Nintendo enhance Wii dev tools

[wraggster]

Nintendo's Takeshi Shimada, who last week spoke at GDC about the development of Brain Training, revealed that enhanced development tools are in the making for Wii.

Shimada spoke of a development application called NintendoWare. Being made by Nintendo and HAL, NintendoWare emulates Wii hardware on a PC so that developers can sample parts of their games without having to load it to a Wii dev machine.

Shimada also revealed that a new easy-to-incorporate fur-shading effect is in the works - we're thinking effects similar to those in Star Fox Adventures could be the result.

The motion recognition could also see an upgrade, with a new predictive input tool that uses prior movement to predict your next motion. Sounds complex.

And you Wii might be able to read the new and weather headlines to you soon, with a text-to-speech tool also in the works.

All we want is more games to look as good as Super Mario Galaxy which, at the moment, is graphically light-years ahead of anything else on Wii. Is Nintendo keeping the "How to make good graphics on Wii" to itself or something?

via cvg

[paul1991]

The NintendoWare was shipped with The first of the wii dev kits. This is nothing new.