More WiiWare games may get retail release

That sucks for you. Meanwhile I'm going to play World of Goo....

Well, the devs loss of my money. There's no reason to not provide demos when your content is digitally available like this.

And I have world of goo, on pc. The PC version has a demo, too.

I agree it's absurd that demos aren't available. Nintendo likes to stay one generation behind on these things.

I don't know if it's worth boycotting the service over, since there are some solid games and fledgeling developers that deserve attention, but I feel your pain otherwise.

I agree, how about timed downloads that only permit 30 minutes to an hour of playtime?

I don't think it's fair boycotting the third party devs who make WiiWare because Nintendo don't provide demos.
Maybe don't buy a new Zelda game and say "this was from that money wasted on bad WiiWare." What am I saying, getting a Nintendo fanboy to boycott Zelda is like a grossly obese person saying they'll lose 200 pounds as their New Year's resolution.

I'm not "boycotting" them. I'm simply not convinced I want to spend $10-$20 on a game with nothing but the title of the game and a small description, especially with absolutely no chance of a return. And no, I'm not going to make those blind purchases and not buy a zelda game that I know is going to be good, why on earth would I do that?

Yeah, but you know if they really did do that (LW retail game) it totally *would* be the little bits combined into one with some bonus content.

Personally, I'd like to see what happens in WiiWare stay in WiiWare. I really liked Groovin' Blocks and would have bought a WiiWare sequel for sure, but didn't buy the retail version. It's just not a retail kind of game.

I think WiiWare should definitely be useful as a 'training' kind of thing for developers who haven't worked on Wii before - if you can make a fantastic game on WiiWare then you're better set up for making full games. For example, Frontier obviously have great Wii experience with Lost Winds, now maybe they should make a full Wii game. :) Or just more WiiWare - that would be good too.

But I don't really think the actual WiiWare games themselves are generally suitable for retail. (With the exception of e.g. Telltale's episodic games, which are fine packaged together in retail.) 'Lit' was good for instance, but retail? Nope, game's done, good job, that was enough.

The 360 is a dumping site for PS3 ports with more content.