Having fully recovered from his one-man mission to review as many WiiWare games inside 24 hours as is humanly possible, Game|Life's Chris Kohler is back with his thoughts about WiiWare in general. His verdict? Not bad, but it lacks crucial features that would elevate the service to the standards already set by Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network.

As well as doubting the value of Lonpos, Star Soldier R and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As a King in his commentary, Kohler's main bones of contention are two gripes that we're all too familiar with: the lack of demos and a storage device. As he points out, "When you buy a WiiWare game, you can't try it first, and if you don't like it, you're totally boned because you can't sell it to someone else or trade it in. WiiWare needs demos. And I bet you anything it's not going to get them."

It saddens us to say so, but we have to agree with that last bit, and a hard drive looks just as unlikely right now.

Source:  

agreed.

yep this is a problem but as long as people do a little research first they should be ble to get what the want and not a lemon

man those japanese launch titles are weak.

oh well, there are like 200 wiiware titles in development. hopefully like 1 in 10 will be worth it.

the storage I got it handled with an SD card, I agree with the demos. Maybe they could add wiiware demos to the ENC

Yes. Free demos are a real need.

Agree with the demos.

I'm not planning on getting any WiiWare games at the moment, but it would be nice to be able to try some of them out (demos!)

When you buy a WiiWare game, you can't try it first, and if you don't like it, you're totally boned because you can't sell it to someone else or trade it in. WiiWare needs demos.

In other news, the sun came up this morning and pie tastes great!