WiiWare launched today in Japan, as you've no doubt heard. Great for WiiWare ... not so great for the Virtual Console. Nintendo decided that the launch of the new service for original games would be a good time for the VC to take the week off.We're hoping that today's total lack of VC content was intended only to draw attention to the inaugural WiiWare offerings. In other words, there had better be some VC games every week from now on. We won't be pleased if the Virtual Console and WiiWare have to compete for the same release schedules. We're afraid that in the future, on any week a couple of WiiWare games come out, no VC games will.
The cynical retrogamer in us is already thinking of WiiWare as just another excuse to skimp on VC games. We'd love to be wrong.
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3-25-2008 @ 10:49PM
hvnlysoldr said...
Everyone get your tinfoil hats on.
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3-26-2008 @ 6:46AM
Nigeria: Cody ChesnuTT Defense Force said...
The cancer that is killing VC...
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3-26-2008 @ 9:10AM
Mr Khan said...
You're going to have to change the name to Wii Shop Tuesday (and Monday and Friday for NA and PAL) or something, cuz this is probably going to happen again
My guess is you're right, new releases will trump old stuff, but there won't be weekly offerings of new releases, probably a couple a month or something
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3-26-2008 @ 9:11AM
Mr Khan said...
Damndest thing, I said i'd add your Brawl FC, then my DSL cut out the rest of the day
I'll get on that tonight
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3-26-2008 @ 9:12AM
Mr Khan said...
Should've been a reply to hvnlysoldr.
3-26-2008 @ 9:55AM
Jeremy said...
Well I do feel the VC is getting the boot. the closer it has gotten to the release of WiiWare the less releases the VC has seen. I do hope to see more attention towards the VC once the dust settles on the WiiWare.
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3-26-2008 @ 3:01PM
HellsHammer said...
Should have finished that sentence...
"Nintendo decided that the launch of the new service for original games would be a good time for the VC to take the week off." ...From the usual, pathetic, one or two games per week.
Nintendo built VC up sooo much. It's sad to feel like the VC is a joke.
They should have just been honest, VC is an ingenious way to make people pay money for platformers not good enough to have played already...and one-fucking-ton of shmups.
Sorry..I'm all worked up.
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