{"id":93,"date":"2006-08-02T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/02\/ubisoft-and-midway-supporting-wii\/"},"modified":"2006-08-02T09:16:50","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T15:16:50","slug":"ubisoft-and-midway-supporting-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/ubisoft-and-midway-supporting-wii\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubisoft and Midway supporting Wii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like Ubisoft and Midway are both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3152589\">showing a lot of love<\/a> for the Wii:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"Ubisoft Loves Wii news from 1UP.com\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.nerdflood.com\/quote.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><i>While speaking on a panel at the Ziff Davis Electronic Games Summit in Napa earlier today, Ubisoft North America President Laurent Detoc revealed that his company currently has seven titles in development for Nintendo&#8217;s upcoming Wii platform. This show of support came as a surprise to many, as the company had previously only demonstrated two of those seven titles: <\/i><i>Rayman Raving Rabbids and <\/i><i>Red Steel.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Detoc praised the Wii several times during the panel, stating that he expects it to have &#8220;a large audience and market.&#8221; He also stated that he personally felt that in a time when fewer and fewer games appeal to him, the Wii offers plenty of enjoyment. &#8220;The first time I picked up that sucker I couldn&#8217;t stop playing it.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>On the same panel, Midway President David Zucker stated that his company has six titles in development for the Wii.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Man, this is fast becoming a <i>Wii-blog<\/i>. <i>Wiiblogs wobble, but they don&#8217;t fall down.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Blogged with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flock.com\" title=\"Flock\" target=\"_new\">Flock<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like Ubisoft and Midway are both showing a lot of love for the Wii: While speaking on a panel at the Ziff Davis Electronic Games Summit in Napa earlier today, Ubisoft North America President Laurent Detoc revealed that his company currently has seven titles in development for Nintendo&#8217;s upcoming Wii platform. This show of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[338,53,321,126],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-midway","tag-nintendo","tag-ubisoft","tag-wii","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}