Nintendo Announces WiiWare

[Da Ill One]

Well, N'Gai called it. This morning, Nintendo official announced WiiWare, which allows developers to create downloadable titles especially for the Wii. Using redeemable Wii Points, the games will be sold via the Wii Shop Channel. Says Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime:

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. WiiWare brings new levels of creativity and value to the ever-growing population of Wii owners.

The first WiiWare games will come in a "variety of pricing options" and become available early 2008. Hit the jump for the full release.


Nintendo's WiiWare Paves The Way For Fresh Games, Cool Consumer Experiences Nintendo Sets a New Paradigm: One Game Can Still Make a Difference
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- 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(TM), 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(TM) 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(TM) and Nunchuk(TM), 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(TM) 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.

[PlayWithMyWii]

Dude.
This is perfect.
Me and my brother are designing a videogame.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by PlayWithMyWii

Dude.
This is perfect.
Me and my brother are designing a videogame.

Oh really? Me and about ten people are devloping a PC game in Software dev class in school. I think I might send the build over to nintendo too see if we could get it out there.

[midnight1starwars]

cool this is a good idea maybe some good games will come out of it

[Chris]

But really nintendo is really late with this...original DL games have been around for years now. Better late than never

[Agravain3]

good things come to those who wait chris

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Agravain3

good things come to those who wait chris

Why wait when you already have something on another console? I mean DLC? Online gaming? Nintendo just now got into the program

[ninjask88]

Cool I should make Remnants of legends but first I need to buy software to make the game.

Chris is the game you are making Soul-ger?

[That Normal Kid]

at first, i read this on some other site, and was like...what's the big deal? we have this now!

but then i read:

Originally Posted by blog.newsweek.com/blogs/levelup

Unlike the vintage games already being offered for legacy systems through the Virtual Console, these games will be built specifically for the Wii and sold via the Wii Shop Channel for Wii Points currency, much like the Xbox 360- and Playstation 3-specific games being sold on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network.

so im excited!

[BlackJack]

This is awesome, good find as always Da Ill One.