Not until Nintendo stop making video game systems. During the Virtual Console lifespan, they'll mature on the service and start fixing licensing issues, and we'll start off the next generation with more games (Althought not all we have right now, but they'll eventually appear) and the next generation and etc. The longer Nintendo is in the console business, the longer the service will last.
i doubt he would say yes i heard from ign that he doesnt support video games and has this crazy idea for children to play in this strange place called "outside" i personally being 14 years young have never heard of such a place
i doubt he would say yes i heard from ign that he doesnt support video games and has this crazy idea for children to play in this strange place called "outside" i personally being 14 years young have never heard of such a place
He owns a Wii, he's one of us dude!
Heck, he might even want Earthbound released on the virtual console.
i doubt he would say yes i heard from ign that he doesnt support video games and has this crazy idea for children to play in this strange place called "outside" i personally being 14 years young have never heard of such a place
He owns a Wii, he's one of us dude!
Heck, he might even want Earthbound released on the virtual console.
lol im canadian wat do i know? if he is one of us he must allow nintendo to release earthbound
You know whoever runs Canada. Nobody else seems to know. Nobody I know at least. Outside, huh, sounds wierd, Ive heard of it in plenty of scary scary stories.
My point is this. Before WiiWare was around,VC games were released a lot more in quanity. But since WiiWare,Nintendo has almost ditched the VC. Nintendo also need to support VC Arcade instead of releasing a few games and saying,That's it! While Japan get 20 VC games! There is a lack of Nintendo 64 games and other systems' games. WHAT IS WRONG WITH NINTENDO!?
But I can imagine them forcing us to buy the same games again in the next generation console.
How, by threatening your family?
Seriously, wouldn't you just keep the Wii for that stuff? I wouldn't consider buying VC content again if Nintendo loses their minds and makes a newer system that doesn't allow you to download stuff you already purchased on the other Wii. That would seem a sure fire way to get people to upgrade their hardware (which Nintendo does make money on): full backwards compatibility and maintaining the same Wii Shop and content so that you're just swapping the box and losing your save game files (of course the best final update before the launch of a new Wii would allow you to copy ALL save files to SD to use your games on the new system).
I was nervous about this... ...yet I was thinking more along the lines of "What would happen to VC after a successor to the Wii Console would commence?"
@53: Yes, that does sound like the most sensible idea: forcing people to re-buy hundreds of pounds worth of DLC instead of letting them transfer them for free so they can spend their money on important launch releases and a myriad of pointless plastic peripherals.
In fact, if I were running Nintendo I'd make sure you had to pay a subscription fee for the service too (lets say £10 per month because it's a nice round number) Plus I'd make the games subscription linked so if you miss one service payment you'd loose all those games and have to re-buy them again. Mwah-ha-ha!
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@calculon: As messed up as Nintendo might be now, I'm sure glad they don't have YOU running things!
I've spent over $300 on Wii download games in the past year. If Nintendo doesn't figure out a way to transfer games from the Wii to the next system, they're going to have a riot on their hands from serious Nintendo geeks like me. Question is, will they care, or will they still be so busy catering to low-tier markets that they basically say "F you, loyal fanbase" even more than they already have?
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I think it really depends on the vision for a successor to the Wii. If the Wii is indeed to follow the DS model and have a simple hardware upgrade in the next 3 years that maybe adds HD or just a bunch of different colours, built-in WiiSpeak and Motion Plus and more internal memory (I think this is more likely than HD output myself) then that's hundreds of additional VC titles that could be released before the true successor comes to market. If this successor machine is (as some analysts predict is the direction all gaming consoles) going to be a download-only media hub type of system then I cannot see any reason why you couldn't (possibly for a fee) get Nintendo to transfer your Shop Account to a new piece of kit which would maybe have an optical drive solely for backwards compatibility (I'd think Gamecube support would be dropped to slim down the box -- no controller ports/memory card slots) with the old Wii software library. This would effectively give them some kind of hook into legions of Wii owners -- I know that would help me to justify the upgrade path (though this might end up orphaning my Japanese Wii -- unless they had a provision for importers?)...
It won't stop, I think. In the next gen, they'll probably add Gamecube to the VC... adding a pretty huge roster. Games get released quite rapidly. If they run out, it won' t be anytime in our lifetime, XD.
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