Super Meat Boy Should be on the WiiWare Menu Soon

This game looks promising. Hope they eventually release it on wiiware.

Meh, not really interested. Still have my platforming-hands full with other games.

This looks brilliant. What's with the Commander Video screenshots?

Commander Video is going to appear in Super Meat Boy, and Meat Boy is going to appear in BIT.TRIP FATE

He's one of the playable characters LuWiiGi.

@James: He already "was" in Runner.

Oh, does this game still exist?

Judging by Corbie's latest avatar, I can tell that he is really pumped for this game.

I loved the Flash version of this.

I'm so pumped for this game it's not even remotely funny.

You're not the only one Corbie. I'm pretty darn excited about it too. I just have to figure out which version I'm going to get, WiiWare or XBLA.

Well I'll be getting the WiiWare version for review, but I'm all over this XBLA version since it comes out first. Bring it on!

I know that Commander Video is supposed to be a Wii exclusive character and Xbox 360 has Tim from Braid. Corbie, do you know if that boy from Limbo will be in the XBLA version too?

I'm waiting for the inevitable PSN version personally. XD

Ed says that there will not be a PSN version. And as for unlockable characters, they're being very tight-lipped about them.

Do want Wiiware version

They promise a return to the hardcore era with titles like Ghouls'n'Ghosts? This means the game is insanely difficult, has no save-feature, almost nobody can beat it and you can't defeat the final boss unless you go through the game all over again? I don't know if this is good or bad. Do they want to scare people away before it is even released?

Get that meat cooked on WiiWare, soon! It's been frozen for far too long!

The whole point of this game is to get killed over and over and over again, that's what makes it so much fun. The levels are short, just tough as nails. And it has a save feature. I think they were just describing the game as similar in style to Ghouls & Ghosts in the way the game requires a lot of trial and error. And if your gaming skills aren't up to par, I hear they're working on a new My Little Pony game for WiiWare.

i wont get the game after on how the company sold out to make this a mutisystem game and then bringing to the wii at last they can suck donkey meat i refuse to support them

Definitely getting the 360 version. Because well, it comes out first. That and the whole high definition thing.

@21:
Yeah, how dare they expand their audience and potential profits.

The bastuds!

@Egg miester: that's nice. i'll be sure to gift it to someone else in your name. :3

Finally, a challenge of my gaming skills! Bring it on, Team Meat!

What could possibly be worst than a fetus flicking you off?

It being Corbie's Avatar

An old school game inspired by classic NES games...

I suppose we should be grateful it's even coming on the WiiWare.

@Swiket If your computer has Bluetooth, you can set up so it can read your Wii Remote, and play it as a your were controlling it on the Wii.

@Chicken Brutus i wouldn't mind if they did it at start but to start to dev the game on the wii only then a year later they say that it wont be a exclusive and the wii is getting it last pissed me off they should have released on the wii at the start and then a few weeks later on the 360 i feel like this was deliberately do this to the wii audience

Super Meat Boy was never intended to be a WiiWare exclusive.

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(8th comment's response - from the developer Edmund McMillen)

@Egg miester: devs don't do things just to spite fans. they do things in order to get their product(s) out to the biggest amount of people possible in hopes they'll actually make some money off of them. in this case, media picked up on the 'wiiware exclusive' part and neglected the 'for now' afterward, and they wound up getting the MS contract later on.

that said, a level editor for the PC version sounds mighty fine. i might pick it up in that incarnation...

So if I love the challenge of Bit Trip, should I get this?

(Really I just want it to play as chibi Commander Video)

I do remember someone commenting on a newpost on this site that the revelation of Super Meat Boy appearing on Xbox and Steam (at a lower price no doubt, AND with extra content) would effectively kill the sales of the WiiWare version (after it was (wrongly) hyped as a WiiWare exclusive)

But we can't blame Team Meat for that - they never said it was going to be an exclusive.

I myself - a proud owner of a PC computer might opt for the Steam version if it's considerably cheaper and sod the so called novelty of playing a retro game with a retro controller.

@Corbie:

No PSN? That sucks, I guess I'll get it on XBLA then. =D

Okay Ed says that CommanderVideo will definitely be in all versions of Super Meat Boy, but he's not sure about the others. He's trying to get some WiiWare characters to replace some of the XBLA exclusive characters to make them more recognizable to Wii owners.

But they can't have Mr Video on XBLA! He's a WiiWare hero. OUR hero.

Hmm, that is surprising that Commander Video will be appearing in the XBLA version as well. Does this mean that we will be seeing a Bit. Trip game on other consoles in the near future?

Can't wait to play this on XBLA.

They just need to chop the xbla version so it will fit the file size limit of WiiWare, which is kinda a shame but I'll be getting the xbla anyway so whatever.

It only makes sense that they release this on WiiWare.

@Swiket
Epic reference.

Very interested in this game.

To all who said it was weird to have Commander Video on the Xbox version:
This game also has Tim, from Braid, a game not released on WiiWare.

Cant wait! Bring it!

i love all the nintendo loyal fans.................... rather buy the game on the 360 then the wii

I'm getting the Wii version. I'm not a big fan of the Cra...er, Xbox 360

I will get this on XBLA since I was never a fan of WiiWare. I prefer Virtual Console and XBLA.

