Here's some sad news for anyone looking forward to this particular Wiiware game...

Nicalis has updated their twitter mentioning that they have cancelled the publishing of the upcoming Wiiware title La-Mulana developed by NIGORO for both US and Europe. Now Tyrone Rodriguez from Nicalis has explained the reason why they have decided to cancel La-Mulana's release, stating:

"The decision to cancel publishing of La-Mulana was a tough call, but waiting two years for NIGORO to finish development has made it near impossible to sell sufficient units on Wii. The WiiWare market has a fraction of the players from 2008. The window for release and success of software on the platform ended in 2009 and took a very steep decline. Players have moved onto other digital download platforms.

La-Mulana was originally developed without DLC in mind and, I think being their first console project, that NIGORO got a bit ahead of themselves and spent two years agonizing on getting the DLC sort of working for Japan. Unfortunately, it never passed Nintendo’s submission process in the US or EU with DLC in place. As the publisher, we’re responsible for various things, but development (which includes programming, art, music and design) is and always has been in the hands of NIGORO.

With the Wii U in the not too distant future and WiiWare sales almost non-existent, I had to make a call today. I wish them the best. They’re good game developers and good guys"

I really hope Nintendo's eshop service doesn't suffer the same fate as Wiiware, since they will lose more respect from other publishers and developers if they keep making it so difficult to get games out...

But what do you guys think ?

Source: GoNintendo ( 1 , 2 )