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Virtual Console Makes Nintendo $33 Million To Date

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  • Namesbond, on 11/29/2007, -2/+78We need Goldeneye and 1080.
    • jstroh, on 11/29/2007, -2/+3Like yesterday.
    • NikoK, on 11/29/2007, -2/+9Goldeneye would be so amazing! The classic controllers dual analog stick usage would make it the ultimate FPS to date IMO.

      But Better yet they should re release 007 goldeneye as a wii game with updated graphics :D (no changes in game though)
      • honeymustardn, on 11/29/2007, -8/+2You wouldn't be able to use dual analogue sticks... Goldeneye uses an auto aim.
        • NikoK, on 11/29/2007, -1/+3its called turning auto aim off...if you played this game the entire time with auto aim on...you = phail

          license to kill would be pointless
        • Supernova36, on 11/29/2007, -1/+4So does Halo 3 and I'm pretty sure that has dual analogue..
    • chrisinsocalif, on 11/29/2007, -2/+17You will never see Goldeneye on a Wii since the company that made the game (RARE) was bought out by Microsoft which I am sure MS doesn't want to released games to a console that is competing with their Xbox360.
      • chronichyjinx, on 11/29/2007, -7/+3We won't see RC Pro AM either thanks to M$
        • mem2, on 11/29/2007, -1/+4cry all you want guys but nintendo started the whole restrict licensing of games to 1 console with the nes. So if microsoft decide to hold back on them, meh.
          • chronichyjinx, on 11/29/2007, -3/+1I'm not crying, I got the rom to play on everything else. Just stating facts.
          • TotalHalibut, on 11/30/2007, -0/+2It ceased to become factual and became whine when you started using oh so cool terms like 'M$'
      • Sk8SkaNJ, on 11/29/2007, -0/+5I've sort of just expected to never see another good James Bond game released at this point.
      • exomni, on 11/29/2007, -3/+4MS has released games on Nintendo consoles before.

        But personally I'd MUCH MUCH MUCH rather see Goldeneye redone on the 360 with online play and hi-def and acheivements than some stupid overpirced bare-bones emulation of it on the Wii.
    • jayfarer, on 11/29/2007, -1/+12Goldeneye isn't going to happen, what with the mess with Rare & the James Bond franchise licensed to EA.
      • Supernova36, on 11/29/2007, -0/+6Actually Activision have it at the moment..
    • snoutspout, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1omg... cant stop this feeling...
      yeah definitely
    • paulajohnw, on 11/29/2007, -0/+10SSB 64
      • triblinator, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3They'll put it on there just before Brawl comes out like they've done with other big franchises.
      • ircgoliath, on 11/29/2007, -0/+9* Legend of Zelda VC the same week as Twilight Princess
        * Super Metroid VC a week before Metroid Prime 3
        * Super Mario Bros. 3 VS a week before Super Mario Galaxy

        It seems like Nintendo is making a trend of releasing a Virtual Console intellectual property right around the time that a new Wii game with the same intellectual property is released. So if that's true, we should see see Super Smash Bros. on the VC a week before Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

        OR maybe we'll see SSB next week since that was SSBB's original release date.
    • Shaflugi, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1I'd like to see Banjo Kazooie, personally.
  • daftfunk1, on 11/29/2007, -19/+8Not as bad as we need Yoshi's Island and Pokemon Snap.
    • razmig, on 11/29/2007, -3/+13...really?
      • bloaded, on 11/29/2007, -2/+7aahh Pokemon Snap....very underrated game and looked over simply because of the involvement of pokemon. a little bit short but worth the 10 bucks i say.
    • SteveMax, on 11/29/2007, -1/+7Yoshi's Island (AKA Super Mario World 2) is a fantastic game. Possibly the best graphics on a 16-bit console, innovative gameplay, challenging, an extremely irritating baby Mario you will want to kill at some points even if it costs you a continue...
      • EllimistX, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2I definitely agree, but since it came late in the SNES's life, a lot of people never tried it out. 100% was a challenge...
    • raublekick, on 11/29/2007, -2/+3dunno why you're getting modded down, Yoshi's Island is great and Pokemon Snap really surprised me. I really don't have any interest in Pokemon, but for some reason I loved Snap.
  • Adonai, on 11/29/2007, -1/+43More like Chrono Trigger and Earthbound... though things like the real Super Mario 2 ("Lost Levels") and "Sin and Punishment" have been welcomed additions. Also, Nintendo, could you offer me some way to download these games to my DS to play on the go? That would be awesome.
    • aznedy, on 12/05/2007, -0/+1There's a lot of good SNES RPG's that I would be more than willing to pay $8 for. I don't think Nintendo will extend the Virtual Console service to a handheld until the next generation of the DS. For now if you want SNES games on the DS, get a R4.
  • mywhitenoise, on 11/29/2007, -5/+38damn, I guess we'll be stuck at paying $5 for an NES game, and $8 for an SNES one for a long time.
    • KingGoonie, on 11/29/2007, -1/+11I actually don't mine that for the most part, since the only games I download are the ones I reaaaaaaaaaaally have been itching to play again in years (yea yea emulation, whatever). So while the price overall should be dropped, its not to bad for those games that Ive been waiting to play again for years.

