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Is Resident Evil 2 N64 edition too big for the virtual onsoles file size limit? If not, put that game on the list.
Eh...considering the Wii can play the GC version with significantly less video compression issues (and the PS3 has the original game on the PSN), I can't think of many reasons to buy the N64 version of the game now. Besides, give Capcom enough time and I'm sure they'll find a new way to re-sell that game again just as they did RE0 and the REmake.
[A huge list of games that doesn't need to be copied]
If Nintendo wants my money, they are doing a piss poor job of getting it. That is for sure! I mean I find it surprising that they are all about the money but drag their feet to pursue it. The virtual console seems like it would be the perfect play ground for return on investments for Nintendo. For the exception of licensed titles, there is very little to no obstacles to putting games on virtual console and almost pure profit on their part.
I would love to have TMNT: Turtles in Time for both the SNES and arcade and the arcade version of TMNT on virtual console.
I hate to do this, but in Nintendo's defense it's probably not as profitable as we like to think. For one thing, these companies have to pay the ESRB to rate the game. Then add on any licensing fees and the cost of programming and testing the VC version to make sure no new issues occur. Oh, and let's not forget that Nintendo created a pretty horrible online means of selling new titles with the VC store, where new titles pop up on the not-so-front-page for about a week and then are never seen again. So unless you have a pretty big AAA VC title on your hands, it's probably not going to get noticed let alone sold.
Put these factors together, and I'd be surprised if a great many VC games are as profitable as we'd like to think they are.
They could always allow localization for games outside America and this might help boost releases for a short period. Also, we also have Mishief Makers if al else fails.
Stop trying to bring logic into this. We're talking about Nintendo and the Virtual Console, where movements are more easily predicted by consulting the position of the stars and the phases of the moon.
I also imagine that Nintendo will allow you to use internal HDD, but you, the consumer, muxt provide your own hard drive because Nintendo will not put forth the money to manufacture them. On the bottom of the wii there will be a port where you unscrew a cover and place a 2.5 inch hard drive into the console to boost its memory storage.
I don't see this happening. No matter how easy you make it (and, based on my recent upgrade of my MacBook Pro's internal drive, you can make it pretty damned easy), Nintendo's not going to like the idea of people opening up the system and swapping stuff out, especially with the much simpler and less prone to error solution of USB drives.
You guys are just deluding yourselves with thoughts of a comprehensive online store with feed updates and digitally distributed movies. This is Nintendo we're talking about, in conjunction with the movie industry. Both of these parties historically prefer physical media for the (appearance of) stronger anti-piracy. I only see digital distribution of movies happening if Ninty teams up with Netflix. I give it an 80% chance movies are only distributed on 3DS cards, at least initially.
Hard drive installs, like you can do on the 360, can pretty much get rid of load times, and with the ever-increasing size of console hard drives they're becoming more feasible on a large scale. The only downside, and it's fairly significant, is how long it takes to do. You only have to do it once, but it can be pretty annoying to wait for it to happen.
I think a big part of UMD's demise as a move format was that it would usually be more expensive than the DVD versions while also usually lacking most of the special features.
Those same problems would almost certainly apply to cartridge-based 3DS movies as well. The physical medium has less storage and is more expensive than discs.
The same thing was true with the N64 and the PlayStation. The extra space on the CDs was only necessary for full motion video and higher quality audio. Everything else could easily fit on an N64 cartridge. The real issue was the cost, not the space constraints.Technically the N64 could do FMV, it just needed to be heavily compressed. I don't think it's an apt comparison. There was a lot that couldn't be done within 8MB, and what could be done required a lot more work. Looking at the XBox 360, it doesn't seem like there is anything that is being constrained due to needing more space.
No, on the 360 when a developer runs out of space, they just continue the game on a second disc.
*eyes his copies of Mass Effect 2, Last Remnant, and Lost Odyssey.*
That does remind me of something though: it's probably because we haven't seen much RPG support, but I'm kind of surprised we haven't seen any multi-disc games on the Wii (not even when NISA released Sakura Wars 5 several months ago, despite releasing two discs on the PS2 with multiple languages).
This might sound like a dumb question, but if most 360 games do not take up more than 9 GB of disc space, can the wii play 360 games with HD stripped off?
Depends on how the game is coded. If it's a game where performance improves greatly by installing the game to the HDD, no the Wii certainly wouldn't handle the game as well. Provided your typical game has SD and HD resolution textures/etc. on the disc already to deal with people playing with SD TVs, sure the Wii could probably handle a disc with just the SD content and the necessary coding changes to make it Wii-compatible. Space and lack of support for HD textures is far from the Wii's only technical issues handling 360 ports, though. The hardware is just fundamentally different. Just see the Dead Rising Wii port for an example of where this can be problematic: very few zombies anywhere compared to the mobs of them on the 360.
The only way to even come close to using the full 50 GB is to load it up with all kinds of uncompressed video. Also, some PS3 games fill more space by writing some game data to the disc in multiple places in order to cut down on the longer loading times caused by using Blu-ray discs.I understand now, but I look at all the major titles for the PS360 and think "Damn, there is no way that these games are smaller than 20 GB!"
Only a handful of 360 games use more than one disc, which means only a handful of 360 games take up more than 9 GB.
