March 14th, 2008 ~ WiiWare a better platform?
Developer Comments ‘XBLA Is Full Of Shit’
Commenting anonymously to Develop may developers have revealed their thoughts on Wii Ware, and how it compares to other download services.
One developer commented “Nintendo has made it very clear to us that we’ll not only be making a better royalty rate from WiiWare games, but we’ll also have a better chance of selling games,” thus revealing why many developers may choose the service over the other two console equivalents. “The service won’t be clogged up with the retro titles that have blighted the chances of many independent studios on Xbox Live Arcade,” he went on to say (obviously forgetting about Virtual Console).
However, not all developers were as kind in regards to the multitude of retro games on Xbox Live Arcade. “Frankly, we’re not looking at making games for Xbox Live Arcade because the service is full of shit,” another WiiWare developer irately revealed.
Comments from our old site:
Monkey Rimmer on Friday 14th March 2008 16:21:
Hear Here!!! There have been some genuinely fun games on XBLA, but the likes of Frogger, Centepede et. al. really should be left in the archives! I'm looking forward to what Nintendo and the developers bring to WiiWare... hopefully there'll be some quality stuff to lose my life with! ;)
Ben on Friday 14th March 2008 17:00:
For the most part the retro titles really aren't my thing, but I don't see a problem of them being there if they are hidden away in their own section. The only obvious fault with XBLA is the somewhat messy presentation. From a developer perspective things might be quite different. However, it's a bit rich to criticise Microsoft on this matter when Nintendo are lagging years behind and the current Wii offering is entirely retro games that you can't even preview!