Become a Nintendo Ambassador

Yesterday, Nintendo held it's Media Summit in London. One of the larger newsitems at the summit aside from Nintendo's plans for WiiWare and DSiWare was the announcement of their Ambassador programme.

Nintendo of Europe is yesterday held a summit for media and developers in the heart of London, at which it will exclusively reveal a whole host of new games scheduled for launch on WiiWare and Nintendo DSiWare in the coming months. And who better to show off the games than the creators themselves!

Highlights of the day included a world-first hands-on experience of LostWinds: Winter of the Melodias developed by Frontier, creators of the original LostWinds for WiiWare in 2008. David Braben from Frontier will be speaking exclusively to media on this new sequel and explaining why he believes the game couldn't have happened without WiiWare.

Other major names from the gaming world were attending to speak about their enthusiasm for WiiWare and Nintendo DSiWare as great platforms to create unique games. Dave Grossman of Telltale Games, who wrote and programmed the first two games in the legendary Monkey Island series at LucasArts, will be discussing why Telltale Games chose WiiWare as an exclusive console platform for the hilarious new Tales of Monkey Island.

Nintendo also be unveiled the first in a series of animations produced exclusively for Nintendo DSiWare by Aardman studios, the creators of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films. In an exclusive partnership with Nintendo, Aardman Studios has produced 12 mini animations using Flipnote Studio, the free and fun animation application for Nintendo DSi, which will be available to download for free, one per week in the run up to Christmas.

Laurent Fischer, Managing Director, Marketing & PR, Nintendo of Europe said: "The market for video games is changing, reaching different people and in different ways. Wii and Nintendo DSi are also part of a new way to develop, deliver and experience games - by download.

"Exciting new, smaller developers are able to use the Nintendo Shop to reach consumers where they may have struggled before. This is encouraging different types of games to reach people, and encouraging customers to play those games direct from their consoles.

"We believe that this will complement the traditional retail model and in fact expand the overall gaming market, offering unique, innovative games that will appeal to all types of gamers. We also believe that the download phenomenon will encourage more creativity, co-creation and sharing of experiences between gamers themselves."

The event focussed on the theme of creativity and sharing, which Nintendo believes are supported by both Nintendo DSiWare and WiiWare platforms. Also on show at the event will be the Facebook application for Nintendo DSi. Announced and launched on Nintendo DSiWare recently, the application allows users to get the most out of the fun image manipulation tools on the Nintendo DSi camera, and post their photographic creations straight to their Facebook profile.

In one final exclusive, Nintendo announced that it will launch a 'Connection Ambassador Promotion'. The rewards scheme for loyal fans of WiiWare will start in Europe this October and will allow players to become Ambassadors by encouraging friends and family to get connected with their Wii. The Ambassador, as well as the player they help connect, will both receive 500 Wii Points for connecting one person. When the Ambassador helps connect 20 people (which is the maximum number for the reward), the total amount of Wii Points received will equal 10,000, which can be spent on fun and unique WiiWare games.

Even better, if the Ambassador helps 10 people connect; they can attain gold status, which will then enable the Ambassador to download all Nintendo first party NES games for free on Virtual Console! If, however, they help 20 people connect, they will be given platinum status and will be able to download for free all first party and third party NES, SNES and N64 games on Virtual Console!

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  Nintendo is giving out free games and cut Wii price? This may not be a good news for Nintendo.

  LeSomeGuy, 30-11--0001 at 00:00
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  Good news for us though.

  Andrew, 30-11--0001 at 00:00