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- Itazura, on 10/12/2007, -4/+140I don't see how Santa is competition since you don't have to pay him five dollars for each present.
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -21/+89It's the original NES Mario Bros, right? Why, for the love of God, would a TWENTY YEAR OLD game cost $5 to download? They should really start bundling those VC games for people to get their money's worth.
- bookishboy, on 10/12/2007, -24/+86A Christmas present is not something that I have to pay for.
And a game from 1985, isn't worth $5.00, which is why it's available on so many ROM sites for free.
***** you, Nintendo. - JeffH, on 10/12/2007, -6/+471. Release a good game
2. Get people hooked and ready to buy it over and over while you port it to every new console you make
3. ???
4. PROFIT - SkippyDoorknob, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41It's the original NES Super Mario Bros.
The original NES Mario Bros. is already available. - happygiraffe88, on 10/12/2007, -5/+40Agreed...if someone told me they paid $5 for this at a yard sale I'd call them an idiot. Yet somehow Nintendo has people lining up for it.
This game is on half.com right now for 75 cents...AND it comes with Duck Hunt on the same cartridge. - pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -4/+36I want the one that came with Mario All Stars! Humph!
- megashaun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30We were all thinking it would be free. The surprise is we have to pay for it!
I already have 4 copies of SMB/Duck hunt that I use as coasters. - SkippyDoorknob, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26I guses this squashes the rumors that they will be free... oh well...
- ibeetle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Yea, but you have to leave him $5.00 in cookies and milk. And that bites because those girl scouts make some damn good cookies.
Oh and do not forget about carrots for his reindeer. Do not leave corn. It gives them gas. Santa does not like that. Would you want to be behind 8 deer with gas? - LordofChaosIori, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25Bah, they actually never said gift/present... they said surprise... unless someone would like to prove me wrong?
- dmason, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27I love the Wii, but I wish there were a $15/month subscription plan for classic games.
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -6/+24Should Pink Floyd CDs be cheaper because they're 30 years old?
- Jussles, on 10/12/2007, -7/+25You know, at first I thought VC games were really going to be great, but this is just ridiculous. $5 for something that old? No thanks.
- wisegrape, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Why is R-TYPE for TurboGrafx16 800 Wii Points.
Is this a mistake or are the prices for TurboGrafx games going up? - Pundan, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19@sam10685
Maybe that's because you're poor, because you keep all your money stashed on the floor of your room?
Anyway, I'm not against Nintendo re-selling the games over and over again I just think $5 is a lot of money for a game you not even get "in real life". I collect NES games, and I would pay more than $5 for a mint version of the game. Nintendo should bundle all their games and sell them cheaper, it's not like they haven't profited on Super Mario Bros earlier on.. - Alegis, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Profits!
- pumacub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I'm starting to agree with you. When I heard about the VC I thought of...
Super Mario All Stars
A Link to the Past
Super Metroid
Super Mario World (1 and 2)
Etc...
The games they've released so far suck and are overpriced. - pulpjedi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14If Nintendo wants people to buy VC games, they should throw us a bone. Super Mario Bros would have been a great free-download for Xmas. In fact, I think it should have shipped with the system.
- Cyber_Akuma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15So..... our Christmas surprise is them releasing a couple of VC games on a Monday just like they have done every week since launch with no reduced prices or special features or anything extra?
Excuse me if im not surprised... - AlexMax, on 10/12/2007, -6/+19@ilyag
I am willing to pay Nintendo 5 bucks for a legit copy of Super Mario Bros that I can play on my TV. I never had an NES, and I don't feel like playing ebay roulette with systems and carts. Yeah, I've played it a ton in various emulators, but I've never legitimately paid for it, and emulators aren't as nice because it's so easy to cheat with them with savestates.
Also, consider harder to find games. Or hell, even harder to find consoles. Who here owned a TurboGrafx 16 when they were young? Or had an legit copy of Gunstar Heroes? Assuming I'm not playing an emulated copy, It's a lot easier to make a snap decision to pay a one time fee of five bucks to have a downloadable copy sent to my Wii than go through the effort of getting the console and/or the game on ebay. Call me lazy, but downloadable game services like Steam have sold me and many other people on games that we would normally not buy in the first place. It works, and it's the future of buying games.
