Nintendo will probably just start over and want us to buy all those VC games over again and the Wii service will eventually disappear entirely and if you're old Wii goes kaput, too bad, you can't get those games back. There shouldn't be a Wii U Virtual Console, it should just be a Virtual Console that is shared between the Wii and Wii U. I just hope that Wii U Virtual Console is not as dreadful as the one we have now, but if the 3DS is indicative of what we might get then I am not hopeful. Actually, the Virtual Console is on track to start losing more games than it is taking in right now. I am still waiting for Castlevania: Bloodlines and Contra Hard Corps. While I appreciate it when good games are released, I absolutely don't count on anything because more often than not that leads to disappointment. But the end result is the same: there is very limited communication, no release dates set in advance, and a totally erratic release schedule for digital downloads on the 3DS. This is just speculation and I don't really have anything to back it up outside of an oft-faulty memory and a gut feeling. I consider original 3DS eShop content a different platform than the portable Virtual Console, and I'm not alone in doing so. but I really believe that Nintendo needs to separate the different types of releases and aim to provide regular releases across all three platforms. Maybe this is due to limited resources handling the digital releases, or maybe they just don't want to flood the marketplace. Quality Virtual Console game getting pushed out? Don't expect original eShop content at the same time (or at least not quality content), and vice versa. Big retail game coming out that week? Don't expect much on the digital front. I wonder if Nintendo just wants to avoid competition. Either way, each region has something to complain about, and that sucks. Note: You could replace "Virtual Console" with "3DS original games" and make the same complaints for Europe, since they're still waiting for VVVVVV, Mutant Mudds, Sakura Samurai, and more. Unfortunately, I'll believe it when I see it, especially with the Wii's Virtual Console deterioration in recent memory. Perhaps we're on the cusp of a Virtual Console spring awakening. I hope this is just an anomaly, precipitated by letting the original titles on eShop take center stage. Europe and Japan both have Wario Land, Trip World, Kirby's Block Ball, and Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters, the latter of which didn't even originally come out in Japan! Japan currently has 25 more games available, with new games added nearly every week.Įven worse are the games that North America is missing out on right now. But Wii's Virtual Console decline during the system's life makes this early stumble by the service on 3DS worrisome, especially as Japan and Europe are both surging ahead with more Game Boy games.Ĭurrently, Europe only has had two more Virtual Console releases than North America (Europe is also getting the Game Gear games two weeks later, so it'll be five more soon enough), but Europe is getting Virtual Console games on a regular basis, with at least two Game Boy games a month in addition to an occasional NES or Game Boy Color game. Meanwhile, the Wii has gotten three Virtual Console titles this year, which is earth-shattering after the nearly six-month drought. Right now, we're getting less than three, and it gets even worse if you take into consideration that two of the NES games were part of the September batch of Ambassador games, and the Game Gear titles all came in one week. Since the start of 2012, the 3DS has gotten two Game Boy titles, three NES titles, and three Game Gear titles. Last year, following the eShop launch in June, there were an average of four Virtual Console games released a month. We're nearing the end of the first quarter of 2012, and while it seems like original titles on Nintendo's eShop are coming with regularity and quality, the Virtual Console has started to get cast aside.
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