ipukespiders
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They're rewarding early adopters, nothing confusing about.
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Nintendo Downloads - February 2013
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They're rewarding early adopters, nothing confusing about.
So what will happen to the VC Trial games that will go up after the official Virtual Console start? 30¢ for a month and then a price increase?
There won't be any more VC Trial games once the Wii U VC officially launches.
The official launch is in Spring, and there are trial games coming during the Summer (Yoshi and Donkey Kong)
So VC hasn't truly launched for the Wii U? Does this mean we can expect a Wii VC like launch where there was a bunch of games available?
Is this what was said?
lunchwithyuzo
Banned
Yeah, I was always under the impression the Virtual Console would officially launch before the trial campaign promotion ended.
Lair Land Story is a port of a PSP game, originally published by Arc System Works before Circle went all crazy on DSiWare. It's a love simulation game about some little girl who lost her memories and goes off for adventure in a war ravaged kingdom. Originally released in China and was popular on the PC.
As for Puzzle Craft, I have no idea. It's a completely original title.
Yes. Starts in spring, I imagine they'll have a large dump of games and then do the week-by-week thing.
That's my expectation. And the lapsed Trial games will all go up at their regular pricing on day 1, probably.
They're doing Wii U Ambassador games (not free, but so cheap that they might as well be free) without calling them Ambassador games in order to compensate for the upcoming price drop?
So how many VC games do you expect at launch? I'm guessing around 10 NES games and 5 SNES games.
Id hate for some SNES or NES games to be ambassador games. Atleast give use some N64 games.
evilromero
Member
Pilotwings 64 and all will be forgiven Nintendo.
See, I wish they'd stop saying "spring" and "summer" and just give dates because I tend to mix shit up in my head. I forgot there was overlap.
Anyway, in answer to the question "will the VC Trial games be made available immediately once the VC officially launches?", no-one knows. It seems like the sensible thing to do, but since when does sensibility inform any of Nintendo's decisions?
I very much expect them to trickle out all the same old stuff at the same old pace, I doubt they're gonna move any quicker than they have been on Wii/3DS.
If they're smart enough, there should be at least one game available from each gen to download.
From NES to GameCube.
But... we know how they work.. so gameboy games is asking too much lol
I wonder if the Virtual Console will get an exclusive space/spot on the eShop...
I'm going to be optimistic and say a pretty big chunk of the existing Wii VC (5-10%) will be up on day one. I just can't accept another trickle of games that were already trickled out.
Also: Earthbound!
It will have a spot, probably somewhere near where the demo spot is now. (As a side note, they should really update the 3DS eShop to be more like the Wii U one). They'll probably also put one or two VC games on the front page in order to promote them. They're weren't a ton of N64 games on the Wii VC, so I expect them to wait a little bit for those. As for Gamecube, it'll come soon. I'm more curious as to if Sega's coming back for another round.
I'm going to be optimistic and say a pretty big chunk of the existing Wii VC (5-10%) will be up on day one. I just can't accept another trickle of games that were already trickled out.
Also: Earthbound!
When it gets released, we better buy the hell out of it in order to get Mother 4. It worked for Sin and Punishment, and I know the Mother fanbase is much more rabid than that.
You should get ready to accept that.
Macho Madness
Member
The Wii VC actually got all the heavy hitters out early. The 3DS is pitiful in comparison.
anastazius
Neo Member
Where is the press release? Can't find it on the Nintendo.co.uk site or their Twitter feed.
£39.99, which is standard retail price these days, it seems.
Especially as I expect to see discounts of physical Castlevania. Plus non-discounted is still cheaper.
Sigismundo
Member
Lovely that we finally see Nano Assault.
Speaking of stuff coming over from the US, I'm still waiting on Cave Story+ to be in the EU/AU eShop. NightSky was released reasonably recently though so I guess this is just the usual couple of months waiting period for Nicalis games.
It's not like they hate money.
Speaking of stuff coming over from the US, I'm still waiting on Cave Story+ to be in the EU/AU eShop. NightSky was released reasonably recently though so I guess this is just the usual couple of months waiting period for Nicalis games.
It's not like they hate money.
There's one big reason: they want to charge as much as they can possibly get away with, and to raise the price ceiling wherever possible. Doesn't mean they won't discount it later, but if you think they're gonna lower their prices before launch you're kidding yourself.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
Will be picking up River King, glad we're finally getting some decent GBC titles. The pricing issue is a thing that will never change. "Max RRP" is still the excuse we'll get.
Still waiting for Wario Land III over the pond here. Although hopefully Nintendo will start releasing GB/GBC games at least once every three weeks until they exhaust the library, and proceed to move to SNES/GBA.
Edit: You guys never got GBC Shantae, did you? You do so at all costs when it comes out (presumably around when Shantae 3 does, I think).
15 euro for NAE?
Didn't expect that...
dreamer3kx
Member
Its a good game just short, I wish it was longer.
peanutbutterlatte
Member
I don't expect them to increase output for VC, they still can't decide whether they want to focus on GB or NES titles at the moment. Are all the NES Ambassadors even out yet? Always be pessimistic when it comes to Nintendo and releasing their old content, they will always take their time. Only thing I'm looking forward to is the Zelda Oracle titles, and as I predicted we might not be getting those in EU till October.
Huh, no we didn't get Shantae. Never realized that before. Import VC titles aren't unheard of (Hanabi Festival), but anything to give Nintendo an excuse to delay it I guess.
GayForMaster
Banned
Lol what a fucking joke?!
(In japan)
Earthbound 4/18
Kirby Adventure 5/16
Super Metroid 6/13
Why is there such a big fucking gap when releasing these games? Is it really that hard to port these games to the emulator? SMH man nintendo is seriously fucked.
(In japan)
Earthbound 4/18
Kirby Adventure 5/16
Super Metroid 6/13
Why is there such a big fucking gap when releasing these games? Is it really that hard to port these games to the emulator? SMH man nintendo is seriously fucked.
Huh? It's a promotion. Every game is 30 yen for 30 days.
There will be a "normal" Virtual Console besides this promotion starting sometime in spring.
GayForMaster
Banned
Ah my bad, misread it early in the morning.
They still take long to release games on vc though =(
But you have Fire Emblem.
By the way, I'm replaying Wario Land III again, such a wonderful game!