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A little friendly trash-talk is to be expected between game developers and their various digital distribution platforms, but one anonymous WiiWare developer seems fiercely devoted to the potential of Nintendo's platform, calling Xbox Live Arcade's lineup "full of ****."

The comment comes from a discussion of Nintendo's aggressive strategy for bringing developers to the WiiWare platform. According to Develop Magazine, Nintendo is taking advantage of frustrations with Microsoft's service to entice developers over to WiiWare. According to the anonymous developer, the sheer glut of retro titles on XBLA makes it difficult for new properties to stand out (a grievance similarly aired by Jeff Minter following poor sales of his retro-styled title Space Giraffe).

Of course, any digital distribution platform is bound to eventually find itself congested with titles, a problem the brick-and-mortar retail chains have dealt with for years. Only after some time will we be able to see if WiiWare handles this title saturation any differently than XBLA.

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if this guy doesnt want to compete with retro titles jeez he better watch out for the VC channel which in my estimation will also compete for wii points with wii ware titles

Lol o please.

XBLA > Wiiware.

Why? because it aint out. see how much sales you get, since half the children/people that have wii dont know what Wii ware is yet.

I think Nintendo is going to hit a wall with Wii Ware unless they allow for external hard drive support via usb. Otherwise your 2gb SD cards are gonna be filling up pretty quick.

This comment was uncalled for. But it can't be taken back now.

Honestly I have no real interest in either XBLA OR WiiWare. So I don't care how well each sell.

Sounds like someone is pissed off about not being able to develop on XBL that he's looking to blame them for his shortcomings. I'm not sure if WiiWare is gonna be a hit or not but some of the game sound interesting such as the Final Fantasy one. We can't get the refill cards for it here so I don't care regardless.