In which I stomp my feet and demand Wario Land and Kirby's Block Ball.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/blog/29672
We're nearing the end of the first quarter of 2012, and while it seems like original titles on Nintendo's eShop are coming with regularity and quality, the Virtual Console has started to get cast aside.
Since the start of 2012, the 3DS has gotten two Game Boy titles, three NES titles, and three Game Gear titles. Last year, following the eShop launch in June, there were an average of four Virtual Console games released a month. Right now, we're getting less than three, and it gets even worse if you take into consideration that two of the NES games were part of the September batch of Ambassador games, and the Game Gear titles all came in one week.
Meanwhile, the Wii has gotten three Virtual Console titles this year, which is earth-shattering after the nearly six-month drought. But Wii's Virtual Console decline during the system's life makes this early stumble by the service on 3DS worrisome, especially as Japan and Europe are both surging ahead with more Game Boy games.
Currently, Europe only has had two more Virtual Console releases than North America (Europe is also getting the Game Gear games two weeks later, so it'll be five more soon enough), but Europe is getting Virtual Console games on a regular basis, with at least two Game Boy games a month in addition to an occasional NES or Game Boy Color game. Japan currently has 25 more games available, with new games added nearly every week.
Even worse are the games that North America is missing out on right now. Europe and Japan both have Wario Land, Trip World, Kirby's Block Ball, and Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, the latter of which didn't even originally come out in Japan!
I hope this is just an anomaly, precipitated by letting the original titles on eShop take center stage. Perhaps we're on the cusp of a Virtual Console spring awakening. Unfortunately, I'll believe it when I see it, especially with the Wii's Virtual Console deterioration in recent memory.
Note: You could replace "Virtual Console" with "3DS original games" and make the same complaints for Europe, since they're still waiting for VVVVVV, Mutant Mudds, Sakura Samurai, and more. Either way, each region has something to complain about, and that sucks.
I am still waiting for Castlevania: Bloodlines and Contra Hard Corps. Actually, the Virtual Console is on track to start losing more games than it is taking in right now. I just hope that Wii U Virtual Console is not as dreadful as the one we have now, but if the 3DS is indicative of what we might get then I am not hopeful.
I am still waiting for Castlevania: Bloodlines and Contra Hard Corps. Actually, the Virtual Console is on track to start losing more games than it is taking in right now. I just hope that Wii U Virtual Console is not as dreadful as the one we have now, but if the 3DS is indicative of what we might get then I am not hopeful.
There shouldn't be a Wii U Virtual Console, it should just be a Virtual Console that is shared between the Wii and Wii U. Nintendo will probably just start over and want us to buy all those VC games over again and the Wii service will eventually disappear entirely and if you're old Wii goes kaput, too bad, you can't get those games back. But it shouldn't be that way.
It seems we're moving towards a "know what games are coming out this week earlier than three hours before they come out" future. It's still only two-three weeks before, but it's happening. We knew the Game Gear games, Zombie Slayer Diox and Arc Style Soccer's release date at the beginning of March. We know that Colors 3D is hitting on April 5, and that Ketzal's Corridors is April 12.
I just wish I didn't look at the next three weeks and grimly think "well, that's all we're getting." I'm just wired to do that because more often than not, that's all we get. I'd love to see 2-3 3DS-specific games each week for download. We're getting closer to that, but it's so frustrating because all they have to do is throw in a GB VC game every week and we're there.
If Nintendo were to raise their middle finger to all the people who payed in the hundreds of dollars for VC and Wiiware games when it is time for them to transfer their stuff over to the Wii U then Nintendo will face a **** storm so sever that they will never be able to breath again and will die of suffocation due to the smell. There is no way they are going to prevent people from transferring their stuff to the Wii U. The blow back from such a thing would be too tremendous for even Nintendo to handle.
QuoteIf Nintendo were to raise their middle finger to all the people who payed in the hundreds of dollars for VC and Wiiware games when it is time for them to transfer their stuff over to the Wii U then Nintendo will face a **** storm so sever that they will never be able to breath again and will die of suffocation due to the smell. There is no way they are going to prevent people from transferring their stuff to the Wii U. The blow back from such a thing would be too tremendous for even Nintendo to handle.
Logically that makes sense but most of the world isn't logical. We live in a world where people rebuy games they already own all the time. Tons of people on this forum do it and they're well-informed videogame fanatics. Doesn't matter. Also a large chunk of potential Wii U customers probably don't care about the VC either so it would be a complete non-factor in their purchase decision. For most people if something does not directly affect them, they don't care. And how many times to we hear "well this sucks but I'll buy it anyway". Would this sort of VC BS turn a hardcore Nintendo fan off of buying a Wii U for a new Mario game? Probably not. It takes some serious determination to truly make a company like Nintendo pay for this sort of thing. Most people won't think that denying themselves a Wii U is worth it just for the VC and that is the only way Nintendo would really care.
Does anyone know of any potential liscensing issues when it comes to the Final Fantasy Legend games? I've always wanted to play those.
Hey did everyone enjoy the NOTHING that came out on Virtual Console today? It was probably because they had to make room for all the other NOTHING they put up on the eShop.
I gotta go against you on this one, Neal.Hey did everyone enjoy the NOTHING that came out on Virtual Console today? It was probably because they had to make room for all the other NOTHING they put up on the eShop.
Well, to be fair, there was something. It just was unappealing (DSiWare bullshit, awful soccer game) or a demo of a game every person in North America should have already bought.
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I gotta go against you on this one, Neal.
Downloaded Mutant Mudds demo, played a fair bit of it, decided it was too bland and boring, put it away, and won't ever play it again.
You'll probably say, "Your loss," but it's just not that enjoyable of a game for me. Didn't like it at all. So, as TrueNerd said above, there was absolutely NOTHING worth playing/enjoying today on both the eShop or Wii VC.
Hey, Nintendo... WHERE'S TERRANIGMA?
