Nintendo has announced that it will be making eight game titles available for its new Wii download service when it launches in the UK on the 20th May.

Using a broadband connection, customers will soon be able to download games directly to their console for a price of around £3.50 and £11.50. Credit is accumulated in the form of “Wii points” that can be bought with a credit or debit card at a number of different high street stores.

The launch titles have been announced as; Dr Mario & Germ Buster, Final Fantasy Chrystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, Lost Winds, Pirates: The Key of Dreams, Pop, Star Soldier R, Toki Tori and TV Show King.

The new broadband download service is hoped to attract smaller game studios to develop games for the console that would previously not have been able to create big budget games.

Wii’s founder and creative director Nic Watt spoke to the BBC on the new download service: “We are a new studio and this is our first title. Getting a contract to make a disc-based game can be hard going. With WiiWare, there are no upfront costs. We just sell as many copies as we sell. It cuts out the middle man and allows us to fund our next project.”

BT Total Broadband are currently offering new subscribers to their 8Mb BT Total Broadband Option 2 and 3 packages the chance to get a free copy of Mario Strikers Charged Football. In order to claim for their free game, customers are asked to make a note of their broadband order confirmation number displayed on the final page of their confirmation email and visit http://btnintendo.onlinerebates.com/ to complete the claim form.

Source: BBC

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