Hudson Puts WiiWare Demo Online

Unlike the XBox 360 and Playstation 3, the Wii still does not have free downloadable demos for all their online titles. This erases the try before you buy method that all nonNintendo users have grown accustomed to.

So if you are a publisher with a game for WiiWare that you want people to try out and Nintendo refuses to put up a demo for it, what do you do? Well, Hudson may have found a method.

Anyone who visits the company's Japanese website can try a demo of their upcoming Wiiware offering Lost In Shadow (known in Japan as Tower of Shadow) inside their browser via the miracle of Adobe Flash.

Nintendo had offered demos of a small handful of WiiWare titles late last year but have already taken them down is Europe and claim they will taker it down soon in other regions as well.

Its great seeing Hudson taking initiative. I have not bothered buying many WiiWare titles for this reason. If I have no idea what the game is going to be like, I have no plans on buying it.