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Details on Nintendo's Original Downloadable Content
HaymarketRiot writes "N'Gai Croal from Newsweek has given us a broad outline of Nintendo's plans for downloadable original content. To be called 'WiiWare', the company will be selling these all-new games via the Wii's Virtual Store for Wii points. Not only are they looking to big-name developers for these titles, but small garage-style shops as well. 'Shorter, original, more creative games from small teams with big ideas; these are the buzzwords that you'll be hearing from Nintendo when its Wednesday announcement goes wide. Fils-Aime told us that while Nintendo, as the retailer, would itself determine the appropriate pricing for each game on a per-title bases, the games themselves would not be vetted by Nintendo. Instead, Nintendo would only check the games for bugs and compatibility, with developers and publishers responsible for securing [a rating lower than AO with the ESRB].' For more, N'Gai has an interview with Reggie Fils-Aime on the subject. Unfortunately, we won't be seeing a finished product until 2008."
This would be a perfect indie game. This isn't off-topic because it would definitely appeal to the youth of our age in choosing a 'cool' thing to make a game about.
It'd be an elaborate game of keep away. One player holds an iPhone for a round. They would move 50% faster through the maze, but his opponents would be have some sort of special power. The goal is to to run around to all the different 'sites' on the screen and correct all the misinformation about the iPhone before the release date. When you're at the site you have to do different things, like shake the controller, or draw pie charts and diagrams, to correct all the bad information that the Microsoft-loving press generates.
Meh, I bought 3 MS mice in a row, all different make and model, and they all suffered from the same flaw: A god-awful scroll wheel. Strangely, the crappiness of the wheel was proportional to the cost of the mouse. Similarly my xbox 360 controller would have been perfect if not for the sloppy crosshair. Both Xboxes suffer from high failure rates, for one reason or another. As for your MS net gear, it's probably just MS branded.