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| What should we do with the drunken sailor (VC)? |
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Toups
tyranically banal
Joined: 03 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:20 am |
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| Nintendo continuously made proclamations that the Wii would house every game created by man, |
I don't ever recall this happening. The only quote I've seen that might be interpreted this way is that the VC would be "backwards compatible all the way to the NES" (paraphrasing, obviously). Immediately people assumed that this meant that every NES and SNES game would be available at launch -- and immediately again more level-headed people countered by saying that it's far more likely that they'd release a few at a time, much like they are doing now. People also were assuming (very briefly) that the games would be available for download for FREE, which was pretty widespread until a Nintendo rep had to make an official statement denying that.
The moral here is that it seems like people are just willing to jump to ridiculous conclusions. The VC has more or less met my expectations, but that's only because they've been rather low to began with. This being said the only major complaint I have about it is the way your games are tied to the physical console. And this is something that they could conceivably change quite easily in the future. I expect them to do so, especially if they release a revision of the wii which has DVD playback.
The VC is pretty good though. It's offered a satisfying mix of classics and obscure games that I never got to play the first time around, so I think it's serving its purpose pretty well to be honest.
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Toups
tyranically banal
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:31 pm |
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| Well, Toups, if the games weren't tied to the console, they would open the VC to rampant piracy. It's not a nice thing, but I understand the decision. |
This isn't really true. It's already possible to tie your VC account to your mynintendo.com account, which is attached to an email address. If they were to revamp mynintendo.com profiles to include your credit card info and force you to tie it to your wii's virtual console then it could be easily transferrable. This is exactly what Microsoft does with Xbox Live Arcade, btw.
Worst comes to worse they could at least implement a system where you give them your wii's serial number and/or mac address and they remove the games from that wii and give you a voucher for an equivalent amount.
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Toups
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| Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:43 pm |
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That was over 2 years ago. And we've known since E3 this year that it would work this way.
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Toups
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| Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 8:09 am |
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| Dark Age Iron Savior wrote: |
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| Also, I think the GCN backwards compatibility does give the Wii a fairly large line-up at launch, |
Do you grant the same to the PS3? |
From what I hear the PS3 has some really bad compatibility problems with certain PS2 and PSx games, in addition to the fact that they upscale like shit.
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