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Nintendo Wii home brew
At a private developers conference
recently, 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 Nintendo 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 early in the year of our Lord 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.
Family Friendly Gaming
{06/29/2007}