Our Nintendo loving brothers and sisters in the EU have been regularly seen delays with game releases in their territory. Occasionally they’ll get something that North America doesn’t (like Tingle’s RPG). One of those EU specific joys they currently get to experience are Virtual Console games for the Commodore 64.
Infendo reader, Instant Awesome, shares his terrifying story with us:
A couple of weeks ago, My Wii stopped working. It would turn on, but I would just get a black screen that never advanced, and the Wii Remotes would not connect. I tried resetting the power supply, because something similar happened once in the past, and resetting the power supply fixed it last time. This time, however, no such luck.
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It may be doing business in stylish new places and selling consoles to fresh new faces, but Mario, Zelda and Metroid still run the show at Nintendo. Over the last year, fans have been treated to proper new titles from each of Nintendo’s three elite franchises, not to mention an additional handheld Zelda.
The last time this happened? Try 199-never.
But as great as it’s been, it is also representative of a trend that needs to change. Mario, Link and Samus can only carry the company so far, as recent disappointments have proven. So why not look to your bench, Nintendo? You’ve got other great players dying to get time on the field.
From my humble estimation, these are the five franchises most capable of an innovative “revolution” and an immediate contribution on Wii.
According to Nintendo, 40% of Wii users have gone online. Assuming that the total number of people that bought internet strictly for their Wii (not likely) and/or are “borrowing” their neighbor’s wireless signal (more likely than you’d think) adds up to a generous 5% of Wii owners, this means that at least a third of Wii users have a computer, a router, a broadband internet connection, and a willingness to go online with their console. That demographic is ideal for online gaming.
While probably only a tenth or less of plugged-in Wii users would regularly play online games if they were handled on a per-game basis and quietly tucked away within each game’s title menu with nary a word spoken hence, a focused campaign from Nintendo to connect its Wii users in a centralized service - maybe dress it up extra adorable, smattered with Miis and smarm - could crack the typically-reclusive “casual market” open like an egg. And soon, God willing, most of the world could be shrieking racial epithets into their headsets.
With a look similar to Neverwinter Nights, Call for Heroes: Pompolic Wars has been announced for Wii and is due for release in Q4 2007. It’s being developed by Quotix Software, a games developer based in Serbia and Montenegro and will also be released for PC this summer.
It’s great to see a PC-style RPG coming to Wii, but having never heard of Quotix Software before this, we’ll have to wait to see how it will turn out.
Does Wii need PC-style RPG games?
Just a quick thought about third party games on the Wii:
Is the fact that there is a lack of decent third party titles on the Wii the fault of Nintendo for its decision to go low-tech Wiimote control, or do third party developers today generally suck at thinking up new ideas?
Not an entirely fair question, I admit — it’s more of a blatantly biased diatribe with no basis in fact — so think of it as a call to arms to third party developers to think outside the box. It’s almost masochistic to develop a “next-gen” title today given the amount of money and risk involved. Their wallets will thank them.
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