CA Dreamin’: California Games to be download and retail SKUs on Wii… and PS3
Apparently the dual-SKU model ain’t just for Warhawk, too. Talking to PALGN, System 3 CEO Mark Cale mentioned that the Epyx title California Games rumored to come to the Wii, is coming to the Wii. Twice. “You’ll be able to buy it online,” he says, “and you’ll be able to buy it as a retail product, too.“
Dang. Someone reevaluate the economics of what Peter Dille said about this dual-SKU thing.
And speaking of Peter Dille, Mark also confirms that California Games will be coming to the PS3 as well. Twice. He says it can/will be bought on the PlayStation Network and as a physical retail copy. Mark doesn’t mention about any extra goodies for buying a blob of optical plastic (either the Wii optical plastic or the PS3 optical plastic), however.
At this, we can also suspect that the California Games coming to the Wii and PS3 isn’t just a simple port of the original, Amiga-era Epyx title, but potentially a full-blown new-gen revamp (or else why dedicate blobs of optical plastic to the title?). Potentially, it could mean motion-sensing controls, high-def graphics (depending on platform), yada yada, but no concrete details have surfaced yet.
Cale did mention that the Wii version would be “playable online through the Wii,” though. So there’s online multiplayer, too.
Apparently the dual-SKU model ain’t just for Warhawk, too. Talking to PALGN, System 3 CEO Mark Cale mentioned that the Epyx title California Games rumored to come to the Wii, is coming to the Wii. Twice. “You’ll be able to buy it online,” he says, “and you’ll be able to buy it as a retail product, too.“
Dang. Someone reevaluate the economics of what Peter Dille said about this dual-SKU thing.
And speaking of Peter Dille, Mark also confirms that California Games will be coming to the PS3 as well. Twice. He says it can/will be bought on the PlayStation Network and as a physical retail copy. Mark doesn’t mention about any extra goodies for buying a blob of optical plastic (either the Wii optical plastic or the PS3 optical plastic), however.
At this, we can also suspect that the California Games coming to the Wii and PS3 isn’t just a simple port of the original, Amiga-era Epyx title, but potentially a full-blown new-gen revamp (or else why dedicate blobs of optical plastic to the title?). Potentially, it could mean motion-sensing controls, high-def graphics (depending on platform), yada yada, but no concrete details have surfaced yet.
Cale did mention that the Wii version would be “playable online through the Wii,” though. So there’s online multiplayer, too.
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