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rein
11-17-2006, 10:16 PM
I found this on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/17/for-your-enjoyment-wiicade/).

The site features flash games that you can play on the Wii through the Opera browser, and also you can also access the site via your PC to upload news games or try your hand at designing your own. They should have 15 flash games up at launch, including two exclusives that feature unique use the Wiimote. Games will auto-fit on all TV screens and are vector based, which should mean no jaggies.

The site will be Wiicade and it launches on November 19th to coincide with the launch of the Wii. You can click here (http://www.wiicade.com/) for the link.

...and some people said web browsers on video game consoles was a bad idea.
score
11-18-2006, 01:57 AM
From Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) :

Artist/designer David Stubbs and two partners are launching an ambitious site on November 19th, to coincide with the arrival of the Wii, called WiiCade.

The site features Flash games that you can play on the Wii through the Opera browser, and also access via your PC to upload new games or try your hand at designing your own. They should have 15 Flash games up at launch, including two exclusives that feature unique use of the Wiimote. Games will auto-fit on all TV screens and are vector based, which should mean no jaggies.
Read More (http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/17/for-your-enjoyment-wiicade/)
Rone
11-18-2006, 05:15 AM
From Gamespot (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6161926.html): The Wii Web Broswer will also trail the system's launch, though it's not clear by how much. Nintendo said only that more information about the browser's availability "will be released in the coming weeks." Kinda hard to run browser games without a browser. Oops.
Heretic Machine
11-18-2006, 05:20 AM
What makes these games well suited to the Wii rather than a normal browser?
Headcase
11-18-2006, 05:34 AM
What makes these games well suited to the Wii rather than a normal browser?

Presumably, the games make more sense when you point with a remote rather than with a mouse. Like a gun game that would be easy with a mouse (point and click) but more challenging (or natural, anyway) with the wii-mote's aiming mechanic.
wangstramedeous
11-18-2006, 07:57 AM
But how is the average Joe going to find out about this website unless Nintendo promo's it somehow?
Sophism
11-18-2006, 08:17 AM
Is the average Joe supposed to find out about the website?
rein
11-18-2006, 08:35 AM
What makes these games well suited to the Wii rather than a normal browser?

The games may work fine in a normal browser. The point is, someone is making them and optimizing them for the Wii. It is a damn cool idea and a good use for the browser right out at the start.
J Arcane
11-18-2006, 09:18 AM
Leave it to the company behind the DS to be the first to bring crappy Flash games to the home console.
Rirath
11-18-2006, 11:03 AM
The games may work fine in a normal browser. The point is, someone is making them and optimizing them for the Wii. It is a damn cool idea and a good use for the browser right out at the start.

So basically it's the PSP all over again. The PSP didn't have flash, but there were a ton of javascript games and apps released for the web browser before homebrew.

At least in this case it may be mildly amusing if someone makes it specifically for the console.
rein
11-18-2006, 11:28 AM
So basically it's the PSP all over again. The PSP didn't have flash, but there were a ton of javascript games and apps released for the web browser before homebrew.

At least in this case it may be mildly amusing if someone makes it specifically for the console.

I am sure it will be similar but a little more robust. I did not want to point to the PSP similarity because of the difference in the controller, bigger viewing area, and lack of portability for the Wii. Two different beast.

I wonder how robust flash support for the Wii will be. It will be a bit funny if you can play Flow (http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/core.html) on the Wii using a mouse like controller for free.
Sl1pstream
11-18-2006, 06:19 PM
Leave it to the company behind the DS to be the first to bring crappy Flash games to the home console.

Did you even read this one? Nintendo aren't the ones doing this, this is user created and free, unlike Sony, who seems to love charging people for flash games (fl0w).
Ultima Thulian
11-18-2006, 06:23 PM
Did you even read this one? Nintendo aren't the ones doing this, this is user created and free, unlike Sony, who seems to love charging people for flash games (fl0w).

I think he was too busy trolling to notice.
J Arcane
11-18-2006, 07:22 PM
Did you even read this one? Nintendo aren't the ones doing this, this is user created and free, unlike Sony, who seems to love charging people for flash games (fl0w).
Woo. Newgrounds for the TV. I'm all aflutter.

And what the fuck does Sony have to do with it? Is that some pathetic attempt to cast me a Sony fan or something?
TrackZero
11-19-2006, 02:41 AM
Yeah, great idea.... Only it'd have been better for said games to just natively been released on the Wii download service, rather than having to waste cycles on a web browser to interpret them.
Sl1pstream
11-19-2006, 05:08 AM
Woo. Newgrounds for the TV. I'm all aflutter.

And what the fuck does Sony have to do with it? Is that some pathetic attempt to cast me a Sony fan or something?

I could ask you the same question: What does the DS have to do with it?

These are free, user-created flash games. How is this a bad thing?
Heretic Machine
11-20-2006, 01:03 AM
Guys, Microsoft charges for flash games on XBLA arcade too... AstroPop comes ot mind. It is quite a bit more fun on the 360 than it is on my PC though, and I have no doubt that flOw will be the same way.