Wii Ware

Wii Ware launched in Japan yesterday. It is a service similar to XBOX Live Arcade (XBLA) and the Playstation Network (PSN) where users can download new and original games for their systems. This is great news for Wii owners who have been waiting for something to rival XBLA for quite some time. Maybe now we can start getting remakes of Street Fighter II and Bionic Commando, instead of just getting the original games on the Virtual Console. Capcom is one company that has recently been spending a lot of their money to remake their older games for these types of services, and I'm all for it. Graphical updates to classic games are always welcome, I just hope now that they will start to come to the Wii. There are many games that have been announced such as Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as King (a kind of town building simulation RPG of sorts), Lost Winds (a platformer where you control the wind) and Star Soldier R (a classic side scrolling shoot em up).

Wii Ware launches in May for North America. As much as I love the virtual console, I really can't wait for downloadble, original, games that are up to the Wii's graphical standards. The capcom remakes can easily be done on the Wii, lets hope they bring them over. Below is a trailer for Bionic Commando Rearmed, the remake of the original game by Capcom that is coming to XBLA and PSN. You can see why I'd want this on Wii, it looks so awesome.

Labels: Nintendo