At some point this year Nintendo will finally release it's own downloadable game platform called WiiWare. With the success of the Xbox Live Arcade, growth of casual gaming (see alternative source), and the inherent casual nature of the Wii as a gaming console, WiiWare seems to be the perfect fit.
In case you're a bit wary, however, here's a rundown of why WiiWare will be great.
Nintendo has announced the SNES and Super Famicom games gracing the Nintendo Switch Online library this month, and there are some gems to enjoy.
Strange headline, as I thought the star of the show was Super RType. I almost bought RType Dimensions EX this last month and was just thinking, man I wish we had the SNES one somewhere on Switch. That's where I got my start w the series and I was beyond excited to see it drop this week!
Following the Wii U and 3DS servers being taken offline, Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and Ghosts are officially dead.
Call of Duty players are jumping into Black Ops 2 for the final time before its Wii U servers go offline for good.
I don't know about this one, my fellow gamers. it's an interesting idea, but with the storage of the Wii being so limited, how would someone build a library of DL games? What's the plan here? SD cards?
I suppose time will tell . . . I've been wrong before, and I have been known to lie.
Yeah I was thinking about the storage too, I don't like deleting games I payed for, 10 games of 40 Mb is 400 Mb and thats almost a full Wii storage space.
I'm looking forward to Wii Ware for sure. Square Enix is already having a game out on it and there will probably be a lot of indie devs and a lot of odd type games which will be fun. :)
"Games aren't limited to 40MB"
OMG that's so cool /sarcasm
That's not a reason for it to be cool, that's a reason for it not sucking. He says there will be epic games on WiiWare... gimme a break. That'll never happen, as the wii's 512MB limit won't allow. I bet most of the Wii Ware games will be mini-games, even with Square on its side.
yeah i'm worried about the STORAGE space as well but at least they are linked to the console so they are technically 'yours' forever unless you UNLINK your account and that would suck. I'm sure they could run stuff off the SD card if they wanted to. I mean a firmware update could add a button by the clock or something that lets you view channels you have saved on your SD card. Also considering that SMASH BROS BRAWL allows you to save stuff (pictures) to the SD card means that there could be hope for this yet. Hell maybe devs will let us save game that require a ton of space straight to the SD and load from the SD card even. I mean ELEBITS takes up a lot of room once you start creating your own levels, and i would like to save that area on my wii and just save straight to the SD card (i got 1GB card for 10bux when the wii came out, on sale)
Hell they could make a EXTERNAL harddrive if they wanted, but then we would be technically going to the XBOX formula. I mean with XBOX all devs have to assume you have no harddrive at all, and those that do can use Live to its full extent, those that done, well they can't. So if the option was there i prolly woulda bout the harddive on impulse, but as of right now i still have a couple thousand free blocks on my WII.
ALSO sorry for the rant, but i wanna play that FF:CC:TYK&TPL on wii-ware. I really didn't like FF:CC on the gamecube cause to play with my friends we needed so much harddware, but i may even pick it up on the WII and definitly pick up the WIIWARE since it looks real interesting. I just hope its not 20bux..