"What're you buyin'? What're you sellin'?"
Following its European release in October, Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition will be shooting up North American Virtual Console this week.
The 2007 re-release includes all of the content from the 2005 PlayStation 2 port of the most infamous member of the Capcom 5, in addition to supporting pointer controls for aiming. The game will launch at standard Wii download pricing: $19.99 US, $24.99 Canadian.
Great game, and still worth the asking price in many ways... but a curious release given how cheap and easily available the Wii disc still is. The pricing for RE4 is even worse than Zack & Wiki in this regard.
Why are you again saying Zack & Wiki is cheap to find? Physical copies of the games are usually at LEAST $45. So the best option to getting the game is the eShop version because it will be less than half of what you would have to pay for a physical copy. One of the reasons Zack & Wiki is so expensive is because it's pretty rare (it bombed in sales).
The pricing for RE4 is even worse than Zack & Wiki in this regard.Not if you can find them at GameStop. The price for Zack and Wiki is now $4.96, though it was $2.99 before it came out on the VC. RE 4 Wii is $9.99.
I still don't know why Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn isn't on there yet. They've got to put it up there when Fates comes out. We're talking about a Wii game that Gamestop charges, like over $50 used. Without the box or manual. And still, no Gamestop within my state has it in stock.
They won't do Xenoblade because that will cannibalize sales of the 3D version. I don't think it's been stellar, but if the NX portable is backwards compatible, it might sell to people who skipped the new 3DS in NA. The other "rainfall" games might get released though.