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Wario Ware Grabs Edinburgh Games Festival Award
Thanks to BBC News for its article discussing GBA title Wario Ware's victory in the Edge Awards at this week's Edinburgh International Games Festival. The official webpage explains that the award honors "a willingness to prioritise creativity over a narrowly focused commercial appeal", and Margaret Robertson of Edge Magazine says of Wario Ware: "It's a game which hinges on the kind of video game literacy that millions of people across the world have built up without even realising it." Other nominees for the award included Katamari Damacy, In Memoriam, and Viewtiful Joe.
It's very similar to the game Bishi Bashi Special which came out in 1998 according to GameFAQs. I'm not ratting on Nintendo for ripping off Konami or anything, I think it's great that they're trying to focus on less explored ideas. If the award really was for prioritizing 'creativity', then Katamari Damacy should easily have taken it.
I went to a couple of shows at the EGF. There was an XBox Live show which was awful, and another event at the national museum called 'Go Play Games' which was also a bit awful. They had a bunch of games from the past year or so, but not really an exceptional selection by any means. The only ones that interested me where Donkey Konga which my friend owns anyway, and Outrun 2 which I'd already played (and crashed) at the XBox Live show previously. I suppose it would be interesting if you were a parent wanting to take your kid somewhere but realisticly I don't quite see the point of the whole exercise.
Trust me, I'm a doctor.
Capcom isnt shying away from Nintendo. Where did you get that?
Viewtiful Joe was quite a big success on Gamecube, it's not strange that Capcom wants to port it to the PS2.
And Nintendo hasnt actually lost marketshare in a long time. They are pretty stable in the 2nd place in overall console race. They definitely havent lost market share since the release of Viewtiful Joe, it happened much earlier than that.