WiiWare - Legal Homebrew Coming to Nintendo Wii

[sappo]

Another good owning technique by Nintendo.

It will be like X360 Marketplace.

Good Work, N!

[Category]

Man, are you guys a bit dense? This has NOTHING to do with homebrew. If you read the press release, you would see that the SDK is NOT being given away for free, Nintendo will be charging for all independent games being released throught the WiiWare portal (and Nintendo controls the cost, not the developers), and EVERY SINGLE TITLE will need an ESRB rating to be made available - and it costs money to get rated.

I very much doubt anyone in the homebrew scene will get the chance to put out a game via WiiWare - unless they are very rich little kids. This is more aimed at smaller independent studios with the financial backing to cover these costs.

Homebrew on the Wii will not happen because of this - think of it more like the XBox Live Marketplace - we will have somewhere to PAY for new downloadable games - not make them in your bedroom and sell them on the Wii.

[Demolition49]

stop hating on nintendo, they are again stepping in to areas to try and expand gaming, in the end all companys follow nintendo, so you should be greatful and stop saying wii has crap graphics after you play 2D homebrew on a psp, which is way more under powered than a wii.

[XDelusion]

I hope you can make games or software free too! It would be nice to see open source projects such as GzDOOM make there way to the Wii!

http://grafzahl.drdteam.org/

[Shadowblind]

Nintendo are one step ahead of the homebrew coders, because when titles start appearing Nintendo will make a small profit from the sales and Nintendo will also be monitoring what applications will be released into the general public so the only homebrew titles will most probably be games - Nintendo probably won't allow homebrew applications for emulators as they will lose money from the Virtual Console not selling games. Nintendo have a plan!

Dont worry about that--there would be no way to stop the mods in time...

[ish420ism]

stop hating on nintendo, they are again stepping in to areas to try and expand gaming, in the end all companys follow nintendo, so you should be greatful and stop saying wii has crap graphics after you play 2D homebrew on a psp, which way more under powered than a wii.

I agree that while idiots are bashing the wii graphics, the same idiots praise crappier, 2d graphics, on the psp.
Get a clue guys.
...and that's from the heart

[Cokemusic]

This is what i hate about people's thoughts on the wii.
The graphics are BETTER THAN PS2!
That is NOT "sub standard" graphics!
The Wii is more powerful than the PS2... Everyone who has one knows this.
You probably only watch low-quality youtube video's of the wii and think that's as good as the graphics are.

PLEASE stop saying the Wii has bad graphics people!

LMAO @ Comparing Wii to the PS2 , it was created like what ? 5 + years ago ? The Wii is not far better than the PS2 in terms of performance and that's shocking./

I admit the Wii is a very innovative piece of technology however it's serverly lacking in comparison to the PS3 and Xbox 360 it's.

PS3 VS Wii=FERRAI VS SKODA

Yeah more skodas are sold but they still suck , like Wii

I agree that while idiots are bashing the wii graphics, the same idiots praise crappier, 2d graphics, on the psp.
Get a clue guys.
...and that's from the heart

2D games are only a small % of the homebrew on offer , i'm not even gonna goin into it . If you look @ homebrew communities you'll find that it is very diverse , search for an hour and your only scratching the surface of it.

[Homerun]

Another reason why The Big N PWNS

[TeenDev]

Hey Nintendo! How does it feel to have your first good idea?

BTW, Homebrew has always been legal

[-=me=-]

Even if this was free homebrew, keep in mind Nintendo would crush all emulators or flashing/modding apps. It could not possibly be as useful as the PSP