      Though for some reason the N64 games at $10 really irks me lol... only 2 dollars more then the SNES games, but for some reason thats a world of difference to me. Maybe because so far those releases have been few and far between and all games I already own and still have a N64.

      And that certain games vary from the set price really annoys me... Sin & Punishment for instance. I don't care if it was never released in USA... its a N64 game, N64 games are $10, this should be $10... unless your going to release games for CHEAPER then the norm as well.

      Plus they should give out freebies every now and then. Last year I think super mario bros came out on Christmas Day. How about making it a Christmas gift... free download of that game if you download it that day.
      • iofthestorm, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Yeah, a free gift game would actually get me to buy others, maybe. Right now I'm thinking of buying OoT and Starfox 64 but I'm probably not going to for some time.
    • ekin09, on 11/29/2007, -0/+5Maybe, they are unsure if they are good numbers or not... Nintendo is still rather new to the Online Marketplace, I am sure prices will fluctuate.
  • harreola, on 11/29/2007, -1/+52Super Mario RPG
    • zeromancer, on 11/29/2007, -7/+2that would be the sickest game ever. and probably cause me to fail school. a lot.
    • gmprunner, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Longest. Game. Ever.

      Either that, or I just suck and had to redo a lot of parts, which is very possible.
      • Shaflugi, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1That game could be beaten in a day.
  • Wiinii, on 11/29/2007, -8/+4And it looks like that's not money still, some games are starting to require the VC controller (no GameCube controller support):
    http://digg.com/nintendo_wii/Geometry_Wars_Galaxie ...
    • Wiinii, on 11/29/2007, -3/+1*not ENOUGH money*
    • macweirdo42, on 11/29/2007, -1/+4Only a ripoff if you don't ever plan on buying any SNES games from the VC. Don't get me wrong, that's totally lame if you don't, but if you do, I think it's best just to suck it up and get the VC controller anyway, because trying to play SNES games with a Gamecube controller is a bitch.
      • treed, on 11/29/2007, -1/+3You can buy NES->GC and SNES->GC adapters.
        • macweirdo42, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Ah, I hadn't thought about that. I don't know how many people have those, but okay, so it's a ripoff only if you don't plan on buying SNES games on the VC OR you own one of these adapters.
    • DarkDx, on 11/29/2007, -2/+1Spam
    • SkippyDoorknob, on 11/29/2007, -1/+3Geometry Wars also works with the remote/nunchuk combo. It's just that most reviewers preferred the classic controller option.
    • TotalHalibut, on 11/30/2007, -1/+1Anyone that's played Geometry Wars probably realizes just how terrible it would be to control with a gc controller.
  • bigbadgoat, on 11/29/2007, -2/+55It'd probably be double that if they lowered their prices by a third.
    • Zap2, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Doubt it....they'd sell more games no doubt.....I buy 2000 Wii Points(or 1000 or 3000) and buy the games I can afford with those point....that might be one game or 4 games.....
    • TotalHalibut, on 11/30/2007, -1/+1Based on what facts?
  • smackafiyah, on 11/29/2007, -2/+15Give me GoldenEye or give me death!
    • mattyice11, on 11/29/2007, -0/+7You might end up getting death before you get Bond on VC. You'd need Microsoft and Activision to sign off on it.
      • MethodOne, on 11/30/2007, -0/+0Don't forget MGM and the company that owns the Bond trademarks.
  • Okari, on 11/29/2007, -2/+16Let's celebrate by releasing Everybody's Channel in NA today.
  • daftfunk1, on 11/29/2007, -1/+30What needs to happen is a gameboy channel so we can have super mario land.
  • realwx, on 11/29/2007, -0/+9Sonic & Knuckles (w/ lock-on in Wii)
  • Andy.D, on 11/29/2007, -3/+10Not too surprising... nostalgia is expensive, and so are Nintendop's VC games. I think they would do much better if prices were about 50% less.
    • nbcaffeine, on 11/29/2007, -0/+7Yeah, they might sell TWICE AS MANY!!!
    • opnickc, on 11/29/2007, -0/+5I thought all of the VC games were too expensive, then I got an xbox 360. Good lord! $10 is the low end for marketplace games!
      I think all of these companies need to realize consumers don't like spending so much on something completely intangible that they can't even keep after their consoles break/gets replaced/whatever.
    • Shaflugi, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1I doubt they'd sell a whole lot more. People would just keep buying the same amount of 20 dollar cards that they always do, and just get double the games for it.
  • KingGoonie, on 11/29/2007, -5/+1Here is a question. Since when in the hell can't you select the frogs in single player double dribble? Could have sworn back in the day I wasn't playing a buddy 100% of the time... and the frogs were my team... odd...
    • opnickc, on 11/29/2007, -0/+5You sound like the person who says they always used to play FZero multiplayer, even though FZero never had multiplayer.
      Memories can be more deceiving than you'd expect. Let this be a wakeup call.
      • Matt2k, on 11/29/2007, -0/+4Funny you say that. When I was a kid, I must have had some surreal dream about playing F-Zero multiplayer because I ended up spending about a half hour trying to do it again one afternoon. I even called Nintendo to confirm it was single player only. _I was so sure I had done it_
      • KingGoonie, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1But my favorite team was the frogs, every knew that, my frigging friends still know that 2 decades or so later... I don't recall ever picking another team, which on the VC version you have to do.
  • macweirdo42, on 11/29/2007, -2/+3Oh, if only they'd release Goldeneye. Right now, I'm torn on the issue of whether or not I should take my old game systems with me when I move back up north, or if I should leave them at home. I'd be missing out on the chance to play a few games for both systems if I just took my Wii, but only Goldeneye is major enough to make me actually debate it.
    • droversoul, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3Take them all. Problem solved.
      • macweirdo42, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2It'd save me some space and some hassle, is the thing.
  • KingGoonie, on 11/29/2007, -3/+2My wish list 3... Uniracers, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, and Super Mario RPG. I bummed myself out not once but twice with those... When Paper Mario for N64 came out I thought it was the first mario rpg for a few minutes, then realized no, the first one wasnt a paper mario but simply mario rpg.

    Then when Yoshis story came out... I confused it for a few minutes with yoshis island.

    • greenlight2001, on 11/29/2007, -1/+8My wish list 1... KingGoonie writing a understandable sentence.
      • KingGoonie, on 11/29/2007, -4/+1my wish list #4 Greenlight finish his schooling. What the hell was so non-understandable about that sentence?
        • enicholas, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3It was an incoherent, stream-of-consciousness mess.
      • greenlight2001, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2A: You didn't follow KingGoonie's format, so you suck.
        B: In two years it'll be DR. Greenlight2001 to you, douchebag.
        C: If only half the people who read your comments understand it, you're probably doing something wrong.
        • KingGoonie, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Lol... you hahaha... you think its impressive that in two years it would be DR? AHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH What am I a 22 year old ditzy sorority girl? Please get over yourself, that little title in front of your name means nothing to me. Doesnt mean your king of grammar or smarter or whatever... I'm in a profession in which some years only 3% of people pass the exam. I'm sure plenty of people on here are in fields just as diffucult and challenging... DR... please... I know some stupid ass doctors, trust me. You need to stop acting like all of digg lives in middle America where we all mgiht go "ooooooooooooooooh a doctor, did he just say hes a doctor!"
    • MISDIREK7ED, on 11/29/2007, -1/+1I loved uniracers multi player... it was soo addicting.

