The Sadness, a Wii game that we were talking about (the one that lost his development team, and we guess, any publisher for that reason) said they found a new publisher (?)

“We would like to apologize for rumors and doubts that might have arisen. We want to assure that Nibris makes great effort to make our projects completely innovative and meeting highest quality standards”

And people still thinks this is happening, good for them. I don’t want to keep being a pessimist so I will wish everyone good luck; but we all know that when this kind of things happens the results are too obvious: 1) the game won’t be anything close to what they said in the first place 2) the game won’t be happening. Choose your poison; we just expect to see the people of NIBRIS launching their game and have a good amount of success. Keep it up people!

This blog post claims that, The Sadness (Wii) has no longer it’s developer team and we aren’t going to see anything from NIBRIS team in a long, long time after this. I’m the last surprised person after reading this, I knew this kind of thing will happen with this game because it had the usual “Prey/DukeNukem 3D-2″ signs all over it.

Hi FRONTLINE Studios; NIBRIS claims that you are programming the game called Sadness for the Nintendo Wii. […] I was just wondering if you can confirm that you
are programming the game Sadness for NIBRIS and can for a fact say that the game is not fake.

And, what the good people of FRONTLINE studios answered to this question? Well, here it is:

Hello Ryan, I can confirm that FRONTLINE is no longer interested in developing Sadness game based on Nibris’ concept, and also Nibris is not authorized to claim
anything on behalf of FRONTLINE.

Best regards,
Marcin Machel

Now, this is true sadness. People, start learning that you don’t disclosure your game idea until you have at least, 90% of the development completed; then you can come out and scream your idea to the world, but if you just have some concepts to show, people like our friend Ryan here that emailed FRONTLINE Studios will get angry and make too many questions; questions that could damage your reputation as developers and your future as a company. And Ryan is right, he is right to ask all the questions he wants, because he wants to know if the game is going out for true or he will end up, like many others, waiting for something that a) won’t be close to his expectations or b) won’t come out at all. Now, they will have a hard time getting something published again after this (that’s my point of view, I hope they get more of their games published! but it might become hard!)

Gamers are the only people developers should satisfy, not publishers. Games, need to be made FOR gamers; not for publishers or for the press. Hey, keep the spirit up, everyone; everybody! new games are still about to come!

Nintendo made the Wiimote with accessories capabilities, but there are just a few companies out there taking advantage of the great world of accessories, the reason; you need to keep developing games for specific accessories, and if the game you developed isn’t a success story then your accessory won’t make any sells either… But the good news is that there is still companies with big cojones, like Taito; the old mother of games has a great accessory for the Wiimote; a train control panel (yup, and it looks excellent). Here, have a look at this video showing it!:

There are some rumors that Capcom Entertainment is about to come up with a Soccer accessory, it may happen sooner than we expected! stay tunned!

I just read from Cubed3 that at the Nibris forums the people behind The Sadness is answering some questions from time to time about this “when-it’s-coming” game. We all know the dangers of announcing a game when it’s not even completed at %1; this can result into a lost of interest by most of the gamers or high expectations.

If you don’t believe me, just read this comments people left at Cubed3 site:

“This is sounding brilliant. I can tell it’ll probably mess up my mind when I play it but heck, I don’t care. It sounds great.”

“Orchestrated music?!?! HUZZA!! Do we know who’s composing??”

“Very nice news! I can’t wait for that trailer now!”

And the list goes on and on… people is taking this game too seriously and, the seem to expect being blowed up of their chairs. Cubed3d said “Graphics wise - the game will incorporate plenty of fog effects during gameplay, and when asked how close the concept screenshots would look to in-game, the company’s response, pleasingly, was, near. Very near.”. It sounds like someone may be doing promises they won’t be able to keep! but let’s wait and see what will happen. We already saw a lots of “prey” and “duke nukem 3D’s” during our past gamer’s years to be excited about some weird announcement someone did on the air.

Best case? well, if you ask me, I would say they are running like crazy to have at least a functional bug-free demo where they can meet 10% of the player’s expectations, then they will throw it to some cool editor who is going to make the trailer look like if it were going to be the last game for Wii. After that, we will wait another year and hopefully, we will have the game and then, it won’t be as super as everyone expected, it will be just another game but with a minor features that by then, everyone else will be having too.

But, that’s old gammer talking. Let’s the new generation learn from their own history! In the meanwhile, here is some new artowrk for the Wii Game, The Sadness.

Update: it appears that Nibris said to Cubed3 web site they will be releasing a trailer much more sooner they expected and they will be handling it to them (the Cubed3 people). The trailer will be sent this year and the game will be set to launch no later than 2008; that means November-December people, if not first months of 2008.