WarioWare titles planned for DSi

By Robert Purchese Published 3 November, 2008

Create and share mini-games.

Nintendo is planning a swathe of WarioWare games for release on the downloadable DS service, DSiWare.

One of these, WarioWare: Photograph, will be designed specially for the DSi, according to a financial performance chat by Satoru Iwata (reported by GameSpot).

The game will make use of the new camera; set the DSi on a table and your silhouette image will be used in various mini-games - there's an example of one where players have to line their fingers up underneath a big, bogey-laden nose. WarioWare: Photograph will be out in Japan this December.

For existing DS owners there will be WarioWare: Myself, a more traditional mini-game affair but with a create and share element. There's even a WiiWare counterpart in the works, which will allow user created games to be played, but will not feature a toolset itself.

On top of this WarioWare madness, Nintendo plans downloadable utilities such as clocks and calendars that will feature famous characters such as ooh maybe Mario. There are some DSiWare ArtStyle puzzlers in the pipeline, too.

There's no mention of cost, mind you; so far we know some DSi titles will be free, while others will cost either 200, 500 or 800 Nintendo points (GBP 1.70 / 4.25 / 6.80).

The DSi, which launched in Japan on 1st November, will not hit European shops until next year. Unfortunately, software for the handheld will also be region-locked, curbing the flow of imports.

Still, 17 per cent bigger screens.

Picture of Robert.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (10) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Golgo #1 3 years ago

    Region locked?! There endeth the whole point of owning a DS...

  • Razz #2 3 years ago

    Cool idea! :D

  • kobashi #3 3 years ago

    software is not region locked. Why are so many sites saying this?

    The DSware software is region specific. If you have a Japanese DSi you will have access to the DSware shop just like we do with the Japanese Wii.

  • penhalion #4 3 years ago

    @Razz

    Do you even realise that you will not be able to play the warioware games if you are in the uk? They are region locked so you have to hope that Nintendo consider it financially viable to release them overhere. The DS has entered the realms of the non-portables in that you now are not going to be able to play any download games that nintendo don't release in your region.

    It looks like the DS lite is the last nintendo handheld that I will be buying until this region lock nonsense is stopped.

    @Kobashi

    What are yu talking about man. How does buying a Japanese Wii allow you to play both UK and Japanese Wiiware games?

    More importantly how does a hardcoded region code in a portable, that is checked by the website, make buying a japanese DSi a viable option. Sure if you want to play Japanese download games, then fine. Otherwise you are still stuffed when you want to play the american or european versions (you know for those who don't speak or read Japanese).
    Edited by 1 at 03/11/08 @ 10:53

  • JohnnyWashnGo #5 3 years ago

    I wonder how long it will be before a group manages to produce a firmware fo the DSi which can switch or do away with the region specificity?

  • fushimi #6 3 years ago

    The actual DS game hardware has not changed -- you can still use DS game cards from anywhere in the world on any DSi.

    The region is *only* for downloadable games.

    To my knowledge downloadable games are region-specific on Xbox Live, PSN and WiiWare/Virtual Console. You buy a console from a region, tell it where you live and you get that store. It's eminently sensible and allows the companies to plan release dates, marketing strategies and server load. I bet half the people complaining about this would never buy that many Japanese games anyway, seeing as most of them can't read the language. It's thornier when you get to the issue of games coming out in the US before the UK, but that's something we've always had to deal with.

  • kobashi #7 3 years ago

    @ penhalion I never said the Japanese Wii allowed you to access the US or European shop. I was just saying that it gives you access to the Japanese shop meaning that you can still download games even if it is japanese version only.


    I have no problem with only having access to the japanese shop. Done it with the Wii for few years now so DSiware is basically the same thing for me.

  • rock27gr #8 3 years ago

    DSi is NOT, I REPEAT, NOT region-locked. It's the DS Ware SHOPS that are region locked.

    Just like Fushimi said. Though the reason is less clean than his explaination; it's all to do with money; buying from the USA shop would cost 50% less if the option was there afterall.

  • peterfll #9 3 years ago

    I had no interest in the DSi until now as I'm rather partial to the WarioWare games.

    Hmm.

  • SharksInYourMouth #10 3 years ago

    Awesome. I'll have to get a DSi now! Though I'm not sure which version to get - why can't they just give us both in one package? =/