      I still don't get why they are "releasing" titles. Why not just make the entire Nintendo back catalog available? Change the interface so it loads faster, or somthing. Guess it just makes too much sense.
  • digitallysick, on 11/29/2007, -12/+3Apparently no 007 for the Virtual Console, so i sold my nintendo wii.
    • Xephyr, on 11/29/2007, -5/+5Wow, your ***** stupid.
      • postalblowfish7, on 11/29/2007, -4/+5no, YOU'RE ***** stupid.
      • digitallysick, on 11/29/2007, -2/+1I'm stupid because some of my fav games are not on the virtual console? The other wii games did not entertain me, and at some points i got tired of moving my wrists and arms around to play the game. Plus, i'm not really into playing a game system thats targeted at a child audience.
    • krd1979, on 11/29/2007, -3/+2Good for you... and good luck finding another one in February when Smash Bros. comes out and you're really wishing you could play the game everyone's talking about and playing.
      • digitallysick, on 11/29/2007, -5/+2I don't play smash brothers because i'm not 10 years old
        • sauvaget, on 11/29/2007, -1/+5ah... ignorance
        • Matt2k, on 11/29/2007, -1/+5You can always tell how old a kid is when they say something like this. IE "Only a X-year old would say something like that" -- Just add 5 years to the age they quote. So that places you at around.. 15. Am I getting close, old man?
  • Xephyr, on 11/29/2007, -1/+1Goldeneye pleaseeee
  • seraph582, on 11/29/2007, -2/+4seriously? LOWER THE PRICES AND IT WOULD BE SO MUCH MORE! Doesn't take a genius to realize this...
  • manstein01, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1I really wish this would move faster, and quicken the release cycle. I understand there are licensing issues, but how hard is it to get rights to a game that companies are currently not making any money on?
  • Bridea, on 11/29/2007, -2/+13BLOGSPAM!

