Bethesda Eyes up Wii

Bethesda, famed for its mature RPG titles such as Fallout 3, has designs on the Wii.

"We are going to make an announcement on a really big Wii game this year, we've got a couple of other things in the pipeline, and it's a format we're really looking at with the right approach", said Bethesda's European MD, Sean Brennan in an interview.

There was nothing very specific said about the game itself, but it was suggested that the game will be a mature title rather than the usual family friendly fare. "We're not going to establish a new range and call if 'My Girly Game Range' or whatever these other companies are doing, it's so me-too and boring", Brennan said.

Postulating at the amount of customers Bethesda could target with a mature Wii game, Brennan said, "If it's five per cent of the market and you can own that space it's worth doing because you can achieve volume. If you can't own it at five per cent, it's not worth doing, quite frankly".

SEGA has taken the biggest third-party punt at Wii-exclusive adult games recently. It released MadWorld and House of the Dead: Overkill on the platform (reviewed here and here), but neither did stellar business. Elsewhere in the Wii's (not-so-big) mature pipeline, EA has Dead Space: Extraction in production.

^{Source: GamesIndustry.biz}