"One parting announcement," n-Space said on their Facebook. "At E3 this year, Activision and Nintendo announced GoldenEye as a Wii exclusive. Not quite. We're happy to confirm that a DS version is in the works at n-Space. More on this next week!"
n-Space has previously worked on other first-person shooters, including the Call of Duty DS games and Geist for GameCube. They were at E3 representing their Tron games for Wii and DS.
Thanks to UncleBob for the tip!
All this Goldeneye stuff seems a little much. The Wii version sounds competent but perhaps more so than with any videogame Goldeneye is just a name. The original game was never big because of James Bond or because it was based on the Goldeneye movie. It was more or less the first Perfect Dark game, it just had the James Bond licence. That's it. It's just the first in a series of games Rare made for the N64 that sadly dipped in quality after Rare was bought by Microsoft.
It was never about James Bond. EA didn't realize that and I question if Activision does.
Perhaps the DS version is a port of the original game?
delay it until 3ds
They have been allowed to work on Nintendo's handhelds in the past. A DS port of the original game would seem to solve a lot of the licensing issues, in that it's something I could see both Nintendo and Microsoft agreeing to, but that and the fact that it would be guaranteed to make a ****-ton of money for everyone involved make me think that if it were going to happen, it would have happened already.
I think it is kind of weird how there is a DS version of this game. I can't imagine it will control well. Have other shooters on DS sold well?