Such is the risk of saturating your library with non-games meant for grandmothers and gifters. Tecmo confirms the latest casualty in the Wii WIP camp: Tecmo Bowl Wii. Previously known to be in development for the console and expected as a 2009 release, a Tecmo rep has now confirmed to G4 that the project has been mutated into the considerably less-interesting Family Fun Football, a game that–preconceptions be damned–has “shovelware” written all over it.
“As much as we’d like to say this [Family Fun Football] is a completely different game, it did start out as the ‘Tecmo Bowl Wii’ project,” a Tecmo spokesperson told me this morning. “However, given the recent trend on the Wii and its target audience, Tecmo made a business decision to switch the project into a family oriented football game. So then what happens to Tecmo Bowl? For now, we’re focusing on bringing Tecmo Bowl to the Xbox LIVE Arcade [in] early 2010.” [G4]
The (only) good news is that we’ll now be seeing Tecmo Bowl on Xbox Live Arcade.
We’ll have more on this development as it takes place.
