We may earn a commission from links on this page. Nintendo’s first tentative steps into the world of original downloadable games came in 2008 with the launch of WiiWare, for the original Wii.

In February of 2006, former Nintendo of America marketing vice president Perrin Kaplan laid out Nintendo's forthcoming console generation with a strategy the company had dubbed "blue ocean.

Nintendo has announced that original downloadable games are heading to Wii thanks to the WiiWare Channel with the aim being to let developers both large and small distribute their titles on the ...

What about Miis? Tom Prata: Developers have the ability to utilize the same Wii features for WiiWare games as they do for disc-based games, including Wi-Fi Connection, WiiConnect24 and variety of ...

Nintendo appears to have confirmed that ageing GameCube games will be made available for download on the Wii U. Gamers will get the last-gen games via the company's existing WiiWare service ...

Here’s how it works. With LostWinds, Frontier Developments have single-handedly ensured a successful launch for WiiWare, and made one of the best Wii games of the year to boot. It's a ...

a fairly short time to build buzz around your game, whether in stores or online. There's also no real showcase for WiiWare online, other than here and the Wii's Nintendo Channel. The official ...

The terribly restrictive, tiny amount of on-board storage space inside each Wii machine made downloading WiiWare games a chore. You always had to "clean out the fridge" before attempting any ...

WiiWare, the company’s first venture into ... is a separate store (but one from which you can download full retail Wii games (which you can’t on the actual Wii Shop Channel (remember when ...

Nintendo's Wii U has launched ... landmark racer that served as a US launch title for the original NES, the game's WiiWare update got a new 3D gloss courtesy of Monster Games (brains behind ...

The Wii's digital storefront Wiiware had some great games like World of Goo, the Lost Winds series, and just this summer we saw the fiendishly difficult exploratory platformer La-Mulana make an ...