Hudson Entertainment's Director of Marketing made some interesting comments recently regarding the possibility of a new channel going live on the Wii. John Lee, during an interview with Game Informer, replied to a question about original downloadable content on Wii from Hudson with "in the future, you should rephrase that question to: Are there any plans to launch original content on some downloadable service on the Wii, and you might get a different answer."In response to the rumor created by Lee's statement, CVG asked Nintendo to comment on the situation. Nintendo said "We cannot confirm at this time in what format the new content will be delivered, but in the future there will be original games available for download through the Wii Shop." So, we might or might not see an original games channel per se, but we will see original content in some shape or form. Rock!
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1-26-2007 @ 12:55PM
Zan said...
Does this mean we in Europe can play games for SNES that wasn't first released for it?!
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1-26-2007 @ 1:18PM
Rejemy said...
No.
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1-26-2007 @ 1:34PM
Jonathan Harford said...
I had assumed (what with the Virtual Console proving the capability) that they'd start selling "independently developed" games for the Wii.
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1-26-2007 @ 1:50PM
Grok4Spock said...
Original content is what the Wii Ware section of the Wii Shop Channel was created for, not just the browser....
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1-26-2007 @ 3:17PM
Naruhodou said...
Give me, dammit!
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1-26-2007 @ 4:02PM
Quetzalcoatl said...
What they need to do is to allow for flash programmers to make downloadable games, and since Opera already supports flash, it wouldn't be a hard progression. That way users wouldn't have to log in to the programmer's websites (or Wiicade) every time they want to play.
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1-26-2007 @ 4:59PM
andyr said...
This could be a great cross-over with the burgeoning homebrew community. Combine this pool of talent for creativity with the wii-mote/nunchuck and I think we could see some really innovative games.
It's great to see a return to the bedroom games production of the late 80's. So much of the games industry was build on this sort of enterprise, what better place to find fresh games and ideas!
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1-26-2007 @ 5:36PM
Mr Khan said...
I still don't see what's stopping some enterprising hacker from building a Website specifically designed for downloading Games directly to the Wii, in a manner similar to the Shop Channel
Then you would be able to download outside ROMs, MAMEs, and ISOs, ones not available on VC...
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1-26-2007 @ 5:41PM
Alan said...
See, what I want is a monthly service where I can play all the games I want on the Virtual console 24/7. That way, I can choose to borrow the games every month, or simply purchase the ones I want to keep forever.
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1-26-2007 @ 5:44PM
theLoneYoshi said...
I highly doubt that they'll make an "Original Games" channel, but instead make each game a separate channel, a la the virtual console games and the Internet Channel.
Hopefully, they allow the indy developers and the homebrew community to jump on this opportunity because I'm pretty sure that Nintendo said a long time ago that the Revolution was meant for those with the big ideas and not necessarily the big budget.
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1-26-2007 @ 7:56PM
sixtyfps said...
This is old news. The Wii Shop channel is an avenue for more than VC games; hasn't anyone else noticed that the Virtual Console section is actually only part of the Wii Shop channel?
News from October 11th, 2006:
http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19093
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1-27-2007 @ 3:09AM
Rubang B said...
I'm pretty sure the "original games channel" or at least the original component of the shop channel will be where we'll get updates to some VC games with updated graphics and/or online play. The shop channel manual has always had that bit about updating previously downloaded games and nobody knows why yet.
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1-27-2007 @ 9:24PM
Will said...
"Hopefully, they allow the indy developers and the homebrew community to jump on this opportunity because I'm pretty sure that Nintendo said a long time ago that the Revolution was meant for those with the big ideas and not necessarily the big budget."
Bingo. Reggie Fils-Aime has hinted at this before. I can't wait to see what tools Nintendo will present.
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