@Brooks83: I totally agree with ya. The VC is the biggest reason I bought the Wii before a PS3 or 360. I wish Nintendo would at least say why they are not releasing as many VC games. I mean is it a licensing thing??? Was sales for VC games so low that they maybe thought that releasing one a month was better? Nintendo owes us at least an explanation.
I mean I just got the 1989 TMNT Arcade game and TMNT: Turtles in Time from the XBLA. TMNT: Arcade came out on the NES and Turtles in Time came out on Super NES so why dont they have those on the VC. I'd rather give my money to Nintendo than Microsoft but if Nintendo is going the route they are with the VC, I just might have to.
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It looks like we won't be getting a new Nintendo console at least up until early 2012. That's around 80 weeks left of possible VC games - probably more like 120 if it releases in Holiday 2012.
There's no way that Nintendo has 80 first-party NES, SNES, or N64 games left to release (please prove me wrong ). In order for them to release a game every week, they need steady support from third-parties, and from what I've heard the VC isn't very profitable for them. I think it's apparent that as of late, Nintendo likes releasing their big-name VC games on holidays. We got Mario Tennis around the 4th of July, and Super Mario Kart and Pilotwings last Christmas.
Discontinuing the service would be stupid. There's a lot of good games already available, and most I haven't even been able to buy yet for lack of cash.
The lack of releases is only one complaint in my overall dissatisfaction with Nintendo's handling of the VC. Honestly, if they wouldn't keep us in the dark about everything VC releated, I probably wouldn't be that upset. Why the secrecy? It's been that way since the beginning.
I STILL can't understand why people get upset over this.
There is only a finite quality of decent standard games that are going to shift enough to make it turn a decent return. This is why the number of VC releases is diminishing.
Because some of us purchased a Wii primarily for Virtual Console games. Think of it is this way, say you purchased a Wii for Nintendo's killer first party titles, but 3 years in Nintendo of America suddenly decides to release only 2 first party titles a year. While Japan is off playing Super Mario Galaxy 2, US gamers would have to wait full year just for it to be released here. I think a lot people would be outraged and might even sell their Wii's, don't you? It's the same general idea. And it's not like there's no good games left to be released on the service. Most of the 3rd parties still have quality games in the vaults. Even Nintendo themselves still have some excellent games. Star Fox and Yoshi's Island being the 2 major ones of course. And what about Donkey Kong 64? Surely that could and should be released.
I was just beginning to accept this biweekly crap, as awful as it was, but now they go and pull this. Not cool at all. I can only hope they'll release 2 VC games next Monday to make up for this, but I'm dreaming really.
6 months of token VC releases of titles I wouldn't buy vs 1 VC game a month with one good one, I'd take the one a month, I just don't get how people would be happy with artificially swamping VC for the sake of it, sure every not so good game has at least a few fans, I'd love Bank Panic for example, even if its unlikely to appear in any video game top list, but I don't see the logic in Nintendo putting their effort into such a thing, when like it or not, wiiware is doing so well, can't see the situation changing anytime soon, unless more developers sign up to VC.
Effort? Please man... It doesn't take Nintendo of America a lot of "effort" to put old games on VC. If anything, it takes a lot more effort to have new games developed for WiiShovelWare and DSiWare. Sure, they have to arrange deals with the 3rd party developers of these games, but that's not THAT difficult. Most 3rd parties love reselling these old games all over again. It's PURE PROFIT. It's just NOA being lazy, plain and simple. They simply don't care that us retro gamers are mighty pissed. They'll just continue hawking out their WiiWare crap week after week month after month whether we want it or not.
Vio any argument I could make would obviously fall on deaf ears where your concerned, wiiware isn't all shovelware anymore than 360 is all FPS, I really think some peoples expectations of what Nintendo can bring to VC are kind of unrealistic, 1 VC game a month is hardly the biggest outrage in the world.
Vio any argument I could make would obviously fall on deaf ears where your concerned, wiiware isn't all shovelware anymore than 360 is all FPS, I really think some peoples expectations of what Nintendo can bring to VC are kind of unrealistic, 1 VC game a month is hardly the biggest outrage in the world.
Let's get real here. Out of the nearly 250 WiiWare games available, only about 50 are worth getting. And that number is probably being generous. As I mentioned above, the simple fact that they are now releasing 1 game a month isn't my only complaint. Other than throwing the roms up every Monday and issuing a press release, they have put very little effort into the service. They have barely advertised the service. They never do anything promotion wise to get interest in the service, such as contests, sales, etc. other than the Sega sales, but I have a feeling that was more Sega's doing than Nintendos. They haven't even updated the look of the VC since it first launched. Normally that would fall under the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" category, but it's not like they are doing anything else with it.
And what I find most offensive of all, is why they won't just tell us what is going on. They treat the VC like it's some sort of big secret. How about letting us know what games are gonna come out soon? It's been a guessing game more or less this whole time. People say that the VC isn't as profitable as it once was, and that that is why they aren't focusing on it as much. Well that may be true, but it's really all just speculation. Nintendo doesn't say ANYTHING regarding the VC, how well it's doing, what it's future plans with the service are, etc. They are keeping the fans of the VC in the dark. I've been a loyal VC fan since the beginning (I've been on this site since 2007) and like other people here the VC was a huge selling point for the Wii to me. I don't expect Nintendo to throw out every game ever made on the VC next week, but as someone who has spent a lot of money on the VC, I'd like to see Nintendo at least have the decency to not keep me in the dark. And until then, I'll get my retro video game fix some other way.
