Nintendo Wii Fanboy

A press release on publisher JoWood's website reveals that some kind of Sam & Max game is planned for release on the Wii. According to (the Google translation of) the release, as an upcoming project, "Sam & Max will soon also for Nintendo Wii to hunt criminals."

The press release describes the company's future plans as "adapting" their successful licenses; we don't know if this is going to be a port of Telltale Games' excellent episodic Sam & Max adventure game series, which JoWood publishes as a retail collection, or a new game. Our guess is on existing content, just because that's easier. Also, Telltale has hired Wii-knowledgable staff for something or other.

Wii Ware seems like an obvious choice due to the fact that it fits the existing Sam & Max distribution model (and, again, Telltale's own actions). Being total skeptics, we expect this, if it exists, to be on a disc, because each installment on the PC clocks in at about 250mb, which would eat up the Wii's storage space.

We've embedded the part of the press release containing Sam & Max info, in both German and Google-English versions, after the break.

[IR-News]: Agatha Christie auf Nintendo Wii
Liezen, Österreich, 10. Jänner 2008; Agatha Christie „Und dann gabs keines mehr" ist der erste Titel, der von JoWooD für Nintendo® Wii™ umgesetzt wird. Neben der PC-Community ermöglicht JoWooD auch Nintendo Fans Agatha Christies Fälle zu lösen.

JoWooD plant weitere seiner erfolgreichen Lizenzen aus dem Adventure Games für Nintendo® Wii™ zu adaptieren. Eines der nächsten Projekte: Sam & Max. Als Adventure des Jahres, gewählt von den Lesern des deutschen Computerspielmagazins „PC Games" (zu finden in der aktuellen Printausgabe 2/2008), gehen Sam & Max bald auch bei Nintendo® Wii™ auf Verbrecherjagd.

[IR News]: Agatha Christie on Nintendo Wii
Liezen, Austria, 10 January 2008; Agatha Christie "And then gabs no more" is the first title of JoWooD ® for Nintendo Wii ™ implemented. In addition to the PC community JoWooD also allows Nintendo fans Agatha Christie cases to solve.

JoWooD plans further its successful licenses from the Adventure Games for Nintendo ® Wii ™ to adapt. One of the next projects: As Sam & Max adventure of the year, chosen by the readers of the German computer game magazine "PC Games" (2 2008), Sam & Max will soon also for Nintendo ® Wii ™ to hunt criminals .

[Via GoNintendo]