For all my Nintendo love I seriously did not think these remade GameCube “Play on Wii” games would have much appeal (Pikmin, Mario Tennis). Same price as Wii games?! Minor changes? Dated games? Couldn’t possibly…
But against all rhyme or reason it’s worked. In Japan, at least, my critical Play On Wii thoughts would be dead wrong.
I guess with the success of the Virtual Console I should have known better. As an aside, normally I’d complain again about the price point of these titles here, again, and ask Nintendo to reduce them to $40 or $30 and do us all a favor. But Mario Tennis sits at #1 right now. They’re not going to change a thing because people are buying it. This is crazy. Profitable, but crazy.
Update: Got the pricing info incorrectly from a U.K.-based story earlier this year. Updated and removed with a slash.
I thought that these were cheaper than Wii games – around $30 US. This would be roughly in line with Resident Evil 4 be remade for Wii.
Also, as a write this, I realize that RE4 on Wii sold over a million copies and is basically a "New Play Control" game!
Crazy!? They'd be crazy to think any differently! Look how successful they're were in charging full price for an old console with a new outfit.
yeah Japan's a tough market to call. I really can't even pretend to understand all their preferences, just by proxy from looking at sales. an entirely different being than the US or Europe.
Old game, new game, how much have they made from the Virtual Console? The past is where you make money, same product with new eyes upon it. Wake up and see that in a time when people have the least money Nintendo is still making money, why are you always attacking them for that.
Also, wasn't this idea said when motion sensing on the Wii was announced and people were actually excited about it. Why wouldnt you think they'd buy it.
Plus its a dead month for games that arent for traditional gamers, except Fragile.
Whoa, the Play on Wii games are FULL price? Has there been confirmation of that?
If that's the case, that is ridiculous.
Play on Wii is 2000 yen cheaper than the average Wii game in Japan(5800 yen ).
It is supposed to be 29.99 when it releases in March.
Well it's pretty much a new game to a lot of people, and apparently the controls are good. I don't know how it was in Japan, but it seems like tennis was one of the most popular parts of wii sports in the us, and this is the first really good tennis game besides that.
If they can sell off Wii sports as a full game separately from the console in Japan, what did you think was going to happen? There's a reason these got made. 😛
Nice to see em succeed, maybe that'll get them to make a true sequel.
I'm looking forward to this new version of Mario Tennis for Wii! I hope it's great!