People, the revolution is here: WiiWare demos are back.

Why? Hey, maybe a prominent WiiWare developers knows!

“In a bold yet puzzling move,” said Bit.Trip developers Gaijin Games on its website. “Nintendo brought back all the WiiWare demos in the Wii Shop Channel!”

There are all sorts of reasons to question Nintendo’s logic when it comes to online, but for whatever reason, the company’s approach to game demos bothered me than anything else.

When Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced that demos were coming to WiiWare, it came with the puzzling caveat that the demos would not be available indefinitely. Eventually, the demos did actually disappear, so if you missed the demos when they were available, there was no way to try out the games without paying.

The suite of 50 demos that went through the service are now available, but it’s unclear if they’ll be there forever.

People, the revolution is here: WiiWare demos are back.

Why? Hey, maybe a prominent WiiWare developers knows!

“In a bold yet puzzling move,” said Bit.Trip developers Gaijin Games on its website. “Nintendo brought back all the WiiWare demos in the Wii Shop Channel!”

There are all sorts of reasons to question Nintendo’s logic when it comes to online, but for whatever reason, the company’s approach to game demos bothered me than anything else.

When Nintendo president Satoru Iwata announced that demos were coming to WiiWare, it came with the puzzling caveat that the demos would not be available indefinitely. Eventually, the demos did actually disappear, so if you missed the demos when they were available, there was no way to try out the games without paying.

The suite of 50 demos that went through the service are now available, but it’s unclear if they’ll be there forever.

Typo man!

I was totally clamoring for this.

TYPO ALERT weewoo weewoo

So demos are the McRib of WiiWare?

This is what I've been waiting for. Time to take out my Wii and play some demos! Come to think of it I think I have like 200 Wii points on my system that I'll probably never use.

OH FUCK YES DEMOS!

All my prayers have come true!

One of the main things I've always liked about XBL is that they have trials for ALL of the XBLA games. Seems like a small thing really, but it's probably the thing I appreciate the most about the service.

BRING BACK THE TRAIN!

That's Nintendo for you. Totally unexpected. That's how their magic works and shit.

Demos!

Yay, Internet! Me know how use it!

Demossssssss!

@SMGB25 said:

Typo man!

I dont liket hat guy>

I'm just going to leave this here.....

@Grimluck343 said:

BRING BACK THE TRAIN!

@DrJota said:

I'm just going to leave this here.....

MAKE IT HAPPEN, JEFF!

Totally expected this to be written by Jeff.

Bring back the WiiWare/DSiWare section on the Bombcast, and we'll talk.

Innovative!

From the people that brought you the Wii Speak!

There were not "plenty" of great games on WiiWare. There were like two or three, and even then they were better experienced elsewhere. Like World of Goo or Cave Story.

@notdavid said:

So demos are the McRib of WiiWare?

Yeah. They have not quite reached Chili Cheese Burrito status yet, though.

Hopefully this, like the credit card information save on 3DS, is a sign that Nintendo had a discussion about fixing the direction of their downloadable approach.

I wish the titles were listed here.

I just bought a 3DS today and their "pay exact price" option is fucking awesome. Otherwise it'd have been £10 for one £5.40 game or £20 for two (£10.80) and from then on I'd always have a useless sum of points on the 3DS.

Nintendo still might not get the internet in ways other companies have, but they do make a few smart decisions.

The Wiiware demos disappeared? Actually back one step. Wiiware has demos?!

Someone probably just flicked the switch by accident at Nintendo's HQ.

About time. My girlfriends little brothers got a Wii for christmas and i spent alot of time trying to find the demos i promised them would be there..

This just makes me miss the NDX.

Are wiiware demos still not re-downloadable? That is, if your device is stolen or lost or broken, you are fucked with regard to all of your purchases? Or has that changed? (Not that I have any clue where in the house my Wii is... I think it's still in a box in the garage from when I bought my house and moved in two years ago).

That is pretty much what has kept me from ever buying anything on it. Especially since I've already gone through having every single one of my consoles stolen in a home invasion before.

I've decided not to buy anything on Nintendo console or handheld after someone stole my 3DS. I still have all of my physical 3DS games but lost every digital game I had purchased by then >_< Thanks to Nintendo and their lacking online features...

Fucking Nintendo.

Choo Choo Motherfucker?

Nintendo continuing to operate business behind the curve.

This situation makes absolutely no sense to me.