BioWare considering Wii, PSP development

21 Comments by Randy Nelson Jun 20th 2008 3:00PM
Filed under: Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Business

Mass Effect creator BioWare likes console development. In fact, it would like to do more of it – on more platforms – so implies Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood project lead Mark Darrah in an interview with Gamasutra.

"We're looking into Wii and PSP as a company," Darrah revealed, although "nothing's been decided." BioWare is also intent on broadening its portfolio, Darrah says.

While its forte is definitely in the RPG genre, we have seen solid effort from BioWare in the action category with MDK2 for Sega Dreamcast and PlayStation 2. Company co-founder Greg Zeschuck has previously told Joystiq that he's keen to take another stab at the genre ... it's just a matter of clearing its already very full plate first and catching the right idea.

Hopefully this will mean some nice WRPGs for Wii

Am I right to take "broadening their portfolio" as separate from Wii/PSP development? I.e., non-WRPG Bioware games?

can't wait till they release sonic chronicles, and I'd be interested on what they could bring to the wii

weird combination to do Wii and PSP.

thekitchensink said: Hopefully this will mean some nice WRPGs for Wii

I hope something less typical of a WRPG, not JRPG-like, but something new.

Let's hope they don't mean create a game for PSP, do a quick port, and have it on the Wii also.

Awesome. Please bring KotOR 3 to the Wii.

I'd kill for some Neverwinter nights on my PSP :D I have no idea how they'd do it XD But man something like that would be tits and then some. Something D&D prease!!!!

Don't get your hopes up just yet.  Going by the current trends, this looks like nothing more than an empty pledge of support for the Wii made to satiate their shareholders, like Valve has been doing for a year and a half and counting.  Give them no credit whatsoever until they announce something concrete.

 All they mean is that they're already developing for 360, DS, PC, and presumably PS3 now that they've been EA-ified.  Those are the only two systems left, save PS2.