Nintendo has detailed a raft of new development support for its WiiWare and DSiWare download platforms at an event in London today.
Nintendo turned the spotlight on third-party games such as LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias from UK-based Frontier, American studio Telltale Games' Tales of Money Island and Japanese designer Kenji Eno's You, Me, and the Cubes to prove how developers around the world were embracing the platform.
It also revealed that iPhone specialist Firemint had been convinced to release a DSiWare version of its Flight Control title.
Plus, the format-holder is introducing a new points scheme to encourage more users to log on to the service - and it is today relaunching its WiiWare hub at www.wiiware.co.uk. The site now features a weekly top 10 sales chart and guides on how to use the service.
FuRuy has opened a Twitter account called “Project Alice” teasing a new game announcement on April 25 at 20:30 JST.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
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I'd hope so. Almost seemed like they were backing away from their WiiWare projects and the DSiWare needs major updates as far as bringing us some games. Sure it's new but hey I'm part of the internet gamers and we need satisfaction next day or even day of! ;)