Topic: How often do you play retail disc games compared to downloaded WiiWare/VC games?

Good question. I think disc games prove the bigger time sink, because I tend to buy games that time to complete in that medium and feel more compelled to play through them - certainly reviewing disc releases takes more time because they generally tend to be more complex/deep than the WiiWare games I buy.

Having said that I have so many download games that I've not put a lot of time into that I could have an entire year without retail releases and not be bothered, there's so many games I haven't completed or played enough!

Right now I probably still spend more time playing retail games just because I usually fit in Animal Crossing (I keep the town running so that my family can casually play it when they feel like it without a beloved character having moved away) and EA Sports Active (More Workouts) on a typical weeknight. Overall, though, downloadable titles fit better into my time and budget while I'm teaching during the school year. I bought NyxQuest in mid-February and haven't quite finished it yet (I'm close, not counting the fact that I haven't found most of the relics). I'm not worried about being able to transfer them because there are very few titles that are so evergreen that I keep coming back to them. Hopefully, they will come up with a transfer system at some point or go to a system more like PSN so it's not so problematic in the future.

For me, it's like 80% Virtual Console, 15% retail, and 5% WiiWare.

Without the VC I would barely even use this thing at all.