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Technically, Atlus Is A DSiWare Developer

By Spencer . May 1, 2009 . 8:39am

Technically, Atlus Is A DSiWare Developer Aside from releasing a few games on the Virtual Console, Atlus Japan hasn’t done much with digital distribution. Covertly, they were working onItsudemo Purikura Kiradeko Premium for DSiWare. Yes, that DSiWare sticker photo app.

 

Nintendo asked Atlus, who was a cornerstone in the print club explosion, to create this title for DSiWare. One of the programmers who worked on Growlanser and Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor actually programmed Itsudemo Purikura Kiradeko Premium. Atlus didn’t do all of the work. Nintendo assisted with the background music, but Atlus played a key role bringing blinged out frames to DSiWare.

 

Now that Atlus has experience with DSiWare what will their next project be? Meanwhile, Atlus USA will make their digital distribution debut with Droplitz.

 


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  • CleruTesh

    What is the size cap for DSi games? I sure hope some games with a bit more substance start coming out. So far the service as a whole seems quite underwhelming.

    • http://www.siliconera.com Spencer

      You know that’s a really good question. The ultimate upper limit now is the DSi’s internal memory since you can only play games loaded on the DSi. So 256MB? I doubt a developer would make a game that hogs all of a DSi’s memory though so maybe a quarter of that, 64MB.

      • CleruTesh

        Well doesn’t Nintendo cap WiiWare at around ~40MB?
        So I was thinking with half that, the cap would be around ~20MB.
        Putting that in old school, we’re talking around 160Mb, right?
        So full games of SNES quality or better (like the excellent DS Chrono Trigger) should be possible on DSiWare?
        So what’s the hold up?

  • lostinblue

    well, Atlus is technically a Wii developer too, but they can’t be arsed to do anything relevant these days.

    I’ll wait and see; not that I have a DSi anyway.

  • Katha

    I highly doubt this is going to be released outside Japan… too bad. Another potential DSi buyer GOOONE :P

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