Is Nintendo Ignoring WiiWare?

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Before WiiWare became a reality Nintendo was telling everyone that would listen that the service would revolutionise the way people purchase and play video games.

Such was the company’s enthusiasm for the notion of digital distribution, the hype surrounding the launch of WiiWare was almost deafening. It was hard not to get carried away by the tidal wave of optimism.

The service has now been available for a good few months and we’ve seen some awesome games. LostWinds, World of Goo, Pop, Alien Crush Returns, Toki Tori, Space Invaders Get Even, Mega Man 9 and Final Fantasy: My Life as a King are all excellent games that are worthy of your undivided attention.

However, it’s rather telling that not a single one of these titles is produced or published by Nintendo. In fact, the company’s support for its much-hyped service has been mysteriously lacking of late.

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  • ttam

    Well, if there are great games out for use, why should Nintendo create some more of these? Especially, since they might want to put that effort into something else.

    Put it this way, we have tons of great WiiWare games to play, why should we have more? Its also great having third parties seeing the full potential of the Wii.

  • CoolMaster

    Actually Nintendo published some Wiiware games, the Art Style games are published by Nintendo.