I have yet to play Castle Crashers, but by looking at the videos I think it could be possible to make it for Wii Ware. Would the controls and stuff work for the Wii? Its just that I really wanna play this game, but I don't own a 360 :(

It wasn't made with WiiWare limitations so I doubt they can scale it down without too much effort to be worth it. They're already working on their next game and it's a small indie team. WiiWare has a fair share of good games often enough, Onslaught is better than I thought if you have online friends to play with, Lit hasn't been out for that long either.

I think they plan a PC release, unless I just remember the Braid announcement...

Filesize is too big.  Probably could save some space by making the actual assets a little less detailed, but it'd be tough.  Game probably uses Flash, performance could be an issue but probably not.  Castle Crashers sold TONS of XBLA, so they probably would rather work on something new for XBLA rather than port to another platform with less potential sales.

There's been no rumors of a PC version of Castle Crashers, probably thinking of Braid.

Aside from the fact that Microsoft published it?

... Lol? It's XBLA, of course it's published by Microsoft. And Mega Man 9 is published by Microsoft on XBLA, Sony on PSN and Nintendo on WiiWare. They own the respective digital distribution solutions. If they also funded it that's a different point altogether, but I don't think they did?

Honestly, I think a port could be made. File size would be heavily reduced considering the sprites, backgrounds and all graphics would have to be scaled down to SD level, and mechanically the game is not that complex. With a little work, it would be possible.

However, probability is another issue altogether.

It'd be cool, for sure. It's a great game. Though, it's 150MB or so, I think, which is a bit large for the Wii's standards. They'd probably have to scale down the artwork and UI and the like to look good at 480p/i, which'll also improve the filesize problem. They may have to cut the two side game modes too, to save space.

I'd rather have it on psn
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"... Lol? It's XBLA, of course it's published by Microsoft. And Mega Man 9 is published by Microsoft on XBLA, Sony on PSN and Nintendo on WiiWare. They own the respective digital distribution solutions. If they also funded it that's a different point altogether, but I don't think they did?"

Wow, that's fucked up. Well, unless Microsoft required exclusivity to publish it then it could still go on other platforms. Still, fucked up, just to rip small developers off. Why not just charge the same regardess of if they have a publisher or not? They still bought a dev kit and everything, right? So why not let them put the game on there on their own and MS take the usual cut instead of add an arbitary "publisher" term on there and charge more for it...

See that seems very contradictory to how MS seem to take XBL's Community Games service whereby a very substantial cut of the downloads actually go to the developers themselves. I don't remember exact figures but it was pretty damn high, I would be surprised to see if MS fuck XBLA devs in the ass with regards to publishing.

"Wow, that's fucked up. Well, unless Microsoft required exclusivity to publish it then it could still go on other platforms. Still, fucked up, just to rip small developers off. Why not just charge the same regardess of if they have a publisher or not? They still bought a dev kit and everything, right? So why not let them put the game on there on their own and MS take the usual cut instead of add an arbitary "publisher" term on there and charge more for it..."

I think Microsoft has payed to keep it exclusive

It's arbitary on digital distribution platforms because they go through microsoft, sony, and nintendo anyway. They still ask for a cut even if they don't call themselves the "publisher' that's for sure, as it is their servers that are used for the distribution.

"It's arbitary on digital distribution platforms because they go through microsoft, sony, and nintendo anyway. They still ask for a cut even if they don't call themselves the "publisher' that's for sure, as it is their servers that are used for the distribution."

Publishing and Distributing sound like synonyms to me. So, what if they made their game according to standards on their own, as they have a dev kit properly and have experience with working for Microsoft systems. Would they be able to skip having  a publisher then, and therefor only ask for Microsoft's "distribution" and the lower fees associated with just that aspect than both?

Castle Crashers runs in 1080i (or is it p?), so no.

"Publishing and Distributing sound like synonyms to me. So, what if they made their game according to standards on their own, as they have a dev kit properly and have experience with working for Microsoft systems. Would they be able to skip having  a publisher then?"

The only way it would work if it was released on a disk, perhaps with Alien Hominid and their new game that they're currently working on.