Conspiracy to publish Wii budget titles in the U.S.

by John Bardinelli on Jun 28th 2007 2:00PM

Data Design Interactive and U.S. Developer Conspiracy have announced a distribution agreement that will bring nine new Wii-exclusive titles to the U.S. this year. Most of the games seem to be knock-offs of more popular titles such as Mario Kart or the Harry Potter series, but this Ninjabread Man game has our attention. No release date or prices have been set, but the games have been marketed at budget prices in the UK, so we can likely expect the same in the States.

Mini Desktop Racing - A "minature racer"
Monster Trux Offroad - a "rugged racer"
Ninjabread Man - 3D platformer
Action Girlz Racing - "fairy-tale racer"
Anubis II - 3D platformer
Billy Wizard - a "magic/action game" banking on the popularity of Harry Potter
Myth Makers - SuperKart GP - a racing game, of course
Rock N Roll Adventures - musical action/platformer
Earache - Extreme Metal Racing - yet another offroad racer

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Tags: budget, conspiracy, datadesign, port, ps2, wii

Reader Comments (52)

*01: "I had always kindda hoped that the $$ devs saved on graphics for the wii could be put towards more quality games."

How often does that happen? If the *fans* of a system are praising low dev costs, what kind of developers are going to flock to the platform?

Dev costs are not totally related to that hardware. It has to do with the scope of the project. Unless you're a struggling indie developer, cheap budgets means cheap games -- because the authors just don't give a damn.

These are clearly casual, budget, kids games. I think the thing to remember is: Don't like 'em, don't buy 'em!! Seriously, the decision is yours!!

As for them 'destroying' the Wii... as Zsavior posted: the PS2 is awash with shovelware, and did you see Sony suffering because of it? No, they were too busy endlessly stuffing their pockets with cash that they made from the PS1 & PS2.

@Mr Khan - From what I understand Data Design actually has only 2 full time programmers so to be fair, developing this many titles for so many platforms is quite an achievement!!

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