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bdbdbd on 19 March 2008
Wojtas said:
Exactly. However, there is a slight problem, the developers said that they don't want to compete with retro games. On the Wii they will have the same problems, because Nintendo won't just suddenly stop letting out their retro titles. So the problem with the xbla service must be somewhere else. IMO it's all about the royalties.

Well, in WiiWare, they don't compete with retro titles, since they all are in Virtual Console. The problem is also that XBLA has new and old titles mixed, while WiiWare and Virtual Console are separate.

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bdbdbd on 19 March 2008
Wojtas said:
Exactly. However, there is a slight problem, the developers said that they don't want to compete with retro games. On the Wii they will have the same problems, because Nintendo won't just suddenly stop letting out their retro titles. So the problem with the xbla service must be somewhere else. IMO it's all about the royalties.

Well, in WiiWare, they don't compete with retro titles, since they all are in Virtual Console. The problem is also that XBLA has new and old titles mixed, while WiiWare and Virtual Console are separate.

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mrstickball on 19 March 2008

Considering the article is wrong about XBLA developer revenues...I fail to see the legitimacy of the article.

Furthermore, Nintendo could actually care about the WiiWare system by upgrading the internal flash memory of every new Wii from 512mb (which is just about as useless as a X360 arcade's mem. card for Arcade downloads) to atleast 2gb.

If Nintendo did that, that'd show a commitment.

Also, XNA is free. Remember? That's less, as far as I remember, than the Nintendo Dev kits for WiiWare :)



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thetonestarr on 19 March 2008
bdbdbd said:
Wojtas said:
Exactly. However, there is a slight problem, the developers said that they don't want to compete with retro games. On the Wii they will have the same problems, because Nintendo won't just suddenly stop letting out their retro titles. So the problem with the xbla service must be somewhere else. IMO it's all about the royalties.

 

Well, in WiiWare, they don't compete with retro titles, since they all are in Virtual Console. The problem is also that XBLA has new and old titles mixed, while WiiWare and Virtual Console are separate.

Correct! WiiWare and Virtual Console are entirely seperated from each other, so it'll be easier for them to not compete with each other.

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Resident_Hazard on 19 March 2008

Nintendo really needs to get off their ass about getting a harddrive to the damn Wii. Any kind of harddrive or external storage support, so long as the games are accessible directly off the drive or storage device and the channels menu is expandable to allow for increasing content.



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outlawauron on 19 March 2008

@ mrstickball

I agree. And retro and new titles are separted. I don't see the advantage for WiiWare other than the cheaper dev kits. XBLA and PSN have proven to be successful for small devs.



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mesoteto on 19 March 2008

^it wouldn't have to expand--just throw up a window for it then go in and pick the game



 

disolitude on 19 March 2008

I'd love a handjob from Reggie...maybe I should become a independant game developer...



__XBrawlX__ on 19 March 2008

Nintendo is leading the Handhelds, the Consoles, and soon the downloadable game service! Nintendo is slowing regaining it's monopoly it hasn't had since the Snes days!



 

 

 

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mrstickball on 19 March 2008

Xbrawl, I hate to say it....But it'll take a long time for Nintendo to overtake Microsoft for the downloadable games market.

Nintendo has sold an estimated $62.5m in Virtual Console sales since launch. The Xbox Live Arcade service has sold more than double that since it's inception - and grossed more revenue in 2007 than VC has done, LTD.

And that's fairly telling, atleast to me: We're talking Zelda, Mario, and other uber-IPs that have most likely sold the bulk of that (look at Sonic on XBLA to see how well comparibles have done - fairly well).

But when WiiWare comes up, it faces more problems than PSN and XBLA face - memory limitations, lower userbase, and unknown game sizes - how many WiiWare titles is a person going to fit on a 512mb internal card that already has VC games on it, and save states?



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