Genre grandaddies could show up on our beloved handhelds.
In an interview with Chris Kohler, id Software's John Carmack and Anna Kang said that they would like to bring Wolfenstein 3D, Quake Arena, Doom, and a few new intellectual properties to the Nintendo DS. Their primary concern is whether an M-rated game would actually sell on the DS.
Wired News: What do you see as being the audience of the DS right now?
John Carmack: There's a thing that's under debate right now, where we've seen statistics saying that half of them are over 16. The Game Boy was always stigmatized as being strictly a kids' platform, and it was uneducated consumers where the games were usually bought by Mommy for little Johnny without looking at reviews or anything like that. So we looked at getting into the original Game Boy market and decided that it just wouldn't be a good place for id Software, because we thought it was driven mostly by branding, either as a Nintendo title or as a heavily licensed title that ties in with a movie or toy or something. And we didn't think we'd have a whole lot of leverage there.
The DS is selling like gangbusters, has trended a little bit older, and with the Internet covering everything on there we think that the quality of a game will make a bigger difference now
Check out the full Wired interview for more on id Software's thoughts on the cell phone and DS platforms.
