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Added by Gauss on 2.05.2012 |
| That's why the planned release of 'La-Mulana' was cancelled. |
According to indie publisher Nicalis (Cave Story, NightSky), WiiWare sales are in decline and have reached the stage of being 'almost non-existent'.
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Nicalis is an indie publisher, best known for the ports and remakes of Cave Story on WiiWare, DSiWare and Steam. They also ported the japanese PC retro-platformer La-Mulana and was released on the japanese WiiWare last year.
Well, the company had planned to release this title to NA and Europe, however they've cancelled it as it is "near impossible to sell sufficient units on WiiWare" to guarantee a return. So, it will never be released outside of Japan.
“The WiiWare market has a fraction of the players from 2008,” Nicalis founder Tyrone Rodriguez told GoNintendo.
“The window for release and success of software on the platform ended in 2009 and took a very steep decline. Players have moved onto other digital download platforms.
“La-Mulana was originally developed without DLC in mind and, I think being their first console project, that NIGORO got a bit ahead of themselves and spent two years agonizing on getting the DLC sort of working for Japan. Unfortunately, it never passed Nintendo’s submission process in the US or EU with DLC in place.
“With the Wii U in the not too distant future and WiiWare sales almost non-existent, I had to make a call today.”
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I guess this WiiWare sales decline was expected. So, what do you think?
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