Nicalis has announced via Twitter that it has decided to cancel publishing La-Mulana for WiiWare in both North America and Europe. The game was originally ported to WiiWare by Nicalis on June 21st in Japan.
Regarding La-Mulana, we have chosen to cancel publishing in North America and Europe for WiiWare.
London-based Icon Games has revealed that Nintendo has asked them to promptly remove WiiWare sales data that the developer posted on its own blog. Icon Games had listed the sales figures for all the formats it develops for but was told by Nintendo to remove digital Wii transactions.
“Yesterday Nintendo got in touch to ask us to remove the figures for the WiiWare titles from the blog. Apparently they don’t allow developers to publish the sales numbers of their self-published titles.”
“As to why, I can’t really be sure – are they scared to reveal how their online services perform or do they just dislike developers being able to run effective businesses? It is a tricky one – and incredibly unfair and damaging to indie developers publishing on Nintendo stores.
“I don’t believe Nintendo are necessary alone in this policy, but I believe they are by far the most draconian in enforcing it. I have seen many different reports from developers for games on XBLA, PSN, Steam and so on with details of sales figures, but never anything for a Nintendo store.”
It appears as though the huge library of Gamecube titles could be coming to Wii U as downloadable titles on WiiWare according to Nintendo of America executive Amber McCollom. I’m not too sure if McCollom simply misspoke, or if she got slightly mixed up. Either way it would be fantastic if Gamecube titles did make it to WiiWare on Wii U. Hopefully Nintendo will see fit to confirm something in the not too distant future.
“GameCube discs will not be compatible with Wii U, but a number of the games that were playable on GameCube can be downloaded from WiiWare.”
Tip: Yemi Keji
Nintendo of America have officially announced that Wii owners will once again be able to download select WiiWare demo’s starting from November 22nd.
The initial lineup of demos available on Nov. 22 includes Bit.Trip Fate, And Yet It Moves, ThruSpace and Jett Rocket. Additional demos will be added on Mondays and each will remain available on the Wii Shop Channel for a limited time.
Nintendo have officially announced that they’re adding a new service to the Wii Shop Channel which allows gamers to download demo’s of specific WiiWare titles starting November 5th.
Nintendo have unfortunately confirmed that they will no longer be giving away WiiWare game demo’s.
Whilst Nintendo has officially ceased producing WiiWare demo’s, the company has admitted that there’s a slight possibility of them producing WiiWare demo’s sometime in the near future.
In November last year Nintendo was testing out demos in the shop channels. Allowing people to get a taste of such titles like World of Goo, Pokemon Rumble and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord for free.
These demos have now been stopped and Nintendo has confirmed that the demo, demo has ended. When asked if WiiWare demos would make a return Nintendo said; “We’re looking at our results and deciding our next steps.”
The iconic Monkey Island series is coming to Nintendo WiiWare in North America on Monday, July 27th at a cost of 1000 Wii Points.
The first episode of the highly anticipated Tales Of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhals is set to hit the North American WiiWare service this Monday.
Nintendo have announced that they’re set to release three versions of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon For WiiWare.
The latest popular Mystery Dungeon game will be released as three different versions: Pokémon: Mysterious Dungeon – Proceed Forward! Flame Adventurers!, Pokémon: Mysterious Dungeon – Let’s Go! Storm Adventurers, and Pokémon: Mysterious Dungeon – Focus! Light Adventurers. The main difference between each version is the different starter Pokémon to choose from and different Pokémon base location.
Following Microsoft’s decision to allow consumers to purchase its Xbox live Arcade games on Amazon.com, Nintendo have now started to promote and sell its WiiWare games on the popular online retail site.
Whilst its offerings are fairly sparse at present – only World of Goo is available for download at this precise moment in time, you can be sure that Nintendo will effectively begin to market and distribute its wealth of WiiWare titles on Amazon.com.
