Wired magazine explores the concept of downloadable games and how it might affect the industry. From the article: “Nintendo looks especially poised to benefit from downloadable retro games. At E3, geeks waited in line for hours to play 1991’s Super Mario World on the Wii.” That last line is hilarious. Virtual console and WiiConnect24, here […]
Wired magazine explores the concept of downloadable games and how it might affect the industry. From the article: “Nintendo looks especially poised to benefit from downloadable retro games. At E3, geeks waited in line for hours to play 1991’s Super Mario World on the Wii.”
That last line is hilarious. Virtual console and WiiConnect24, here we come! Which are you more excited about?
[Thanks, Frank]
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I don't care much for WiiConect24 yet. But I am definitely looking forward to the Virtual Console. So many games I need to play..
I'm much more excited about Virtual Console. Wii Connect 24 has potential, but we'll have to see how well Nintendo and other developers will implement it.
Since i got my 360 i realized how great the virtual console is going to be. I can't wait.
I'm really curious to see all the features of both Virtual Console and WiiConnect24. Virtual Console could easily evolve as Nintendo wants to add content types. WiiConnect24, I suspect, will be less of an application on the Wii and more or less a feature some games will utilize. Then again, like they said, you'll wake up to a blinking light on your Wii, turn it on, and the WiiConnect24 screen will tell you that something new has arrived for Metroid Prime 3.
Both sound awesome, but when it comes to what keeps me up at night, it's the Virtual Console hands down. You see, I never had a NES; I was 6 when I got my SNES and the only thing I really cared about on it was Donkey Kong; The N64 looked awesome and I begged and begged my parents to get me one but they never budged, and Genesis I didn't know about because, once again, I was too young to care at the time those came out, and I had never heard of Turbografx until I did a research paper on videogames last year. So in a nutshell, I'm looking forward to all of those games I missed (especially Super Metroid and Super Mario RPG)