Nintendo Wii Fanboy

Last month, the rumor gained some steam, and now Level Up's N'Gai Croal says it's official: Nintendo will launch WiiWare, a new service for original downloadable Wii games. Like the Virtual Console, WiiWare will be part of the Wii Shop channel and will be available for (unknown amounts of) Wii points. Croal can also confirm that it's not just the big names coming out with content for WiiWare -- indie developers are more than welcome.

Of course, with all good news, there's also bound to be a little bad news ... and here it's that WiiWare probably won't be available until 2008. Still, it sounds like it could be worth the wait.

Capcom's Christian Svensson, Sr. Director of Strategic Planning & Research, recently sat down with Gamasutra to discuss everything from downloadable content to the company's increasing success in the West. Of course, the subject of the Wii came up, particularly in regard to original downloadable content. Original VC content may be an issue, Svensson said, due to file size limitations, but Capcom is also considering other options, like compilation titles for retail. We'd like to hear the word 'budget' in there somewhere, but it's too early to be cranky; we'll wait and see what they come up with.

Resident Evil 4 redux came up as well, and Svensson defended the company's choice to release the title on the GameCube originally. "A lot of people knock the decision to put it on GameCube, but at the same time, Resident Evil 4 was the number-one selling title for the GameCube in 2005, which is hard for a third-party," Svensson retorted, and we fully agree that that the combination of GC and Resident Evil 4 was a match made in heaven. We wait with bated breath for the Wii version.