PS: And I won't start downloading WiiWare games anyway as long as Nintendo keeps Virtual Console starving. That's not a difficult decision for me since Castlevania Rebirth is the only exclusive game on WiiWare I'm really interested in.

@Egg miester: so long as Super Meat Boy gets purchased (e.g. the developer is being supported), what difference does it make which system it gets purchased for? last i checked you weren't buying it anyway, so what do you care?

This looks alot like Jumper on PC. And that is in no way a bad thing. Im pretty sure that was the inspiration though since Ogmo (the main character of Jumper) is in the game. But that just makes it all the more awesome. Cant wait for this one.

unless there going to put some really good content for the Wiiware one,
then there no point on getting it for the Wii.

a Mario Meat would be Cool

@theblackdragon your right i am not buying the game because its also on the 360 i don't support sell outs or greed but i find it funny that in america given a choice people rther buy a game on the 360 i feel sorry for japanese consoles now days

@Guybrush_Threepwood i feel sorry for you you have missed a lot of great games on wiiware and you can't blame nintendo on VC they have released all of their games it the 3rd party dev and they stoped supporting vc because its not selling in america

@21
As often as you say that, I doubt you have a single 3rd party Wii game. You even said that about de blob, puhleeese. It's just an excuse for you to save money at this point.

@32
I wouldn't go that far now. That whole NBA Jam thing still feels like EA giving big N fans the finger.

@51
Because it's a nintendo site duh. Show me someone on a 360 site waiting for a Wii version of a game "instead".

I find it terrible that, before anyone even knew it was a rail shooter, people said "I'm getting Ghost Recon on 360". The same happened with PoP:TFS and the sales prove it. We came up with all sorts of excuses as to why we didn't buy some action game while the same publisher released just dance to around 3 million. That's just sad.

@brandonbwii: lol, it's certainly a costly way to spite the fans, then... more like cutting off their noses to spite their own faces, really. getting contracts with publishers/game companies/whatever, having to develop a game for more than one system, going through different lotcheck processes and dealing with different percentages of payout and whatnot, it's all too costly and arduous a process for a dev to simply be doing it because they don't like a portion of the available fanbase. companies don't do things just to get back at people, not if they want to stick around for a while.

also, regarding 51, why do i have to show anyone anything? i don't care what system people buy a game on, and neither should anyone else; it's none of anyone's business but the people buying the game, and so long as they're not pirating it that's money toward the developers (once whatever initial quotas are met, idk how much they have to sell in order to finally see royalties). get the version that interests you the most, and if Nintendo wants to keep people buying games on their system(s), they need to relax their restrictions on size/content and whatnot, step up their game for the next-gen Wii so that the WiiWare versions will match up evenly with (or better than) the PSN/XBLA versions.

@brandonbwii: It's an obvious fact that a high ratio of Nintendo (hardcore-)gamers owns also a PS3 or Xbox360 this generation. Why should those people buy Wii ports with inferior graphics and online capabilities if they have other options? Last generation multiplatform games on Gamecube were on a par with the competition or even better. But the hardware gap between Wii and PS3/Xbox360 is just too big. So most people who have a Wii and a HD console will only be interested in Wii exclusives when they're looking for Wii games.

@guybrush
True, even I have a 360. I have to be one of the few that buys more Wii games than 360 (that'll change though, with back to school and all). I admit to being a bit of a fanboy and I don't think the Wii was treated properly by devs since the beginning. As for the whole I'll get it on 360 comments, there are times the Wii version is superior or at least different enough to warrant attention, sports titles as a prime example. Instead the first comment on a Nintendo site is still "I'll get it on another platform". That's what I find a bit annoying.

@brandonbwii:

Instead the first comment on a Nintendo site is still "I'll get it on another platform". That's what I find a bit annoying.

it took six comments before someone even mentioned Steam, and they said they were torn between which version to buy... and it's not like it wasn't already mentioned in the article that the XBLA version's content is complete. bringing up which version one will buy is very relevant in this case. :3

@dragon
I guess this is really a topic I'd like to discuss in more detail in the forums, but I'm not just talking about this story, as I have no problem with what Team Meat is doing. I mainly have a problem with the way mainstream treats Wii. I don't care that people consider Wii casual or anything like that. I care more about the amount of crap being poored on the system. It may be last-gen tech but so is DS but there seems to be more quality games on that platform. If by chance a great piece of software comes Wii's way, it's mostly ignored, especially 3rd party exclusives.

I took this game off my radar as I got tired of waiting for it, but looks like the hype machine has got me started once again. Come hither SMB w/ the quickness!

I always find it hilarious how people associate greed with the Xbox 360, but not the Japanese console makers, as if there's really any less greed among the three.

And I believe many (including myself) will buy the XBLA version mainly because it's coming out first, possibly quite a bit earlier, in fact.

Can't wait to get this.
I will be getting it on XBLA since it's coming out first and it will more then likely be cheaper then wiiware.

I'll go with whatever's cheapest, because I'm an awful human being with no loyalty except to my own finances.

@64: for shame.

For anyone complaining about the release dates for the game...several multiplatform games have had the Xbox360 version come out first. It's timed exclusivity, usually involving a contract they have with Microsoft.

Another thing I'm a hard core gamer yet I only own a Wii (and a PC). See multi-platform games really aren't a problem if you have a PC.

I want to play this game so badly, I'd even play it on 3DO.

Man, you really are desperate to play this game Corbie!