Nintendo of America: 100 WiiWare titles in development, more

Nintendo of America‘s senior director of project development Tom Prata recently gave out information about the WiiWare service. He let slip that  there are around 100 games in development in various stages of completion as well as a few other interesting facts about the service. To find out more, head on over to the full article

 

How do you like Nintendo’s WiiWare so far? While the service was generally well received in North America, a number of important questions regarding the service have yet to be answered. Thankfully, Nintendo of America‘s senior director of project development Tom Prata recently gave out information regarding WiiWare’s future games, programmers utilizing the Wii console’s abilities in the games, and more.

Prata discussed the future titles to be offered on WiiWare saying that there are around 100 games in development in various stages of completion. He also noted that they plan on releasing these video games on Monday like they do with Virtual Console titles:

Our plan is to make new WiiWare games available on Mondays, as we do with Virtual Console titles. We have not set a limit to the number of games that will launch on any given Monday. Rather, we are working with developers and their production schedules to bring the products to consumers in a timely manner.

He also talked about the different aspects of the Wii that programmers can utilize when designing games for the WiiWare service. Prata noted that developers can utilize all the features that disc-based games have, including, Wi-Fi, wiiConnect24, as well as motion controls. In addition, they also have the ability to use Miis in the games which adds a nice personal touch to the application.

Finally, he discussed why Nintendo didn’t see fit to release any first-party WiiWare games during its North American debut. While some may see this as a move to disprove the issue that only games from Nintendo seem to be selling well, Prata didn’t see it as such. So before we go, here’s what he had to say:

As we looked at the launch line up, we wanted to provide games that are widely appealing to all consumers — something for everyone to enjoy. Equally diverse are the creators of these games representing companies of different sizes and cultures.

These companies demonstrate the range of WiiWare developers from a large publisher like Square Enix, to established independent developers such as High Voltage and Frontier to small indie developers like XGen.

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Via IGN