New Wii channels for May
30 April 2008, 06:15 PM
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New Wii channels for May
Wii Ware:
Nintendo is the latest on the indie console-development bandwagon with WiiWare, a "game-creation service that will allow developers large and small to create new downloadable video game content" that the company announced this morning.
The company is making it clear that they're looking for little guys to make games for the console, though it's currently unclear exactly how that will be done. Interestingly, Reggie Fils-Amie told N'Gai Croal of Newsweek that the games would be checked for bugs but not vetted by Nintendo. Developers would be responsible for securing an ESRB rating (AO titles won't be welcome, sorry Manhunt 2.) Look for the first WiiWare to start appearing in early 2008.
Nintendo will also be deciding how many points the games will be sold for when they're put on the Wii Shop channel. With this brave new world of indie development, who knows where the next big Wii game will come from now? Well, we do, it will come from Nintendo. But thanks to WiiWare, the search for the next big way to wait for the next big Nintendo game just got a lot more interesting.
Nintendo Channel:
The channel, which is already out in Japan as the 'Everybody's Nintendo Channel', will allow you to keep "up-to-date on all the latest information for past, present and future games on all Nintendo platforms."
We also believe it'll allow you to review Wii Software (WiiWare) games for other Wii users to read.
Although you're not able to play demos of Wii Software games, the Nintendo Channel should help give you an idea of what's in store before you splash out the Wii Points.
The Wii Software Channel - a portal for brand-new downloadable games on Wii - will launch here ten days earlier, on May 20.
Nintendo is the latest on the indie console-development bandwagon with WiiWare, a "game-creation service that will allow developers large and small to create new downloadable video game content" that the company announced this morning.
The company is making it clear that they're looking for little guys to make games for the console, though it's currently unclear exactly how that will be done. Interestingly, Reggie Fils-Amie told N'Gai Croal of Newsweek that the games would be checked for bugs but not vetted by Nintendo. Developers would be responsible for securing an ESRB rating (AO titles won't be welcome, sorry Manhunt 2.) Look for the first WiiWare to start appearing in early 2008.
Nintendo will also be deciding how many points the games will be sold for when they're put on the Wii Shop channel. With this brave new world of indie development, who knows where the next big Wii game will come from now? Well, we do, it will come from Nintendo. But thanks to WiiWare, the search for the next big way to wait for the next big Nintendo game just got a lot more interesting.
Nintendo Channel:
The channel, which is already out in Japan as the 'Everybody's Nintendo Channel', will allow you to keep "up-to-date on all the latest information for past, present and future games on all Nintendo platforms."
We also believe it'll allow you to review Wii Software (WiiWare) games for other Wii users to read.
Although you're not able to play demos of Wii Software games, the Nintendo Channel should help give you an idea of what's in store before you splash out the Wii Points.
The Wii Software Channel - a portal for brand-new downloadable games on Wii - will launch here ten days earlier, on May 20.
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