In the recent Next-Gen article on user created content becoming a driving force in console games, including Nintendo's Miis and Will Wright's upcoming Spore, one interesting and unexpected nugget of info rests. It seems that Nintendo has not yet released tools to allow third party developers to import user created Miis into their games.

From the piece:

But perhaps the biggest weakness of Miis at the moment is the lack of third-party support. According to EA producer Eric Chartrand, Nintendo hasn't released the necessary tools to put Miis into third-party games yet.

As Next-Gen's Blake Snow writes, it would indeed be wise to allow third-parties to integrate Miis into their games, and quickly. However, to the best of my knowledge, we've seen no non-Nintendo published software featuring Miis. Crude approximations? Oh yeah. Tons! Since Nintendo's latest console is just a few months old, we'll chalk it up to growing pains. And we'll ask Nintendo reps at GDC exacly when we can expect to see Miis outside of the company's own software. Michael McWhertor

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