8th lutz #1 Posted June 2, 2006 http://www.gameinformer.com/NR/exeres/D694...F153CC38809.htm. All that was revealed was with the prices with with the games on the virtual game console will be as low as 500 Yen( $4.50 in United States). Go to the link for the explanation with the demos. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+remowilliams #2 Posted June 2, 2006 DS demos through the unit is cool, I'd like to see that. But with the statement of "as little as $4.50" for VC games, I'm thinking they won't get much business from me in that area... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
8th lutz #3 Posted June 2, 2006 DS demos through the unit is cool, I'd like to see that. But with the statement of "as little as $4.50" for VC games, I'm thinking they won't get much business from me in that area... I was hoping the price would be cheaper so I could buy tg-16 games from ebay with sellers wanting to get a rid of some of their tg-16 collection for the wii and the virrual game console games for the tg-16. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moycon #4 Posted June 2, 2006 So $4.50 is the cheap end..... I wonder what the high end will be. Gonna be a might expensive to load this console up with old ROMs it sounds like. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MCHufnagel #5 Posted June 3, 2006 A $4.50 starting point? I don't understand why games need to be that pricey. You hate to assume, but would that be for 1st party NES games? What about some high demand SNES RPGs like Chrono Trigger? Personally I hoped that games would start at $2.00 and top out at $10.00. But then again this is probably the Japanese price point. The prices in the USA could be lower. But it does look like you will be able to purchase games and not just have them via a monthly fee. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bruce Tomlin #6 Posted June 3, 2006 "Users would wake up each morning, find the LED lamp on their Wii flashing, and know that Nintendo has sent them something. Oh yeah, I know lots of people are going to want to leave their Wii on 7/24 so that they can have something randomly pushed to them overnight. Meanwhile, their consoles slowly burn up because most people wouldn't know how to properly ventilate them in a walk-in freezer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+remowilliams #7 Posted June 3, 2006 "Users would wake up each morning, find the LED lamp on their Wii flashing, and know that Nintendo has sent them something. Oh yeah, I know lots of people are going to want to leave their Wii on 7/24 so that they can have something randomly pushed to them overnight. Meanwhile, their consoles slowly burn up because most people wouldn't know how to properly ventilate them in a walk-in freezer. That's a good point. In addition to the number of people who are already worrying themselves over what Big Brother (i.e. MS/Live) is going to do to them by having their console connected to the internet constantly. Or do people really think that one huge corporation has their "best interests" in mind over another huge corporation? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gregory DG #8 Posted June 3, 2006 Anyone care to speculate what will be the $4.50 priced games? Urban Champion anyone? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NovaXpress #9 Posted June 3, 2006 Why would you people assume that the US price will be equivalent to the Japanese price? Maybe it will be, but there's no reason to assume so. If the US price does push five bucks on the low end, that means that N doesn't really want to sell downloads and it's all about the subscriptions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+remowilliams #10 Posted June 3, 2006 Why would you people assume that the US price will be equivalent to the Japanese price? Maybe it will be, but there's no reason to assume so. True - perhaps they will be taking revenge on the US for the lack of "dating simulation" games on the Xbox in Japan - and they will cost more than $4.50 on the low end! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Malc74 #11 Posted June 4, 2006 Er, he isn't even talking about the retro downloads I don't think... Yet it is possible to create a reasonably entertaining game in 2 months with a team of three. Offering such games for 500 yen over a network could lead to a reasonable number of people purchasing it. No mention made of NES/SNES/N64 or whatever. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n8littlefield #12 Posted June 5, 2006 "Users would wake up each morning, find the LED lamp on their Wii flashing, and know that Nintendo has sent them something. Oh yeah, I know lots of people are going to want to leave their Wii on 7/24 so that they can have something randomly pushed to them overnight. Meanwhile, their consoles slowly burn up because most people wouldn't know how to properly ventilate them in a walk-in freezer. It actually is going to be doing this in it's sleep mode, similar to the sleep mode on a PS2. I think basically unless you kill its main power switch, it will be in this mode (as it does turn on/off from the Wiimote). Given that, I would expect alot of people would actually be affected by this, I know I never switch my PS2 completely off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AtariJr #13 Posted June 5, 2006 yea the wii wont be burning hot like a 360 in full power mode for 15 hours of play.. it will be "off" with basic systems barely running to recieve data from the internet. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pixelboy #14 Posted June 5, 2006 So the Wii will not be equiped with some kind of built-in storage medium, like the Xbox's hard disk? If it did, then downloaded games could be stored for later play... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CPUWIZ #15 Posted June 5, 2006 So the Wii will not be equiped with some kind of built-in storage medium, like the Xbox's hard disk? If it did, then downloaded games could be stored for later play... The only thing close to that, is 512MB of on-board flash memory. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+Sauron #16 Posted June 5, 2006 The flash memory is the internal storage, and it can be upgraded by sticking in an SD card. Not quite as much space as a hard drive, but I imagine it should be quite adequate for the classic downloads. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pixelboy #17 Posted June 5, 2006 The flash memory is the internal storage, and it can be upgraded by sticking in an SD card. Not quite as much space as a hard drive, but I imagine it should be quite adequate for the classic downloads. Well then, if Nintendo makes it possible to store entire ROMs in the on-board flash memory, or better yet on an SD card, then I'd say paying around 5$ per game is relatively adequate since you'll be downloading each game only once. Super Metroid or Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis) for 5 bucks? Sure, why not! On the other hand, if they do let consumers store downloaded games on SD cards, then many people may "borrow" those SD cards, if you know what I mean... That definately wouldn't work out in Nintendo's favor... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ZylonBane #18 Posted June 5, 2006 It would be extremely easy to encrypt each game to only run on the system that downloaded it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
n8littlefield #19 Posted June 5, 2006 Yeah - they will definately have some decent encryption involved. Also, it is worth mention that in addition to the flash memory, Nintendo has verified in interviews that they will support USB storage as well, so you could have a harddrive to store Virtual Console System games or demos as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
msaeger #20 Posted June 6, 2006 (edited) 4.50 would be ok for games I haven't played but I know I will like (neutopia 2) but it's too much for experimenting. If they were 1.00 I would be more likley to try games I don't know much about. For the kind of games they are talking about making available they could not bother storing them locally and just download when you want to play. Then you would have to be connected to the internet all the time though. Edited June 6, 2006 by msaeger Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
liveinabin #21 Posted June 6, 2006 I trust it's not mandatory to leave the Wii on all the time, right? I'm trying to get into the habit of not leaving things on standby. It's really bad for our little planet. I love the idea of the Wii hosting DS demos though. I've tried taking my DS along to those download points in games stores, usually without much success. Most of the time, the stores aren't actually online themselves, so they can't update the points with anything newer than Polarium. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chrisbid #22 Posted June 6, 2006 if the downloaded content can be moved from one console to another, then this would be ok with me. i would also like to see the games be playable on a DS. even if it would only be playable through a wi-fi download that doesnt save, playing classic games on go would be a major coup for nintendo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
carpecarne #23 Posted June 7, 2006 I would like to know how easy it will be to run *cough*homebrew*cough* ROMs using their emulators. I'm particularily interested in their N64 one.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
+remowilliams #24 Posted June 7, 2006 I would like to know how easy it will be to run *cough*homebrew*cough* ROMs using their emulators. I'm particularily interested in their N64 one.... If/when the Wii is hacked then worry about it. Nintendo's not interested in letting you run your ROMs on their emulators. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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