Goddammit! What Shaka said.

Awesome, but summer 2011 seems really far off :-(

Sounds good. There's more money to be made on XBLA, and of course, it'll be in HD.

STOP CELEBRATING, EVERYONE! Once again, we have YET ANOTHER XBLA TIMED EXCLUSIVE. YET ANOTHER TITLE NOT COMING TO PS3, and even worse NOT COMING TO STEAM!

Nice. Wasn't planning on buying the WiiWare version... just might pick up the XBLA version now.

@TheLupineOne

Not necessarily, look at the picture. The game's copyright belongs to the dev, not Microsoft.

Brian could still pretty much sell the game where ever he wants. I just hope Sony doesn't turn their nose up at it like SMB.

@Fuzzet15: I'm tempted to say that it's probably another Super Meat Boy. I wouldn't be too surprised if Microsoft's contract has a "no PSN version" clause. They are known to do that sort of thing, after all.

@Delusibeta If such a thing is true
1) FANBOY RAAAAAAGE!
2) STEAM VERSION PLEASE!

Ahh, terrific news! This looks like it'll be a fun one.

@TheLupineOne

I'd sign that :D I don't know what it would come to, but it's worth a shot.

@Delusibeta

That could very well be, I just feel the need to be optimistic for now. It sounds like the game's dev really needs money, and that's why he's going multi-platform, so it'd be in his best interest to get it on both systems. Microsoft/Sony's best interests on the other hand...

You guys are surprised he wanted to ditch an on life support WiiWare system for guaranteed money from the multi-billion dollar XBLA service? He's trying to feed himself - this is his job.

@Jayson619

"As if the COD and Halo boyos on the 360 would even care about this being released on XBL."

DAZZLER

I wonder do MS watch reactions to downloadable games pre-release then try to poach the popular ones with a big offer for a timed exclusive?

This is becoming a disturbing trend, where games get announced for WiiWare first, then they get ported to XBLA and actually come out first there. The first big case of this was Super Meat Boy, which is still not out for WiiWare yet, do to trying to get it down to the right file size. So maybe Nintendo should start locking up some of these high profile WiiWare games into exclusive contracts, so this trend doesn't continue for them.

If you want your game to sell, or even be noticed, you don't put it on WiiWare.

XBLA and PSN have much better setups to show people what's new, what's popular and what the games are all about. Wii just has a convoluted shopping interface running at dial-up speeds with Mario instead of a proper loading bar.

To clarify: XBLA + WiiWare sales obviously are more than Wii sales alone, hence why every indie should go multiplatform (and add PSN too) whenever possible (notice this guy also did that, rather than restrict himself to any single platform, even if that platform could have been the almighty XBLA fanboys - Magnalon - and clueless article authors - guess - praise so much) but that doesn't also imply XBLA sales alone are so much more than WiiWare sales alone (although with the game being out on 360 so much earlier, that could be the case as true enthusiasts are multiplatform owners, but the reason for that would simply be the timing and nothing else). And before any other clueless fanboy says "Wii gamers don't buy games", keep in mind that as of last October it sat at a comfortable lifetime 8:1 attach ratio by retail titles alone and that from statistics we know that Wii has some of the highest percentage of online enabled users despite the overall lack of multiplayer titles, as Nintendo has done a great job in advertising connectivity and adding features such as the BBC player, Netflix, and others. In short, get your facts straight. Even outside official statistics, there are independent surveys (check GamaSutra for a recent one) showing Wii is used as much as any other system, if not more, even if it lacks in actual online multiplayer, as it makes up for it by other uses, both on and offline. Even primarily online services like Netfli are used more on Wii.

I wish I wish that Wiiware was taken more seriously . Not by this guy, what he is saying is the truth. Especially for a self funded game. I just feel Wiiware could have been the avenue for a "golden age" of simply designed games. Games that never were but feel like they came from the NES era. I mean wouldn't a Nintendo console be the right place for something like that to happen?

Why do you guys get so butt hurt when a game comes out on more than one system? Solution: buy it for whatever system you WANT to.

Looking forward to XBLA version :D

@Nothankyou

Magnalon is a fanboy? Now I've read it all.

Also, lol @ people for shitting on Nintendo for NOT having timed exclusivity requirements for games submitted to them like Microsoft often does. Yes, that's oh-so-very bad for the developers. Idiots.

He pulled a Meat Boy!

Now that its coming out on XBLA i'll probally get for that. considering that my wiis hacked so i can't use the shop channel anyway.

I suppose that only thing that irks me is that the Wii version has to suffer in order for the "superior" SKU to come out first. I don't care if developers go multiplatform, but at least have the decency to not string along Wii owners.

@Humtuk

Why should someone be happy for him if they do not own a Wii or a 360, and they want to give him money? Yet cannot because he chose to put it on a system where downloadable games don't sell (WiiWare). This should be coming out on PSN/Steam as well.

And of course Microsoft paid him to put it on the 360 first, the game is being announced for their Summer Arcade thing. They did the same thing with Lara Croft Tomb Raider GoL.