Wii Software - Game Creation Tool For Wii, Detailed.

[Jale]

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.

[Ryanfaescotland]

Hmm I'm skeptical about this I'm afriad. Games developers have always been able to make their own games regardless of if the company has released software to do so or no. I guess this has the added bonus of making it easy for developers to share and even profit from their games which is deffinatly a big plus but do you not think Nintendo are maybe doing this to try and control and profit from unauthorised developers?

[zeldafreak1223]

wait, how would this work? do you program the games on the wii, like tediously typing out code with a wiimote? or do you program it on the computer and somehow link to the wii? why can't underground system dev. remain how it was: underground. seriously, program a game, use a bunch of illegal tools to convert it to system format, burn it to a disc (or minidisc in gamecubes case), play it, and distribute it. no, instead we now have to make mainstream junk that anyone can put out that will be downloadable for a price. WHY?

[alcoatjez]

The system is meant for developers to be able to bring out their games on the Wii through the shopping channel.
The devs will use the tools Nintendo provides to create their games and offer them to the shopping channel. This has nothing to do with homebrew, it's just for gaming companies.