And for the people who are screaming about the prices and how they should be sold for X amount of money, quiet *****. Nintendo has people who have dedicated their careers to economics and marketing that did research and came to a consensus, balancing what people would be willing to pay for a game with trying to make the whole endeavor profitable. You don't have the data or qualifications to back up your price suggestions, so go back to your emulators and goodrom sets, because Nintendo trying to turn a profit on their games is clearly terrible, right? - kmacleod, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17dugg from a Wii, with the new Opera browser... Seems to work!
- Shorties, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13IMO this is how the pricing should be:
$.99 NES
$5.00 SNES
$10.00 N64 - wastern, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13NES games should only be $1, like songs from iTunes. N64 games should be $7, the other should be in between that
The games are already made and they have already made their money. I already had a Nintendo with Super Mario back n the 80s, I paid for the game once already
I hope it at least comes with the old Duck Hunt - Cyber_Akuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Xbox Arcade games are different.
1. You can demo them.
2. They added achievements and sometimes other extras.
3. Theres online play (hello Nintendo, you hearing this?).
4. These are ARCADE games which have been reworked to hell with extra features while also keeping the entire original game intact yet most cost less than the cheapest VC game. - teresagirl, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Considering the retail value of Super Mario 1 is about 99 cents, in which you get an actual hard copy, it is way too expensive. Digital content should be cheaper not more expensive. Of course, I refuse to pay money for things I will not actually own physical copies of, but lots of people feel differently.
Also, I will not pay again for digital copies of things I already DO own physical copies of. - jeffness, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13I worked for an employer that sold digital information online for a fee. Online pricing of digital information or downloads is a difficult arguement to get into. I always advocated a lower price because I felt that increased volume would more than make up for the lost revenue, but heres what happens.
business: "Hey let's offer information online for a fee. Let's start it out at $XX because we dont know what we are doing with pricing and we don't want to start out too low and we can lower it later if we're doing well enough"
business: "Holy ***** we're making alot of money off this woo hoo!"
employee: "Guys, people complain all day about how much we're charging, I think we charge too much and we should lower prices and encourage volume"
business: "***** you guy, we're making money, I don't care what you have to deal with all day or the feedback you receive, we're not lowering prices because I'm mr greedypants and I don't want to touch it"
a business does not see the revenue they lose from prices being too high and unfortunately it's difficult to convince them to change pricing structures if it is atleast already profitable - 404notfound, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Let's assume the Wii will have a lifespan of 5 years. There are approximately 52 Mondays (the day they release new VC stuff) in a year, so that comes out to about 260 Mondays. On average there've been about 4 games released a week, so that's 1040 games. I don't know exactly how large the library of games is, but that's a lot of games.
How many of them do you think are as great as Link to the Past or Super Metroid? I would say there are about 50 truly awesome titles out of all of that, and I think I'm being pretty generous.
Can you imagine what would happen if all the best games just got released first, and the lesser titles came afterward? Everybody would buy the best ones and ignore the rest. With 50 really awesome titles out of about 1040 (assuming they keep releasing them at the same rate), that would mean about 1000 games going unnoticed.
So yes, they're holding back on the good ones, possibly waiting for a drought in Wii releases. Is it greedy? Kind of. But that's marketing.
(By the way, take my numbers with a grain of salt; they're there for the sake of argument) - CaptJackSparrow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8They should have offered 5 NES games (including SMB) for 500 points as a Christmas surprise.
Right now, it is more like a gift for themselves. It is not like something they would have not done otherwise anyway (so no extra effort/surprise there). SMB was probably one of the first ones to be ported and all NES titles are 500 points so it was only a matter of timing. They may as well call all games a "surprise". Every Monday, new surprises. Come on Nintendo, you can do better. Give a gift to your loyal customers. And we were not expecting a lot, most of us have already spent money on these. - vhold, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14"And a game from 1985, isn't worth $5.00, which is why it's available on so many ROM sites for free."
That's some mighty fine logic. The fact that something is available illegally for free makes it not worth $5.. way to encourage Nintendo to start seriously cracking down on rom sites.
