i was too optimistic and hopeful.

Nintendo has no problem porting and re-releasing games for DSi.

Club House games is current DS game, Dr. Mario I wonder if it will have same features of Wii Ware game.  I sort of like the idea I don't need to carry around many DS games and saved onto the system, but the real lack of effort is what frustrates me.

What's next a single planet of Meteos to go ? marathon mode from Tetris DS to go ? 

Why not do that Vs. Mario Brothers game from Mario advance next ??

come on now. Make more art-style and more unique games. Not re-release, or ports, or minigames from bigger games.

Just watch all those mini games from mario 64 ds and new super mario brothers will be re-released individually now as DSi downloads. 

Grrr... You lose your Gamer's License.

I think you are jumping the gun too early. The service just launched across the globe, and many third party developers have pledged support to the service.

I think Nintendo is testing the waters to see if both the expanded audience and core gamers are willing to download cheap software on the DSi.

I honestly wouldn't mind this at 200 points.

Nice article Pap.I am pretty interested in DSiware.I don't know when I am going to get a DSi.It will probably be before October because then they won't be giving out 1000 Nintendo points when you get the system.

Adolph has a really good point in the first reply.  We all know that Nintendo has ignored WiiWare with any kind of first-party support.  Now it looks like they are creating the illusion of DSiWare support by repackaging things you can already get for DS.  I'm glad the Art Style series is going to be on both platforms (those are made by Skip), but Nintendo's real involvement seems minimal at best... and they've known about the marketplace for these games longer than any other developer!  Will third parties offer anything innovative and wonderful for DSiWare?  They are slowly figuring out WiiWare after a year or so...

Dr. Mario Online Rx
The art style game series
Maboshi's arcade
My Pokemon Ranch
Jungle Speed
Bonsai Barber
You, me and my shape
Magnetica Twist

I think that's solid support. It might not be 'OMG ZELDA" caliber, but they have proven to be very solid games.

Once again WiiWare is about what new developers and third parties have to offer. If Nintendo kept making games for the service it would be competing with Nintendo's presence and franchises. DSi Ware looks to do the same thing.

I think both you and Vega are jumping the gun on the service on the mere fact that you don't really care for the system and is using this as a bad thing. Forgive my bluntness, but its true.

I don't know what people expect Nintendo to release on WiiWare/DSiWare. All of their big-name titles are retail games, WiiWare is for their more bite-sized offerings, including puzzle games like Dr. Mario and companion titles like My Pokémon Ranch. Plus I don't think they ever expressed intention to give the service an abundance of support from themselves, it was more of a way for smaller-scale developers to release cheap (in price) games.

If a version of the Mario Brothers arcade game with online play made it on the service, that would be pretty sweet.

I wonder if you would be able to play the DSiWare version of Dr. Mario against people playing the WiiWare version.

Still, the number of pieces from previously sold games being sold as new games is worrying me. If they approach DSiWare like WiiWare there'll be a limited number of slots for releases each cycle and stuffing slots with game pieces like this would add to the frustration. Then again none of the Express games have been released in Europe yet, only Pyoro and Paper Plane.

Whatever. I'll buy a DSiWare Dr. Mario in a heartbeat.

This Master of Illusion/Brain Age/Clubhouse Games repackaging crap? Not so much. It wouldn't be so bad if the price was right, but the current Brain Age Express that is out in 800 points, which is almost half of the price of Brain Age when it first came out.

I think recycling content is just a part of Nintendo's business model now.  It sucks obviously but I think that's the reality.  The Wii has the New Play Control series and "are these sequels?" games like Animal Crossing and those Mario sports games.  Plus you could count the VC as well.  And on the GBA they loved re-releasing SNES games and the NES Classic series and then you had stuff like NES games on the e-Reader and you wondered exactly WHO the hell the target audience for it was.  Nintendo has always done this with Pokemon with the traditional third version of each game that comes out a bit later.

But realistically every publisher does this.  Stop supporting it.  Stop buying games you already own.  Don't give them the business model and buy something you already have because you're too lazy to hook your old console up or because you have to have that one new level they added in.  Everyone who already owned Super Mario 64 but bought a DS for Super Mario 64 DS anyway?  Or anyone who owned a Cube but bought a Wii solely for Twilight Princess?  Yeah, YOU give them the business model.

Sigh...This a topic about DSiware games.Not about if Nintendo is recycling content!

My guess would be no. Since the DSiWare version is cheaper, I'm guessing it isn't the same as the WiiWare version.

Welcome to NWR, we've been expecting you.

I think that Nintendo World Report is getting lazy, they keep recycling content. All of their articles use the same old words, like "new" and "game" and "the", and always talk about the same old systems like Wii and DS. Their podcasts recycle the same title as well. I believe that each new article should contain all new words that they have never written before. Who cares if they end up intelligible or not, just so long as it is something I've never seen before. They should even come up with their own words that nobody has ever heard of or could possibly understand.

I've found that the best thing to do is anything Ian doesn't want which is why I support things like the Wiimakes, RE4: Wii Make, and that rehashed dung heap called Virtual Console.

I concur! To make it worse: It has the same people every week, week in week out and they don't e-strangle each other. That is just completely repetition and a failure on NWR to INNOVATE. I propose next episode the podcast crew accost a random person in the street and ask their opinion on said game.

Would that please me? No.
Why? Because i am a nintendoholic and will forever demand MORE, but can never admit it or be happy with what i have.

I have a good title for such a segment: "Nobody's Opinion". Though they will have to retitle the segment every episode or it will become stale.

Same thing.  And I meant that Nintendo has not developed a single WiiWare game.  I know they have published some games (whatever that means for digital distribution) from outside developers.  At least they did Wario Ware Snapped for DSiWare, which gives me hope for future titles.

Maybe not here in North America, but they have internally developed some Japanese WiiWare games like "Asoberu Ehon Tobida Sugoroku" and "Wii Chess" (which was a retail game in Europe but a WiiWare game in Japan).