Wii Loses Exclusive With High Voltage's The Grinder

High Voltage Software President Kerry Ganofsky and Chief Creative Officer Eric Nofsinger revealed their upcoming monster/zombie shooter, The Grinder, will no longer be a Wii exclusive.

During an interview with IGN today, the company executives confirmed The Grinder would be coming to PS3, Xbox 360 and PC. This announcement comes as a bit of a surprise as High Voltage has previously been a strong Wii supporter, creating such titles as The Conduit and a variety of WiiWare games.

"Bringing our third internal IP to all the current-generation systems allows us to show off what our company can really do and get it into the hands of the most gamers" said Nofsinger.

High Voltage confirmed that PS3, 360, and PC versions will be shown at March's Game Developers Conference.

New details on single-player mode were also revealed:

"We have a large gameplay experience planned which includes a lengthy story mode, planned DLC, and an experience system that promotes replayability. I don't want to give too much away, but we are very excited about the release of Grinder as well as providing future support of the game with regular updates" Ganofsky said.

A new trailer for the game can be viewed below:

The Grinder is set to release Halloween 2011. When asked why such a distant launch date was chosen, they explained by saying:

"With the move to all of the current-generation systems, higher resolution art content needs to be created which takes a bit longer than our previous games."

Ultimately, however, that does not explain why the Wii version could not launch first, giving it exclusivity for a time before the higher resolution artwork for the other versions is ready.