{"id":348,"date":"2007-06-27T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=348"},"modified":"2007-06-27T16:07:27","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:07:27","slug":"the-fence-is-down-wiiware-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/06\/27\/the-fence-is-down-wiiware-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fence is Down: WiiWare Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like a big one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/cgi-bin\/stories.pl?ACCT=104&amp;STORY=\/www\/story\/06-27-2007\/0004616288&amp;EDATE=\">Nintendo has announced WiiWare<\/a>, online distribution of new Wii games for developers.<\/p>\n<p>OK, but <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.newsweek.com\/blogs\/levelup\/archive\/2007\/06\/26\/level-up-exclusive-on-nintendo-wiiware.aspx\">the real news is this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Fils-Aime told us that while Nintendo, as the retailer, would itself determine the appropriate pricing for each game on a per-title bases, <strong>the games themselves would not be vetted by Nintendo<\/strong>. Instead, Nintendo would only check the games for bugs and compatibility, with developers and publishers responsible for securing an E for Everyone, E10+ for Everyone 10 or older, T for Teen or M for Mature rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s wait for the exact details to come in, but so far it looks like we may be seeing the first hole in the fence around the current consoles: <em>The possibility that anyone can publish a console game without platform owner approval<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Was it inevitable? I am sure CD- and DVD-player manufacturers know that the variety of content is a boon to business, not a threat, and now a console manufacturer is coming around.<\/p>\n<p>How will the submissions process work? How will they distribute dev kits?<\/p>\n<p>What will happen with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=334\">XNA now<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like a big one: Nintendo has announced WiiWare, online distribution of new Wii games for developers. OK, but the real news is this: Fils-Aime told us that while Nintendo, as the retailer, would itself determine the appropriate pricing for each game on a per-title bases, the games themselves would not be vetted by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/06\/27\/the-fence-is-down-wiiware-announced\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Fence is Down: WiiWare Announced&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}