Topic: NIS officially planning on Wii and Wiiware games

[Flames_of_chaos]

http://wii.ign.com/articles/927/927938p1.html

November 7, 2008 - NIS's Japanese parent company Nippon Ichi has confirmed plans for Wii and WiiWare support.

The company posted a notice to its website yesterday announcing that it finalized a contract with Nintendo on November 4 covering the development and sale of Wii and WiiWare games in the Japanese market.

Specifics were not shared, but the notice did promise an announcement once plans have been finalized.

Previously, Nippon Ichi CEO Koichi Kitazumi has expressed interest in working with the Wii. "By signing on [with Wii], we hope to attract new audiences," Kitazumi told the Kabushiki Shimbun newspaper in July.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Refresh me, what do they traditionally make?

[Flames_of_chaos]

Strategy RPGs and RPGs Disgaea is their main series.  They released Disgaea DS which is the 3rd version of the 1st Disgaea game and Rhapsody: A musical adventure which is a remake of a PSone RPG on the DS.

So they are similar to what Atlus makes usually, hell in the US Atlus is usually their sole distributor for games.
Here is their games released that IGN tracked note: Rhapsody should be on the DS list but IGN grouped it with Atlus because Atlus published the US PSone version. In the US Atlus just distributed Rhapsody.

Nintendo DS
A Witch's Tale
Disgaea DS
Jigsaw World: Daigekitou! Jig-Battle Heroes
The Conveni DS Otona no Keieiryoku Training

PlayStation
Cooking Fighter
Satellitv

PlayStation 2
Amagoushi no Yakata
Ar Tonelico 2: Melody of MetaFalica
Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia
Atelier Iris 2 ~The Azoth of Destiny~
Atelier Iris 3 ~Grand Phantasm~
Atelier Iris ~Eternal Mana~
Castle of Naraku
Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories
Eternal Aselia: At the End of this Earth
GrimGrimoire
Hayarigami
Hayarigami Revenge: Keishichou Kaii Jiken
Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome
Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis
Phantom Brave
Rasetsu Alternative
Soul Nomad & The World Eaters

PlayStation 3
Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice
Makai Wars

PlayStation Portable
Aedis Eclipse ~Generation of Chaos~
Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light
Disgaea Portable (Limited Edition)
Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness
Dragoneer's Aria
Generation of Chaos
Hayarigami Portable: Keishichou Kaii Jiken
Infinite Loop: Kojjou ga Miseta Yume
Makai Wars

[Bill Aurion]

It feels like they've been in the planning stages forever...

[Flames_of_chaos]

Well you can't really blame them for that since they are a very small company their last major releases were Disgaea 3 on PS3, Rhaposdy and Disgaea DS. So they do have very limited resources especially if you consider their next major game is Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? for the PSP which comes out February 2009 in the US.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

yeah, working on a whole lot of... nothing?  their ps2 list is massive.  what's going on with this gen.

[Bill Aurion]

yeah, working on a whole lot of... nothing?  their ps2 list is massive.  what's going on with this gen.

Every developer's PS2 list is massive...Apparently it's the in-thing to work on fewer, more expensive projects with smaller userbases!

[Flames_of_chaos]

You guys should read some of the reviews for Disgaea 3 they all knock it because Disgaea 3 has PS2 level graphics. But yet it has a lot more depth.

My guess is that developers weren't and to an extent still aren't prepared of the PS3/360 leap financially and resource wise.

[KDR_11k]

How exactly do you get PS3 graphics in an isometric, sprite-based game? Or even PS2 graphics, for that matter? I think that was just people who spent so much money on their system whining that it really doesn't make everything 10x better than their old system.

[Flames_of_chaos]

How exactly do you get PS3 graphics in an isometric, sprite-based game? Or even PS2 graphics, for that matter? I think that was just people who spent so much money on their system whining that it really doesn't make everything 10x better than their old system.

Design choice? I'm guessing its a case of buyers remorse of seeing how your 400 - 600 dollar purchase turned out to be a marginal upgrade.

[KDR_11k]

I mean, Disgaea was going to be a sprite based isometric game either way (they could have done more than that on the PS2 had they really wanted it), what would have to happen for that to be "PS3 graphics"?

[MaleficentOgre]

Hi res graphics. Odin Sphere looks better on ps2 than Disgaea 3 does. Its a truly ugly game. and if you play it on an SDTV then you're really going to hate life.

[Flames_of_chaos]

Well Odin Sphere is Vanilla Ware/Atlus, but I suppose the NIS equivalent is GrimGrimoire since its Vanilla Ware/NIS.

Also about a month ago NIS did announce a WiiWare game called Let's Hitchhike and on that same day Gust and Game Arts announced Wii support.