<rant>
I sold all my N64 games and console because some people at Nintendo once said they would make available ALL N64 games on the then "upcoming" Wii console, aka Revolution...
Fast forward almost two years...
Today is Feb. 20th, 2008 and it has been nearly six months since I last purchased a game on the w. To date, less than 20 (maybe less than 14) N64 games have been released and the Wii's product lifecycle has maybe another two good years left to it.
So I ask this question, why in the name of all that is good and holy did I sell all my N64 games and more importantly, who at Nintendo is in charge of which games get released and how often... From a pure "cash to be made" perspective, I feel like Nintendo has really dropped the ball on this one and isn't nearly allowing the Virtual Console to live up to it's potential. Furthermore, I think Reggie Fils-Aime either needs to remove his thumb from his behind or fire his underlings in charge of the Virtual Console department for allowing this much time to pass and only have released a handful of actually decent N64 games.
For that matter, how on earth did the Virtual Console become a dumping ground for the Turbo Grafx 16 system? Ask yourself, and be honest. Of the people you know who owned either the NES or the SNES and are older than say 25 years of age, how many of you actually owned the TGFX 16? How many of your friends did for that matter? On that logic alone, the proportion of these games launched to the US Virtual Console just doesn't make sense... Did you know that the Nintendo has actually released more TGFX 16 games to the Virtual Console than NES games...? Well, did you...
Me personally, I did not purchase Wii points to buy TGFX, Dreamcast, or any other non-Nintendo system games... Again, another opportunity for Nintendo to milk a cash cow but somehow they missed getting a good grip on the udder...
</rant>
This was probably a waste of time. I've been participating in the Nintendo Wii Bitchfest for over a year now and nothing has changed... I've stopped spending cash money to buy Wii points, so don't bother suggesting to me that I do something so seemingly obvious. I have.
I guess right now it just boils down to Nintendo being the Emperor sporting the new clothes.
It is unlikely to change until such time as Wii sales fall substantially and then I'm guessing the VC will be absolutely inundated with the remaining game titles we had all hoped to see by now. One can forsee that sort of thing happening anyway.
Time will tell.
-Jeremy
I sold all my N64 games and console because some people at Nintendo once said they would make available ALL N64 games on the then "upcoming" Wii console, aka Revolution...
Fast forward almost two years...
Today is Feb. 20th, 2008 and it has been nearly six months since I last purchased a game on the w. To date, less than 20 (maybe less than 14) N64 games have been released and the Wii's product lifecycle has maybe another two good years left to it.
So I ask this question, why in the name of all that is good and holy did I sell all my N64 games and more importantly, who at Nintendo is in charge of which games get released and how often... From a pure "cash to be made" perspective, I feel like Nintendo has really dropped the ball on this one and isn't nearly allowing the Virtual Console to live up to it's potential. Furthermore, I think Reggie Fils-Aime either needs to remove his thumb from his behind or fire his underlings in charge of the Virtual Console department for allowing this much time to pass and only have released a handful of actually decent N64 games.
For that matter, how on earth did the Virtual Console become a dumping ground for the Turbo Grafx 16 system? Ask yourself, and be honest. Of the people you know who owned either the NES or the SNES and are older than say 25 years of age, how many of you actually owned the TGFX 16? How many of your friends did for that matter? On that logic alone, the proportion of these games launched to the US Virtual Console just doesn't make sense... Did you know that the Nintendo has actually released more TGFX 16 games to the Virtual Console than NES games...? Well, did you...
Me personally, I did not purchase Wii points to buy TGFX, Dreamcast, or any other non-Nintendo system games... Again, another opportunity for Nintendo to milk a cash cow but somehow they missed getting a good grip on the udder...
</rant>
This was probably a waste of time. I've been participating in the Nintendo Wii Bitchfest for over a year now and nothing has changed... I've stopped spending cash money to buy Wii points, so don't bother suggesting to me that I do something so seemingly obvious. I have.
I guess right now it just boils down to Nintendo being the Emperor sporting the new clothes.
It is unlikely to change until such time as Wii sales fall substantially and then I'm guessing the VC will be absolutely inundated with the remaining game titles we had all hoped to see by now. One can forsee that sort of thing happening anyway.
Time will tell.
-Jeremy
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