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tuxido
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 Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:09 pm Post subject: NINTENDO'S WIIWARE PAVES THE WAY FOR FRESH GAMES |
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http://press.nintendo.com/articles.jsp?id=12571
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 27, 2007 – The search for the next ingeniously ground-breaking video game has begun. At a private developers conference this week, Nintendo announced the introduction of WiiWare™, a game-creation service that will allow developers large and small to create new downloadable video game content for sale by Nintendo through the Wii Shop Channel of the hot Wii™ home video game system. WiiWare paves the way for smaller, more creative games to make their way to the public at lower prices, without any inventory risk to developers. The first WiiWare content will launch in early 2008.
"Independent developers armed with small budgets and big ideas will be able to get their original games into the marketplace to see if we can find the next smash hit," says Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. "WiiWare brings new levels of creativity and value to the ever-growing population of Wii owners."
The possibilities for WiiWare are limited only by the imaginations of developers. WiiWare provides game creators a simple method by which they can get their games to the public. This approach, combined with the remarkable motion controls of the Wii Remote™ and Nunchuk™, will give birth to fresh takes on established genres, as well as original ideas that currently exist only in developers' minds. The reduced barriers to development provide developers the freedom to create and an inexpensive, clearly defined path to reach consumers who will ultimately determine which game will become the Next Big Thing.
WiiWare will be posted on the Wii Shop Channel. As with current Wii Shop Channel offerings, users will redeem Wii Points™ to download content. It will support a variety of pricing options. Details about that and upcoming projects will be announced at a later date. For more information about Wii, visit Wii.com.
The worldwide innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii™, Nintendo DS™, Game Boy® Advance and Nintendo GameCube™ systems. Since 1983, Nintendo has sold nearly 2.4 billion video games and more than 409 million hardware units globally, and has created industry icons like Mario™, Donkey Kong®, Metroid®, Zelda™ and Pokémon®. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's Web site at www.Nintendo.com. |
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WiiLinovice
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:48 am Post subject: |
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Hey! I can't wait that long! 
Any bets that we'll see a few Geometry Wars/Mutant Storm clones? 
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dug
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:51 am Post subject: $$$??? |
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What will be the cost though I wonder?
Will you still need to purchase a development license for Wii, which is like $2000 I think? |
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fortunzfavor
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:00 am Post subject: |
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| Nintendo UK also repeated a denial of the Wii hard drive rumor, so your big idea better have a small footprint. |
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Tainek
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| fortunzfavor wrote: | | Nintendo UK also repeated a denial of the Wii hard drive rumor, so your big idea better have a small footprint. |
i wouldnt place too much stock in this, remember that they deny All hardware progressions, right up until release |
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fortunzfavor
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| Tainek wrote: | | i wouldnt place too much stock in this, remember that they deny All hardware progressions, right up until release |
I certainly hope you're right, but FYI, they also denied Kinetic-powered wiimotes.
It is hard to imagine all of the Downloadable and online content, especially recently announced items like Neo Geo and Wiiware, continuing long without real storage (I don't count SD juggling), and I imagine some 3rd party games will want to offer some form of retail game expandability (maps etc) when they get online in '08. I suppose if they released drives too soon, people would start complaining that they had nothing to put on them. |
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CoinCollector
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| Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: Re: $$$??? |
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| dug wrote: | What will be the cost though I wonder?
Will you still need to purchase a development license for Wii, which is like $2000 I think? |
Or, they might release a special SDK just for developing for WiiWare. It would be cheaper, because you wouldn't really need the full power of the Wii SDK to develop the smaller applications for WiiWare, would you? |
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