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http://dailynintendo.com/rpg-maker-bioware-eyes-the-wii
BioWare is thinking of making a Wii game.
Apparently, it’s not just Bethesda Softworks who’s jumping into the Wii bandwagon. Canadian RPG maker BioWare, best known for classics like Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, and Knights of the Old Republic, is eyeing the Nintendo console.
It’s not the RPG developer’s first foray into a Nintendo platform however. BioWare’s Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood was released for the DS late last year.
So what does BioWare have in mind for the Wii, hmm? BioWare’s Ray Muzka told Industry Gamers:
We’d be intrigued by the idea of developing on Wii but we have nothing to announce right now. We do have some unannounced projects that we’re not ready to talk about yet, and they are different from some things we’ve done in the past… Our goal, really long-term, is to broaden our base and continue to differentiate and have diversity of choice on different platforms, because we know there are different audiences on platforms like mobile and Wii, and different geographic markets and distribution and business models. It’s exciting, but you can’t do all things at one time.
So BioWare is eyeing the Wii because they want to widen their audience. It looks like they managed to do just that with Sonic Chronicles, which received fairly decent reviews and approximately sold over 600,000 units. But what kind of games does BioWare plan to develop for the Wii?
If we did a Wii game I think we’d approach it with the target audience in mind first and the vision of delivering an emotionally powerful narrative and go back to our basics in terms of some of the pillars of gameplay we’d like to bring to bear – exploration, progression, customization, conflict, story, narrative, and characters. How do we adapt that to the platform? That’s how we’d approach it.
Of course, all this talk still doesn’t confirm a BioWare game for the Wii. Who knows? Maybe they’re already making one as we speak.
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