Archive for May 12th, 2006
Posted on May 12, 2006 09:24:00 PM
Big Support for Wii Virtual Console
Publisher Hudson Soft is supporting Wii’s Virtual Console in a huge way. The third party developer has declared it plans to bring over a hundred titles to Nintendo’s download service, and has already pledged support for the TurboGrafx 16 title Bonk’s Adventure. Hudson owns the rights to numerous franchises, including Bomberman and Adventure Island.
In addition, Hudson says it also plans to acquire rights to publish games from other third parties, those which might not be making their games available on Wii on their own. We’ll keep you guys posted.
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Posted on May 12, 2006 08:53:00 PM
Harvest Moon Coming to Wii
Natsume’s Sr. Director of Operations, Graham Markay, stated that Harvest Moon will be coming to the Nintendo Wii. The game is still very early on in development and is scheduled for release sometime in 2007. Markay states that bringing the franchise to Wii was an “easy decision because the game’s style of play is such a perfect fit with Nintendo Wii’s controller”. Markay couldn’t give any more details because the game is so early in development that he doesn’t even know much about the game itself. While he’s not actually a developer working on the game, he did agree that Harvest Moon would benefit from Nintendo’s WiiConnect24 service for new furniture and item downloads, but said that Natsume still doesn’t plan to support online play in any games because they feel that online play is still a little too unstable.
The harvest moon series has seen a lot of releases on Nintendo systems, 3 of the titles appeared on Gamecube. This comes as a nice addition into our ever growing Wii library. 3rd party support looks to be top notch for the system. Embrace innovation. Wii will change the way games are played. Game on!
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Posted on May 12, 2006 03:26:00 PM
Trauma Center Being Prepared for Wii
Atlus has confirmed that their quirky surgeon simulation game Trauma Center: Second Opinion is “planned for launch” with Nintendo’s next-generation console, Wii.
Though the game was not playable form on the show floor at E3, we will be hearing more information on this title very soon. We’ll keep you updated on this game aathe launch for Nintendo Wii is starting to take shape.
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