WiiWare Week Round Up

Mark Graham writes "All this week, UK games development site Develop has been running a series of articles under its 'WiiWare Week' banner, analyzing developer's affections for, and the potential success of Nintendo's upcoming WiiWare digital distribution platform. Most revealing is the claim that Nintendo has been secretly 'waging war' on the likes of Sony and Microsoft by capitalizing on frustrations over cuts to the Xbox Live Arcade royalty rate (down from 70% to 35% for any game making under $4m in revenue) and talking up the service's access to a wide audience to win over development support. It features commentary from both established developers (such as David Braben, creator of Elite, and Scott Orr, creator of Madden) — and indie teams (developers of new WiiWare games Pop and Gravitronix) making launch games for the service."

Comments

$4m?

[CSMatt]

Most revealing is the claim that Nintendo has been secretly 'waging war' on the likes of Sony and Microsoft by capitalizing on frustrations over cuts to the Xbox Live Arcade royalty rate (down from 70% to 35% for any game making under $4m in revenue) It can't be that difficult to make 4 millidollars on Xbox Live.

Re:$4m?

[lexarius]

Personally, I was wondering what the conversion rates on dollar-meters were.

Apparently, it's about 8.43 euro-feet. Or around 880 yen-cubits.

Re:$4m?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why don't you use more traditional measures? Can you tell me what it is in pounds sterling-furlongs? I need to know within a fortnight.

Re:$4m?

[AKAImBatman]

What is the etymology of that practice? I mean, how in the world does the word "thousand" get abbreviated to the letter "m"? I

I blame the Romans. Romanes Eunt Domus!

(This post copyright MMVIII)

Re:$4m?

[GoodbyeBlueSky1]

People called Romanes they go the house?

Re:omg wiii!

[snowful]

um, not if a girl is doing the saying

Re:omg wiii!

[sleeponthemic]

Its way better to play with your own Wii. A much more ecstatic sense of achievement at the end of a game.