    Original article at IGN: http://wii.ign.com/articles/838/838286p1.html
  • blackhole82, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2And they would sell even more if prices were a little lower as several other people have mentioned.
  • Rothgarr, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2yay?
  • krd1979, on 11/29/2007, -1/+3I must be missing something here 33 / 7.8 = 4.23 Now, don't the games start at $5? So are they not counting the TG16, Genesis, or Neo Geo games in the dollar amount, or does this account for the cut that Sega, Hudson, and other 3rd parties get?
    • ircgoliath, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2The difference is probably from unused Wii points.
  • bc85, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1$33m for 7.8m downloads? $4.23/each on average? With the lowest games at $5 and some games over $10? Are some regions cheaper?
    • KingGoonie, on 11/29/2007, -1/+1maybe there only counting the profit they make? So third party VC games they aren't counting as $5 (I assume the first party ones its basically 100% profit cause really.... what would the expenses be on 20 year old games)
    • Shawn4168, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Maybe the $33 million only refers to points sold directly through the Wii interface, and doesn't account for the points sold on those prepaid cards in the stores?
    • felkor, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1I think the answer's pretty straight forward - it says 7.8 million downloads, not purchases. Some people may have downloaded the same game multiple times, but of course only purchased once.
  • ravens32681, on 11/29/2007, -2/+3It looks like Shining Force 2 is slated for release on VC. It's a good thing too because SF2 is probably the second best RPG ever behind Lunar: The Silver Star. What we need is all those Simpsons games to come out on VC. Yes, most of them are bad but still it would be fun to play them, and Bart's Nightmare is a great game. Probably the best Simpsons game ever after The arcade game and Hit and Run.
  • enclaved, on 11/29/2007, -0/+124 dollars of that is mine and unused. It's going to take an extremely compelling game for me to spend another 10 dollars to use that. I would like to buy points in 100 unit increments so I don't have to play 'If I buy this game I'll have 700 points left and I could either get that stupid game for that system I never heard of when it was new or I can spend 500 and get that NES Baseball I've been longing for and lose 2 bucks until I have to repeat this whole dance again"
    • KingGoonie, on 11/29/2007, -3/+1damn skippy. Most annoying thing is those increments.
  • shellnet, on 11/29/2007, -1/+5I downloaded Donkey Kong Country(still fun) and Zelda: Ocarina of Time (one of the best games EVER!)
  • NathanielJ, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2How about people link to the original IGN article, rather than posting the same content on a crappy ad-filled blog and then saying "Via IGN" with a link at the bottom?
  • AshamedAmerican, on 11/29/2007, -2/+6I miss Pilotwings 64, they need to VC that too.
  • sherpa88, on 11/29/2007, -5/+2wii-sus Christ!
  • Koushiro, on 11/29/2007, -2/+2Go Nintendo.
  • grodrigu, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3Where's the original Contra, and bring back the Ultimate Cheat Code. 30 lives for all.
  • bravoland, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2I play more VC on my Wii than the New Games. This does raise one question for down the road though. When the Next Gen Nintendo comes out in another 4 or 5 years what is going to be the distribution model for all these classic games? Are we all going to pay for the same games to be downloaded to the new Console? Will they go ahead and release all the games on that system in a subscription based scheme? Food for Thought.
    • Exhaust, on 11/29/2007, -1/+3They'll probably expect everyone to pay for them all over again. So you bought it for $40 back in the day then $10 for Wii VC? Too bad that'll be another $10 to play it on Wii 2.
      • fognozzle, on 11/29/2007, -1/+1Well, theoretically your Wii 1 will still work. Just plug it in?
        • Okari, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1You could just plug in your NES, SNES, and your N64 as well.