I agree it isn't worth $5, but it's certainly not for that reason. - prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Where are you finding a retail SMB cart for 99 cents? Even on ebay it goes for about $10.
- pokemogu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11Well, sure Nintendo is not expecting for criminals who "freely" download games to pay any proper cost.
- ydt89, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8That sucks i was hoping it would be free as a gift just for that day :(
- Ddeccard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Is it really 100 points/USD?
*****. I'm paying one euro for that. According todays exchange rates I should get 132 points. And europe gets shafted once again. - sonictonic, on 10/12/2007, -11/+17I know I'll get dugg down for this but I think the majority of you guys are whining cheap-skates. ;)
- rushoffailure, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Hm. Where do I plug it into my Wii?
- rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I'd go for
$1 for NES
$3.50 (tops) for SNES
$7 for N64 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7these 'classics', perhaps 99% of them, are classics for a reason
- wingnut21, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Nintendo, you're doing a lot right, but you're getting this wrong. 5 bucks? That's ridiculous.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8What's your number?
- coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9That's a horrible comparison and you know it. No matter how "classic" original NES games were, up until SNES, you could only get a limited amount of gameplay out of just about anything. Unfortunately, the original Super Mario Brothers falls into this category.
It was groundbreaking at it's time, it played a lot longer than other games - but it's still not worth $5 when compared to what you could get for the same amount or free today.
Music hasn't changed in that way. If anything, Pink Floyd carries MORE quality than the ***** they're putting out today. I can't honestly say that about the original Super Mario Brothers.
Just to reiterate, I'm not complaining about a $5 price for just any Virtual console game. I could see FF3/6 being worth that, but definitely not anything on the NES. Maybe $2.50 or something. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If you were one of the idiots posting one of the 1000 links over the past day or two, claiming it was gonna be free, please, raise your hand to your own foolish behavior.
- Ravenlock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7"A Christmas present is not something that I have to pay for.
And a game from 1985, isn't worth $5.00, which is why it's available on so many ROM sites for free.
***** you, Nintendo."
Yes, it's available on many ROM sites for free. So are all DS games. You're claiming they also have no value because it's possible to pirate them?
You want to complain about them marketing nostalgia, fine - personally, I'm happy to pay a pittance to have great old games, some of which I never played before (like Gunstar Heroes), on my Wii, but you certainly don't have to.
But please don't start the "I can just pirate it, so why would I pay for it?" argument. You can get around paying for lots of things in life by breaking the law. - dime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5GEE YOU SURE SHOWED THEM LOLOLOL!
I'd wager you're the type of cat that wouldn't pay regardless of the pricing scheme... - 404notfound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I don't know why this comment got modded down; it's a valid point.
The TurboGrafx-16 games have all been 600 points so far; and as far as I know, the price for games of a console stays constant no matter how good or bad the game is. Hopefully this is just a typo. - coheedcollapse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You could have put that in a less obnoxious way so that people like me who own the PS3 and aren't total idiots aren't made worse off on the Digg scene than they already are.
Personally I'm still too cheap to drop $6 on a PS1 game since I still own all of my originals and they play fine on the system. - megashaun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Probably because it's the most faithful port of R-Type, thus in some weird way justifying a higher price.
Or it's just an R-Typo. - wo1verine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I don't understand you people, really.
Nintendo is not forcing anyone to purchase this VC title. If you like it, great. If you don't, well then don't.
For the price of what you spend in the morning on coffee and a snack you can play the original SMB. Believe it or not, like it or not, pushing an NES title to the Wii VC has significiant costs for Nintendo. From the actual porting/testing, to support, to bandwidth. I'm not sure why everyone believes this costs Nintendo nothing, come in to the real world.
I for one will be purchasing this Christmas day. If you want to find a 99c cart though, and blow in it before you play on another system, feel free. - rlg420, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9ibeetle, I applaud you for using the proper pluralization of deer. *nerdie grammar high five*
Oh and by the way, I have played Super MB waaaay too many times to pay another $5 to play it. Maybe if they update the visuals or something along those lines. - strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7$5 or $8 for an old game is an absolute rip off. F'en ridiculous.
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