Dear Reader:
IGN NVC podcast tidbits - publishers closely watching sales of core third party games, SD card storage fix coming, more buzz for Retro title, more dark games coming to Wii, hints at major I.P.s, reconfirmation of ExciteTruck dev working on a new Wii title
I just listened to the questions portion of the IGN Nintendo Voice Chat Podcast, and these are the exciting bits that I pulled.
- No word on any publisher interest for Winter since petition
- Conduit sales are very important to not just SEGA, but other publishers in general
- other companies are looking to sales of de Blob and Deadly Creatures to see how they will approach the Wii in the future
- Nintendo should be announcing their SD card fix will come towards the end of March. Will arrive via a download, and is due to fix storage space issues.
- Gas Powered Games ‘God Game’ is MIA…no idea where the project stands right now
- U.S. release date should be coming for Fatal Frame IV (opinion)
- Retro has filled their art and game director positions from within, and a former Midway employee has become their Technical Director
- Retro’s new project ‘is going to be rad, epic, and cool’ according to Matt
- still nothing official for a new Golden Sun, but the team behind the series still wants to make a new entry
- Retro has handled the Prime 1 and 2 ‘New Play Control’ titles
- people being pulled off PS3 projects to work on Wii, but it’s not the Wii titles core gamers want
- more dark games coming to Wii, possibly announced as early as April
- major I.P.s coming from publishers, check out Matt’s top 10 games list for some hints
- still no word from Factor 5
- Conduit’s biggest hurdle to overcome is their artists…the tech is better than their artists
- Developer of ExciteTruck (Monster Games) is working on another game, (SPECULATION) may be be another ExciteTruck, WaveRace, ExciteBike, or some type of racing game