Some interesting news about Wiiware

While listening to the Nintendo Voice Chat, I stumbled upon an apology from IGN regarding the Wiiware Launch.You see, at 16:20 it was announced High Voltage's V.I.P Casino Blackjack was NOT slated to appear on the service May 12th, the game that was to appear was to be Gyrostarr. Not even High Voltage was aware that the game they had announced for launch would be delayed by a month or more (due to Nintendo's own ''prevent the flood'' policy) simply because the bigger forces wanted another casual game down the hatch at launch.
Why the change? Why would Nintendo force a casual game at their price point over a game that the developers completed and had ready to go? Simple, because they own the service, and they control the flow. So instead of giving developers a heads up over when their final product should be done, they let unpolished games like V.I.P. hit the service. Stop blaming developers, start blaming Nintendo. We do not live in 1995, this method of control is outdated and by far the biggest disgrace since the famous ''RPG gamers live in their mother's basement'' uttered during the N64 era. Now we have proof, lets stir their pudding.Some interesting news about Wiiware
Meh. I don't have a problem with Nintendo trying to control what comes out for their download service. It's not at all surprising that they would want a casual-style title like Casino Blackjack to round out the offerings. I'm sure that at least for the initial launch, they wanted to have a well-rounded selection of games. Launch games are always affected by the forced static release date - it's always been that way.



Besides, I'm pretty sure pudding stirring is a felony.Some interesting news about Wiiware
Heh, I'm still waiting for Everyone's Pokemon Farm. But, at least it's conforting to know that these games will eventually grace the Wii Shop Channel.
High Voltage is to blameLet me get this right. They made two games, one of them was a great game in their minds and one was not good but they offered it up anyhow to Nintendo.Nintendo saw what they were trying to do, High Voltage wanted to release one game that was good and then add shovelware and get people to buy it from name recognition. So they said no way Francis and released the card game.If the Casino game wasn't done correctly it shouldn't have been in Nintendo's hands ready to distribute.Thank you for this eye opening look on the High Voltage Studio!
[QUOTE=''Jaysonguy''] High Voltage is to blameLet me get this right. They made two games, one of them was a great game in their minds and one was not good but they offered it up anyhow to Nintendo.Nintendo saw what they were trying to do, High Voltage wanted to release one game that was good and then add shovelware and get people to buy it from name recognition. So they said no way Francis and released the card game.If the Casino game wasn't done correctly it shouldn't have been in Nintendo's hands ready to distribute.Thank you for this eye opening look on the High Voltage Studio![/QUOTE]Ehh, I dunno. It may have been from name recognition, but the game is far from ''shovelware.'' according to IGN, it looks decent and plays well, there's just little to it. Gyrostarr will still be sweet. This isn't the fault of High Voltage. Wait, why are we placing blame? Nothing wrong happened!What Nintendo wanted to do was appeal to alot of different people. The hardcore crowd had two games (LostWinds, FF) and the more ''casual'' (god, I hate that word) had three. Defend your Castle was middle ground. They were reaching out to a wider audience by having more variety to the games, nothing more. Besides, Gyrostarr will come out soon anyway. It's not like they scrapped it. Pace yourselves with the downloads already.
How intricate does blackjack get anyway? I know there are a couple of different types like traditional or spanish 21 but its all blackjack. Draw cards until you get 21 or close, hope not to bust and that the house doesn't beat you.
[QUOTE=''Arkthemaniac'']Ehh, I dunno. It may have been from name recognition, but the game is far from ''shovelware.'' according to IGN, it looks decent and plays well, there's just little to it. Gyrostarr will still be sweet. This isn't the fault of High Voltage. Wait, why are we placing blame? Nothing wrong happened![/QUOTE] Just to be clear, it isn't High Voltage Studio for the game having their product released earlier. It is it their fault for providing their product to Nintendo they felt wasn't ready. Nintendo doesn't hold onto source code, the studios do. So if Nintendo has the product, it means the studio built it for Nintendo to distribute