New Art Style, WarioWare on DSiWare shop starting December, plus first look at Made in Ore
by JC Fletcher 
{ Oct 31st 2008 at 1:00PM }
Nintendo buried some awesome news in the slides for their financial briefing today. With just one day until the Japanese launch of the DSi, we finally get a brief look at some upcoming downloadable DSiWare software. Nintendo plans to release six Art Style puzzle games on the service, for 500 points each. Of the four games shown in screens, all are brand new. One features a flat surface being folded into cubes, one looks like sort of a flat Rubik's Cube, one features a little guy walking around and specifying where to drop cubes, and one features three columns of colored blocks that the player shifts around.
A brand new WarioWare will be available from the shop at launch for 500 Points. Utsusu! Made in Wario (Take a Picture! Made in Wario, basically) uses the camera to involve your pictures (and your live motions!) in microgames.
In addition to Utsutsu!, minigames from previous WarioWare titles, like Paper Plane, will be available as separate downloads from the DSi Shop for 200 Points each. Also on the way: a Japanese train line map and guide software.
It's not a DSiWare game, but Iwata also showed off a bit of Made in Ore, (at about 44 minutes), which is a full-on WarioWare microgame creation utility! You can draw sprites, create music, and even design the logic of the in-game elements, saving your microgames to virtual Famicom cartridges. There will even be a WiiWare game, Asobu! Made in Ore (Play! Made in Me), that allows you to upload your games to the Wii and play them with friends! Allow us to be absolutely clear: this is the greatest event in human history.
To see the DSiWare stuff, scroll to the "DSiWare" slide (using the second button) and start the video (third button) to look at the footage for yourself, or head to Vooks for a series of screen captures!
[Via NeoGAF]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Josh (be logical; vote for Obama) @ Oct 31st 2008 1:46PM
Sh*t, DSi just earned the status of "must-buy".
KaBob799 @ Oct 31st 2008 2:14PM
When I read that Miyamoto had specifically asked for the sd card I knew we would be seeing great things.
FantomRedux @ Oct 31st 2008 3:11PM
If there was ever a reason to get a DSi in April instead of importing, I can see it being the store. Let's hope they actually make stuff worth having.
They'd better release Made in Ore though (!)
elsng @ Oct 31st 2008 3:57PM
The DSi software is certainly intriguing...
The hardware is another story.
TJF588 @ Nov 1st 2008 6:27AM
So, what would these WarioWare titles be called in the States? The camera-based one should be easier ("WarioWare: Pic It!" oughta work in more ways than one), but this other title... Just how would it be tied to WarioWare specifically? WaWeWare? WaMeWare? I'unno, this'll be hard without a subtitle...
Still hopin' for a second, full-on retail DS WarioWare with, as I've sentimented, Download&Play multiplayer. Maybe even connectivity with the Wii (and its multiplayer?), now that things seem to be gravitating more to interaction. Twisted! and Touched! were a couple, so whatever happens from here oughta be ensemble.