Although BioWare's games are known to run on powerful hardware, Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk talked about the possibility of developing games on the Wii. They definitely would be interested in doing so and their approach would be to create games based on what the Wii audience wants. They have nothing to announce for the time being, but their long-term goal is to expand and diversify their games, making the Wii a good fit for their plans.

Speaking to IndustryGamers as part of a larger, wide-ranging interview, BioWare's Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk briefly touched upon the idea of broadening their audience. BioWare's games have been epic in scope and we asked the duo if their role-playing games would be a good fit for the Nintendo Wii audience.

Muzyka responded, "I think the question we'd ask is, 'What is the Wii audience looking for, and what would we want to deliver that has emotionally powerful narrative?' And that probably wouldn't be exactly the same as everything else we do; we did a DS game and that was already very different from what we've done before, and the PC-only SKUs we did years ago were very different than the ones we've done for console...
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    chautemoc Jun 19, 09
    Certainly better than than the iPhone -- *bleep* you, Jacob's Story!
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      McClubbin Jun 19, 09
      Although, their Sonic Chronicles game on the DS didn't fare too well in reviews. Maybe they're just used to powerful hardware.
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        chautemoc Jun 19, 09
        74 on Metacritic is quite good (not that that's the be all end all).
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          McClubbin Jun 19, 09
          Really? I thought it might've done horribly after IGN gave it like a 6.5. Nearly forgot that was IGN though. >.>

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