Nintendo offer WiiWare demos

Mike Bantick
Friday, 27 November 2009 05:42

Your IT - Entertainment

Nintendo has announced that eighteen months after launching the service, WiiWare games have not topped 100 available titles.  Furthermore Nintendo has finally dipped its toe into the world of free downloadable demos for these games, something its competitors have been doing all along.

Nintendo has sent through some updated information about the offerings on the Wii Shop Channel, it includes news about WiiWare now topping 100 titles available as well as the ability – for a limited time at least – to download free demos of games in the WiiWare range.

Nintendo announces that almost eighteen months since the launch of WiiWare™, there are now more than one hundred WiiWare titles available to download on the Wii Shop Channel. Also available, for a limited time only, are free demos of some of the best examples of WiiWare. WiiWare is a game download service, accessible via the Wii Shop Channel, where users can download a variety of new games in exchange for Nintendo Points.

The Wii Shop Channel is free to access and is where WiiWare and Virtual Console™ games can be downloaded. Whereas Virtual Console allows consumers to download classic games, WiiWare offers brand new titles and is also an opportunity for video game developers to create new games for Wii™.
For a limited time, Wii owners will be able to download demos of some WiiWare tiles for free on the Wii Shop Channel. All that users need to do is visit the WiiWare section of the Wii Shop Channel and look for DEMO under SEARCH BY GENRE. The demos will be available to download until 31 January 2010.
 
The following are the demos currently available to try:

• - NyxQuest™ (Over The Top Games): Experience the story of Nyx, an enigmatic winged girl that must descend from heaven in search of her missing friend Icarus.
• - FINAL FANTASY® CRYSTAL CHRONICLES®: My Life as a Darklord™ (Square Enix): Step into the royal shoes of the Darklord's daughter as she installs traps and monsters inside her tower to fight back the endless waves of invading adventurers in this world-conquest RPG.
• - BIT.TRIP BEAT (Aksys Games): BIT.TRIP BEAT brings retro action back as you use the Wii Remote’s Motion Sensor to bounce beats in this rhythm game.
• - World of Goo™ (2D Boy): World of Goo is an award-winning physics-based puzzle/construction game. Grab living, squirming, talking globs of goo to build structures, bridges, cannonballs, zeppelins, and giant tongues.
• - Pokémon Rumble™ (Nintendo): Pokémon Rumble is an action game in which you control Toy Pokémon and battle against waves of enemy Pokémon in order to be the last one standing.

With more than one hundred titles now available, there is something for everyone on WiiWare. There is a wide range of games available from varying genres, concepts and price levels. The complete list of WiiWare titles currently available on the Wii Shop Channel is:
 

For a full list of WiiWare title, developers and Wii Points costs, click on to Page 2