Jale
June 28th, 2007, 18:45
New Wii Game-Creation Service Fully Detailed
Download the software. Make a game. Sell it. Easy.
Nintendo has just officially announced 'Wii Software', a game-creation service that will enable developers large and small to create new downloadable game content for sale by Nintendo through the Wii Shop Channel
'Wii Software' is pegged as nothing less than a “New Paradigm” by Nintendo with the added line of, “One Game Can Still Make a Difference.”
Inspiring stuff indeed, and SPOnG hopes that Nintendo is correct in its assertion that the search for the “next ingeniously ground-breaking video game has begun… the possibilities for Wii Software are limited only by the imaginations of developers.”
The hope is that Wii Software will pave 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 Wii Software content will launch in early 2008.
Laurent Fischer, Nintendo’s European Marketing Director, explains “Wii Software provides developers with big ideas, rather than big budgets, an easy and very accessible way to create new games and bring them to the marketplace, as well as offering great additional value for Wii owners who will be able to download fresh new game.”
Wii Software is all about reducing barriers to development – very much like Microsoft’s own XNA programme – providing game creators with a simple method by which they can create innovative and inexpensive games and, crucially, distribute them to a wider public.
Further pricing details and more on upcoming Wii Software projects will be announced at a later date.
Download the software. Make a game. Sell it. Easy.
Nintendo has just officially announced 'Wii Software', a game-creation service that will enable developers large and small to create new downloadable game content for sale by Nintendo through the Wii Shop Channel
'Wii Software' is pegged as nothing less than a “New Paradigm” by Nintendo with the added line of, “One Game Can Still Make a Difference.”
Inspiring stuff indeed, and SPOnG hopes that Nintendo is correct in its assertion that the search for the “next ingeniously ground-breaking video game has begun… the possibilities for Wii Software are limited only by the imaginations of developers.”
The hope is that Wii Software will pave 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 Wii Software content will launch in early 2008.
Laurent Fischer, Nintendo’s European Marketing Director, explains “Wii Software provides developers with big ideas, rather than big budgets, an easy and very accessible way to create new games and bring them to the marketplace, as well as offering great additional value for Wii owners who will be able to download fresh new game.”
Wii Software is all about reducing barriers to development – very much like Microsoft’s own XNA programme – providing game creators with a simple method by which they can create innovative and inexpensive games and, crucially, distribute them to a wider public.
Further pricing details and more on upcoming Wii Software projects will be announced at a later date.