I agree that Nintendo has not done nearly enough to promote the service. Why can't they give away some points like with dsiware? The 500 point cards with big games at gamestop was a small step in that direction.
Most of my friends who own a wii don't even know that you can download retro games on it.
Vio any argument I could make would obviously fall on deaf ears where your concerned, wiiware isn't all shovelware anymore than 360 is all FPS, I really think some peoples expectations of what Nintendo can bring to VC are kind of unrealistic, 1 VC game a month is hardly the biggest outrage in the world.
No one ever said it was the biggest outrage in the world. We're just venting because that's what you do on internet forums. Are you forgetting where you are? This is the Virtual Console forum. If you want to read happy, "everything is great" comments, go over to the WiiWare or DSiWare forums. I'm sure they're happy campers over there.
I agree that Nintendo has not done nearly enough to promote the service. Why can't they give away some points like with dsiware? The 500 point cards with big games at gamestop was a small step in that direction.
Most of my friends who own a wii don't even know that you can download retro games on it.
WTF? Really? How is that even possible if they have their Wii's online? Surely if they've ever visited the Wii Shop Channel to download games, they've seen the big old "Virtual Console" icon sitting right next to the WiiWare one there.
The lack of releases is only one complaint in my overall dissatisfaction with Nintendo's handling of the VC. Honestly, if they wouldn't keep us in the dark about everything VC releated, I probably wouldn't be that upset. Why the secrecy? It's been that way since the beginning.
I agree with this. Some sort of official schedule would be most welcome.
Vio any argument I could make would obviously fall on deaf ears where your concerned, wiiware isn't all shovelware anymore than 360 is all FPS, I really think some peoples expectations of what Nintendo can bring to VC are kind of unrealistic, 1 VC game a month is hardly the biggest outrage in the world.
No one ever said it was the biggest outrage in the world. We're just venting because that's what you do on internet forums. Are you forgetting where you are? This is the Virtual Console forum. If you want to read happy, "everything is great" comments, go over to the WiiWare or DSiWare forums. I'm sure they're happy campers over there.
@Brookes: going so far as to call Nintendo's VC handling offensive is just a tad OTT, also 50 great wiiware titles sounds pretty good to me, not much VC stuff left at least not Nintendo owned stuff anyway, if a big company like EA put their games on to VC, then absolutely give VC more focus, otherwise the wiiware focus is the obvious sensible way to go, but whatever, I'm done beating a dead horse I'll leave that to outraged retro betrayed.
Vio any argument I could make would obviously fall on deaf ears where your concerned, wiiware isn't all shovelware anymore than 360 is all FPS, I really think some peoples expectations of what Nintendo can bring to VC are kind of unrealistic, 1 VC game a month is hardly the biggest outrage in the world.
No one ever said it was the biggest outrage in the world. We're just venting because that's what you do on internet forums. Are you forgetting where you are? This is the Virtual Console forum. If you want to read happy, "everything is great" comments, go over to the WiiWare or DSiWare forums. I'm sure they're happy campers over there.
Looking at the Wiiware releases from the last month and a half, I can't imagine they'd be very happy either.
Vio any argument I could make would obviously fall on deaf ears where your concerned, wiiware isn't all shovelware anymore than 360 is all FPS, I really think some peoples expectations of what Nintendo can bring to VC are kind of unrealistic, 1 VC game a month is hardly the biggest outrage in the world.
No one ever said it was the biggest outrage in the world. We're just venting because that's what you do on internet forums. Are you forgetting where you are? This is the Virtual Console forum. If you want to read happy, "everything is great" comments, go over to the WiiWare or DSiWare forums. I'm sure they're happy campers over there.
Looking at the Wiiware releases from the last month and a half, I can't imagine they'd be very happy either.
I know, right? There are so many good games coming out that my wallet just can't keep up with them. Stupid Nintendo, you need to slow down with the WiiWare releases. ^_~
Vio any argument I could make would obviously fall on deaf ears where your concerned, wiiware isn't all shovelware anymore than 360 is all FPS, I really think some peoples expectations of what Nintendo can bring to VC are kind of unrealistic, 1 VC game a month is hardly the biggest outrage in the world.
No one ever said it was the biggest outrage in the world. We're just venting because that's what you do on internet forums. Are you forgetting where you are? This is the Virtual Console forum. If you want to read happy, "everything is great" comments, go over to the WiiWare or DSiWare forums. I'm sure they're happy campers over there.
Looking at the Wiiware releases from the last month and a half, I can't imagine they'd be very happy either.
LOL! Very true, but at least they get something every week and some of the games are alright I guess. That Pearl Harbor Trilogy game is supposed to be pretty decent.
U dont want VC too run out do u, I know it wont be for a long time but still every game released on the VC is another that wont be but at least we have what we have for VC although I would like a VCA version of Pac-Man, DK and Street Fighter. I also want Saturn Games like NiGHTS.
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