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Is Machinarium Cancelled for WiiWare?
on 01.11.2011 at 14:58
Posted by Ross Marrs (Marzy) 
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Machinarium, Cancelled, WiiWare, Aminita Design, XGen Studios, Eurogamer, Interview, Samorost 3, Wii U
Posted by Ross Marrs (Marzy) Comments: 7 Reads: 2066 Tags:
Machinarium, Cancelled, WiiWare, Aminita Design, XGen Studios, Eurogamer, Interview, Samorost 3, Wii U Related Stories
A while back, XGen Studios announced point and click adventure Machinarium would be coming to WiiWare. Since then, it all went a bit quiet and it certainly seemed as if the game had been scrapped.
Sadly, it's now most likely true, with Aminita Design's Jakub Dvorský discussing his dislikes about the Wii. This was recently revealed in an interview with Eurogamer, where the company talked about bringing their latest project (Samorost 3) to as many platforms as possible, as long as they were powerful enough. It was then Dvorský stated that he didn't like Wii or WiiWare due to it's limitations.
He explained:
We don't like Wii because the resolution is so low and there is a size limit on WiiWare of 40MB, which is so low for nowadays, It's crazy.
However, Aminita Design are looking into Wii U development and have claimed it looks promising. It's suggested that Samorost 3 may come to the platform, so perhaps Machinarium will still make an appearance on a Nintendo platform.
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L66 Sonic
Was anything still waiting for this?
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L8 Lakitu
Noooooo! I understand and I have it on PC but still... NOOOOO! The Wii is having issues already, give it a little love before it sails away from the 3rd parties entirely, please!
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The Wii is 5 years old and the online system was never 'fully operational'. A game released this late isn't going to do anything.
Now in the same interview they mention they want to bring it to Wii U. That's clever.
Now in the same interview they mention they want to bring it to Wii U. That's clever.
Xenobladed
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L77 K.K. Slider
Its a flash game, yet they port to the iPad but not Wii.
Thats just stupid when you really think about it.
Ironicly, the Wii could play this as a web based game just fine, as it has a decent browser.
The 360 couldnt do that.
Thats just stupid when you really think about it.
The Wii is 5 years old and the online system was never 'fully operational'.
Ironicly, the Wii could play this as a web based game just fine, as it has a decent browser.
The 360 couldnt do that.
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A comment on the subject from someone at XGen Studios, posted on Nintendo-Life :
Source here
( Edited 01.11.2011 23:56 by Kafei2006 )
XGen here �" just wanted to apologize to everyone we've disappointed and to shed some light on this. We've had a version of Machinarium running on the Wii (using some custom Flash-based technology to help get it there) for over a year now. By making a lot of sacrifices on the amazing soundtrack, and fantastic graphics, we were finally able to squeeze the game into the necessary distribution footprint (from over 300 MB on other platforms).
Since then, we (and the brilliant guys at Amanita) had been doing a lot of work to try to improve the quality and experience on the Wii. But in the end we collectively made the tough decision that, even after all this, the quality just couldn't do the game justice when compared to other platforms.
So again I apologize that we couldn't make this happen, but we really encourage everyone to check out this fantastic game on another platform. Cheers everyone!
Since then, we (and the brilliant guys at Amanita) had been doing a lot of work to try to improve the quality and experience on the Wii. But in the end we collectively made the tough decision that, even after all this, the quality just couldn't do the game justice when compared to other platforms.
So again I apologize that we couldn't make this happen, but we really encourage everyone to check out this fantastic game on another platform. Cheers everyone!
Source here
( Edited 01.11.2011 23:56 by Kafei2006 )
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I respect their decision, they were right to drop it from WiiWare.
I'd urge people to buy it on another platform myself, because it really is such an amazing experience.
I'd urge people to buy it on another platform myself, because it really is such an amazing experience.
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I already have the PC version (collectors edition) so I'am not sad at all, was not planning on buying it anyway, No loss.
on 03.11.2011 at 12:32
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