcoming.
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/levelup/archive/2007/06/26/level-up-exclusive-on-nintendo-wiiware.aspx
Go Nintendo wrote:
Our good friend N’Gai Croal sent us a great bit of information (as did some of our readers, thanks guys!). None other than Reggie Fils-Aime disclosed the first information on WiiWare, the original downloadable content we’ve all been talking about. While we won’t be seeing this new channel take off until next year, we finally have some concrete details.
While the channel name is yet to be announced, WiiWare is what the games are being called. Nintendo has stated that they are looking for content from all sources, from big name developers to the indie crowd. The only thing Nintendo would do with these titles is check to make sure they work right. It’s up to the developers to secure a rating and so on. Pricing will be determined on a game by game basis.
Like I said, we have to wait until next year. The good news is that Nintendo is actually creating some WiiWare as well. There will be an official press release sometime later today to bring us all the details.
Nice. I expect more news to be forthcoming.
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Why not, Alien Hominid was the shit.
I think there is a pretty decent chance they will not, in fact, be shitty!
Indeed. It also makes the announcement of some sort of storage solution (I'm guessing USB hard drive support, possibly a remodel) pretty damn probable.
If they released a free/cheap SDK in the vein of XNA that ran on Windows/Linux/Mac, they could really convert a lot of potential game developers over to Nintendo.
Oh lord, imagine if it was actually FREE...Even if they just released a toned down version that was free and had some limitations to it, if there was a way to make games able to be just downloaded right off the interwebs without long approval processes...
It'll never happen, but it'd be so cool.
I'm saying this because I'm sure some companies are going to pretty up there flash games for the Wii (ones found on AlbinoBlacksheep, etc.) and put them up on WiiWare with a $5 price tag. I'm not saying that this is all it will be but I'm letting it be known, to people that it doesn't really concern, that I will not pay for a fixed up version of a shitty flash game. If the flash game is acceptable (take Alien Hominid for instance, mentioned above) then we can talk, but as far as I'm concerned no game of "Dodge shit with the WiiMote" is/should be worth something.
They'd be crazy to release the SDK for free.
All I know about Wii Dev Kits is this: The offical ones are by far cheaper than the PS3/360 counterparts, but they are also extremely hard to get ahold of. But that was quite a long time ago when I looked into it. Still I imagine you'd do all right if you duck taped two gamecube dev kits together and added a little waggle.
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Yeah, I think we were a bit too hard on you. No one should expect people to buy shitty versions of flash games. Luckily enough, none of those have really appeared on the other two download services (FLOW is a very GOOD flash type game, for another example) so we shouldn't really worry about that. Considering Nintendo's sometimes overzealous war to protect their systems from shitty games I really wouldn't worry too much.
I very much look forward to this.
Wait, wait wait! Radio Allergy! If I keep thinking about all the possibilities I'll never get to sleep.
It'd be a heavily toned down SDK. Something that can't use the full power of the device, but can pull off simple stuff.
Ah well, no big deal.
Perhaps we will see a nice 100-300 dollar sdk for these WiiWare games?
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I only bring it up because of the whole "We will support flash games for the Wii because it has online" stuff. With this new service basically being "if it works it can go up" I can see a lot of this going up. I'm sure the service will have some great games (hell, Geometry Wars will probably get whored out to this aswell) and I'm sure I'll buy some of them. I just don't want wait for the next batch of games only to find out they all are (again) shitty flash games.
I've added a little something to this quote tree. Let's see if anyone can spot it.
Anyways I've been waiting for an XBLAesque addition to the VC and am glad to hear this. Hopefully Neo Geo makes it over here soon and then the VC'll really pick up steam.
Also, there is already a retail version of Geometry Wars on the Wii release calender for this year.
EDIT: I wonder if some external storage medium will be announced. Hopefully you can use your own and just USB it.
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The XBLA is one of my favorite parts of the 360, and I've possibly put more time into Geometry Wars, Heavy Weapon and Pac-Man CE than in any of my full retail games. And it's sad that a person would instantly expect "OMG SHITTY FLASH GAMES." I mean, yeah, there are going to be some shitty titles, but XBLA has plenty of duds, too, you know. Or are people clamoring for all 200 points of Feeding Frenzy? It's a service like any other, and there will be good and bad titles abound.
The only thing that stings is the "early 2008" part. I'm also curious as to how developers are going to feel with their new titles going directly against the backlog nostalgia of the VC. I mean, who wants their title to go up against Dragon Warrior IV or Super Metroid?
EDIT: Official PR:
Edit: I have to run so I can't check right now, but I just suddenly thought that it might have been one of those freeware SHUMP developers or something.
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Yes, opening the doors wide will indeed result in a lot of crap - there's a whole lot of upside though. I really hope that when they release details we find out that it's totally feasible to do this with ultra small teams (Which they say is the intent - hopefully they don't mean 'small teams of people who all have 5-6 years development experience on console games'). I have a concept that I'm currently working on implementing in TGB (Torque Game Builder) that I'd love to try to do for Wii too...
You just keep on trying 'til you run out of cake
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It is probably the most awesome free flash game I have ever played.
Ah well, hopefully by the time this hits there'll be a fair amount of content built up.
The only thing left is the ability to download DS demo's on to the Wii.
My 360 is [strike]back[/strike] [strike]bricked[/strike] back!
Considering WarioWare or Cooking Momma or Trauma Center are essentially suped up flash games he has a point. Not a good one, mind you, but he has one.
Heh .... you're the first person I've seen use the correct spelling for "suped" and Firefox is giving it the red underline, but doesn't for "souped." WTF?
Back on topic ... don't expect any Tom, Dick, and Harry who knows flash to be able to get in on this. When they say "indie" they just mean independent studios who don't have publishers ... like Clover or Starbreeze (I'm sure everyone else here can name more).
You still have to be able to afford and qualify for the dev kit and be able to pay for all applicable ESRB rating (which in and of itself is expensive). You just won't have to contract with a publisher to stamp a disc and ship it.
Do not ask me why. I do not know why. Maybe it is a reference to someone being invigorated by the power of soup!
"Suped" is a slang verb meaning to be made super. Probably started from someone incorrectly using "supe" as the verb form of "super" when in fact the verb form is "super" (though it's only used in printing apparently).
I'm not going to get on anybody's case for using "souped," but at least now you know where the word comes from.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/go-shmup-yourself/blast-works-build-fuse--destroy-272754.php
Also, Geometry Wars, also the announced C64 remakes.
He was just chomping at the bit for that one. :P
Whatever, I'd bet a nut a firmware update 'll address the channel slot BS, and I'd bet the other that we'll either get an update to run software off of SD cards, a hard drive expansion or both.