Three titles announced for North America, with one substitution for Europe.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/26497
Following the launch of the eShop, upcoming titles for the North American Virtual Console are set to include Super Mario Land, Alleyway, and Radar Mission. The European Virtual Console list differs slightly with Super Mario Land, Alleyway, and Tennis set to be available at launch. Pricing is still unknown.
This follows the news that 10 eShop downloads will appear on the Japanese service. The Virtual Console selection for Japan has five completely different games, as well as Super Mario Land, the only game coming to every region.
As we revealed earlier this week, Excitebike will be free to download from the eShop following the system update. Nintendo's announcement today confirmed that the offer will last until July 7 in North America and Europe.
While we had speculated that Pokédex 3D will use StreetPass for trading the little monsters, it was revealed that AR Markers will allow you to scan the data and display the creatures using the AR Viewer.
As in Japan, the Nintendo 3DS web browser will become available along with the eShop system update.
This isn't meant to be super doom'n'gloom since it is only the first day, but....If memory serves Radar Mission is just Battleship. Which isn't a bad thing. I'm wondering if it was NoA or Capcom's American Branch for the Megaman release.
Man, this sucks compared to the Japan launch. Where's Kirby's Dream Land? Mega Man? Hell, even Avenging Spirit/Phantasm seemed interesting. We get half the amount of VC games, and one of them is freaking Alleyway, which is worthless for nothing more than nostalgia since AlphaBounce exists on DSiWare (for likely a dollar or two more).
Is Radar Mission actually good? Or is that a nostalgia-tinged "was awesome on GB in 1990" game?
If we use Japan as a guideline, then we're looking at $4 or $5 per game.Yeah, but that's setting up the service for failure. Their is no way a GB game should be around an NES game price wise. Same for GBA and SNES.
They haven't even revealed a price and I'm just gonna say preemptively that it's too expensive.
They haven't even revealed a price and I'm just gonna say preemptively that it's too expensive.
Thanks Ian
If we use Japan as a guideline, then we're looking at $4 or $5 per game.
....it's too expensive.
I don't see the point of getting breakout or that battleship clone on the GB, because odds are some company will release the same sort of thing as part of some collection of games with far better graphics and far better features. Its not like Battleship or Breakout only existed for the Gameboy, so would anyone want those versions when they will have the worst graphics and features? I think Milton Bradley owns the rights to Battleship, so the thing to do is probably just wait until they bring a native version of it to the 3DS with all the bells and whistles.Until the 3DS Remake. Which I would do the whole series (Mario Land - Wario Land)
Super Mario Land makes sense though because that game only existed on the Gameboy so its not like there's a better version out there.
Looks like its $3.99 for Mario Land and $2.99 for the other two. There's your pricing structure.
"(Nintendo of America director of eShop operations David) Warton said game releases on the eShop start at $1.99 and move up in dollar increments. As of right now, there's no way for companies to create promotional codes as on other services, so don't go wait around for giveaways yet. There will also not be any demos at launch, but Warton said it's not something that won't appear eventually on the eShop."
Looks like its $3.99 for Mario Land and $2.99 for the other two. There's your pricing structure.
....it's too expensive.
Let's just clear the air now. Pokemon is never coming to the Virtual Console. It would cannibalize shares
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_FireRed_and_LeafGreenQuoteLet's just clear the air now. Pokemon is never coming to the Virtual Console. It would cannibalize shares
Why not? It's not like Pokemon Red/Blue is currently available. It would give Nintendo the chance to sell those exact same games yet again. Gold/Silver would be different though since they just remade it.
It would be interesting to see how the many editions of Street Fighter II or the Wonder Boy games did.From a Quick search and these are just the Sub-Title Changes one not the different platforms.
The $x.99 pricing is going to bug the you-know-what out of me.
Honestly in this day and age down with the .99 and up with the $1. Also the .009 on gas is silly as well. Change is barely worth keep anymore hence the round-up with checking. I personally think are economy needs to deflate a bit.The $x.99 pricing is going to bug the you-know-what out of me.Yeah, I know what you mean. You get a points card for say $50 and every time you buy something there's a cent left over that you just can't get rid of.
Yeah, I was reading on some site about the penny and how there's a movement to get rid of it because it costs more to make than what its worth and it actually costs the economy more due to the time it takes to count it and stuff.Sears doesn't buy Dimes because it cost more to get the dimes then it is to just use 2 nickles.
Yeah, I know what you mean. You get a points card for say $50 and every time you buy something there's a cent left over that you just can't get rid of.
Another case of Nintendo ignoring the competition? I think they are pushing sensibilities with the current Virtual Console and 3D Classic prices. I also think it's weird that I'm disappointed over the difference of one or two dollars in pricing.
Regarding pennies, how do you get rid of them when sales tax usually results in goofy cents?
Law makers where lamenting over that in TN lately. Its called a Use Tax if memory serves. Another fun one is if you pay 6% sales tax on something while in another state officially your suppose to pay the other 3.75% to the TN when you come back (Sales Tax is 9.75% in my home county.) Amazon wants to put some distribution centers here and their is another law that if you have servers or anything else that is part of your online business here in TN then you have to do Sales Tax. Amazon will have none of that.QuoteRegarding pennies, how do you get rid of them when sales tax usually results in goofy cents?
That brings up an interesting point. Are we going to get charged sales tax for eShop purchases? Because as it stands now, I don't pay sales tax when I buy Nintendo points through my Wii, though you would obviously pay sales tax if you bought a points card from a brick and mortar. We've got nearly 10% sales tax here in California, so I appreciate the savings (Okay, I know that you're supposed to pay that at the end of the year or something, but seriously, who does that?)
Regarding pennies, how do you get rid of them when sales tax usually results in goofy cents? Unless you like in Oregon nothing is $1.00, it's $1.06 or something goofy like that.
Seriously, folks - the Game and Watch 'ports' on DSiWare are $2 each - did anyone really, really, really think Nintendo was going to sell Game Boy games at that price - or cheaper?Do I think they should? Yes. Did I think they would? No.
