A few months ago, the publisher announced an impressive initial lineup of 30 games. In Japan, the publisher has already released 25 of those titles.
Today, Namco Bandai announced an additional twenty more games for the service. Look for the full list of games below:
There is no release date set for these titles, however, they will be released after the remaining five titles from the initial lineup come out in Japan. There is no word on if or when these games will be released anywhere else.
yawn. :rolleyes:
I like a lot of those.
Too bad the ONLY VCA games from Namco Bandai we have are the 3 games we got when VCA launched back in March. Hell, VC as a whole has stopped being important to Nintendo outside of Japan (a Nintendo executive has even admitted that they are shifting their focus away from VC and to WiiWare).
a Nintendo executive has even admitted that they are shifting their focus away from VC and to WiiWare
New content over old content makes sense but there is like such insignificant effort with the old content here. Adding waggle to Metroid Prime is going to take up SOME development time and testing and such. But this? You load a ROM to a server, set a price in a database, and write up a little description. If it took you a DAY to do that I would figure you're being incredibly inefficient.
You have to make sure all the core Wii functionality works fine without destroying the system.
QuoteYou have to make sure all the core Wii functionality works fine without destroying the system.
I would love to hear some horror stories. Have you found a bug that you brought attention to your supervisor, but shrugged it off? If you can't talk about it directly, that's fine.
Ian, seriously...I've worked as a tester (and hope to do so again really soon) and it's not that simple. You have to make sure all the core Wii functionality works fine without destroying the system. For example, have you ever thought about how much work must go in to ensure that you don't blow up your Wii when you hit the Home button at any point you like during the game? How about making sure the game doesn't crash when you unplug your Classic Controller? I'm willing to bet anyone who submits Virtual Console (or WiiWare, for that matter) into Nintendo has to pass their Standards screening, the Home button functionality only being one criteria. I'm all for dumping on Nintendo for how they've handled Virtual Console, but it's not as simple as just uploading a ROM.
I find it funny how even the simplest of news articles can attract a lot of haters :D
Yeah it is getting annoying. Gezz people quit derailing threads. This is about the VCA titles that are up there not about how Nintendo handles the VC.
QuoteYeah it is getting annoying. Gezz people quit derailing threads. This is about the VCA titles that are up there not about how Nintendo handles the VC.
Yeah because talking about the VC in a news thread ABOUT THE VC is totally derailing.
In total Namco has either released or announced 50 arcade games for the VC and in North America we've only had THREE of them released. Is this not relevent to this bit of news? Are ANY of these announced games going to be released here at all?
Wii need some Ms. Pac-man added to this list, to make the Galaga/Ms. Pac-man set. Thanks.
Pac-Man: Championship Edition is about 50MB is size, so it would be pushing the limit of what size Nintendo allows for WiiWare games. I would love to see it though.
Pac-Man: Championship Edition is about 50MB is size, so it would be pushing the limit of what size Nintendo allows for WiiWare games. I would love to see it though.