          • macweirdo42, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1Well yeah, but the whole point of the VC is to play games that you don't own. Or am I the only one who missed out on a lot of these the first time around? Heck, I don't even own an SNES.
      • zeebo, on 11/29/2007, -1/+2I kind of doubt that, already the VC games aren't tied to the Wii itself but rather to some kind of customer ID. Its almost certain that the next destination for the VC isn't a new console, but the next handheld, or possibly even an official DS SD card reader.
  • Familyguykiller, on 11/29/2007, -1/+4So 33million in the bank for doing well not much at all....They should lower the prices to about 3 for news and 5 for snes and 7 for n64 but they wont that what keeps me from buying lots of them.
  • Ignitedude, on 11/29/2007, -0/+3jstroh stop spamming Digg with your site. Thanks.
  • blatantninja, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2This is one of the best decisions made by a game company to date. Pure profit. practically no cost.
    • popfrogs, on 11/29/2007, -1/+5Well this is right up Nintendo's alley. They've been recycling games for decades now.
      • macweirdo42, on 11/30/2007, -0/+1I hear they're still making money off of Casablanca, too. What a crime.
  • gthyb, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1I think the prices are still way too high for games I already own. And you could consider me a fanboy.
    • macweirdo42, on 11/30/2007, -1/+1Why would you even want to buy games you already own? Buy games you don't own.
  • Push2Flush, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2We need Super Smash Bros. (N64) now to hold us off till Brawl comes out.
  • 2000, on 11/29/2007, -3/+1About 15 of those 7,800,000 downloads and about $100 of those $33,000,000 are all me (and wifey)!
  • Ub3rg33k, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2Am I alone in wishing they'd release Tetris Attacks for the VC?
  • bravoland, on 11/29/2007, -0/+0Still Waiting for Dr. Mario
    • freetyme, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2Wait for the re (wii?) make for Wiiware with online play
  • BabyWookie, on 11/29/2007, -2/+4Do they have some kind of optional anti-alising/smoothing for the games yet? I haven't checked in the while. The games looked like pixely ass on my HDTV without it. I'm playing Castlevania: SOTN on my PS3 right now and the smoothing really helps. Should be a standard feature.
    • popfrogs, on 11/29/2007, -4/+1Dude, it's the Wii. The PS2 gives it a run for the money in the graphics department.
    • BabyWookie, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1BTW, just to clerify, I am talking about VC games here.
  • XFi6, on 11/29/2007, -4/+2Shows how many people are wasting their money on the Virtual Console when they could have used an emulator for better graphics, a better controller, and of course for free.
    • fognozzle, on 11/29/2007, -0/+4F that, I play my original NES. That's the best controller.
    • ri59, on 11/29/2007, -0/+4You'll realize once you get past puberty that being "free" is not always as it seems.
  • zubi, on 11/29/2007, -1/+1***** them for that.
  • JapaneseEconomy, on 11/29/2007, -0/+2C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!! We really need Killer Instinct, with newly re-rendered sprites at 640x480 instead of the paltry 320x240 it was originally at. That and online multiplayer functionality in the game.
  • spiritamx79, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Nintendo would get more money (at least from me) if they would allow me to play VC games off an HDD, or off my SD card. I'm running out of space!!!
  • Chritto, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1I think they put in the virtual console because it's a big selling point.. the fact that they can make some money from it as well is pretty awesome. Good job nintendo!
  • RaysFire, on 11/29/2007, -0/+0This is just a thought, but I think Nintendo might be able to make a little more money if they were to make specific controllers for each of the different console games they release. There would be a double positive on that, Nintendo gets money from all the controllers, and the hardcore original players would have a feel like the original controller that they used to play on.
  • Septimus, on 11/29/2007, -1/+4This is due to ***** all else being worth buying for the system. I play way more VC than anything else on Wii.
  • mattjlew, on 11/30/2007, -2/+0VC ≥ Wii
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