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"For the 3DS, we'll be releasing a billion awesome new games to keep you busy all year, so please look forward to that.

For the Wii U, we...

...er...

...we'll see you at E3! (laughs)"

To be fair, it was a 3DS Direct. Of course the Wii U won't really feature - the 3DS didn't on the Wii U Direct.

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It's a very good idea, if the library was decent enough.

I like the idea of a netflix style service where games come and go and you've only a limited time to get highscores until it revolves around again leaving highscores an actual event.

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They should put everything on there and charge (say) £20 access to a virtual NES & all games, £30 for SNES etc. Forget all this nickle & diming with selling each game separately.

Isn't tbe problem that because they are relaunching a new product they have to resubmit each game to whatever countries classifaction board there is before it can be added for sale? So although a full library is a great idea it would cost them more than is possible?
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Isn't tbe problem that because they are relaunching a new product they have to resubmit each game to whatever countries classifaction board there is before it can be added for sale? So although a full library is a great idea it would cost them more than is possible?

Why would the same game need re-classifying over again? Maybe they can't do every single game at once but there's no reason why they couldn't put many games up every week rather than the pathetic drip-feed. And starting that drip-feed over again for Wii U is depressing.
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Spotify/Netflix for old games would be great... people would pay for that service. Open up your entire back catalogue for all you can eat play for a tenner a month. Alternatively, let people download the games for permanent purchase for a couple of quid.

I suspect they will get to this - but not after they've sold some of the crown jewels to you already.

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Does anybody REALLY play these old games? I can see why you might wanna have access to them for nostalgia but I know any old game I downloaded never got more than a few minutes playtime. Because old games are pretty rubbish.

I play them. I find modern games "rubbish" in the way you claim old school stuff is.
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Does anybody REALLY play these old games? I can see why you might wanna have access to them for nostalgia but I know any old game I downloaded never got more than a few minutes playtime. Because old games are pretty rubbish.

I agree really. I'd love access to them. Well I have access to them on an old modded Xbox with every game under the sun emulated on it. But that's packed away and I can't be arsed.

I hardly played any of them for more than a few minutes but I enjoyed the library as whole. Great fun trawling through looking for gems.

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Does anybody REALLY play these old games? I can see why you might wanna have access to them for nostalgia but I know any old game I downloaded never got more than a few minutes playtime. Because old games are pretty rubbish.

I download them and go WOO - look! WaveRace64 was excellent wasn't it... play it for an hour and then move on.

Super Metroid is the game I've lasted longest with, and ended up hating it.

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Why would the same game need re-classifying over again? Maybe they can't do every single game at once but there's no reason why they couldn't put many games up every week rather than the pathetic drip-feed. And starting that drip-feed over again for Wii U is depressing.

I'm not sure but the fact they are repacking a product and offering it in a different light might mean they are obliged to resubmit for classifcation each time. A lot of early VC releases were discovered because they were noticed at the classification stage often done well in advance of a release. Plus I seem to recall a figure of several thousand for each submitted title so it could prove very expensive.

The whole VC situation is arse and always has been. With enough of a push they could be making a mint and I've never been able to understand the situation its in. The 3DS was crying out for decent releases in the early days as the main software library was so sparse. But they did nothing and never seem to learn from their mistakes so its happening again. I really think they should look to how Sony handled the Vita store with PS1 games as the output there was huge.

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Does anybody REALLY play these old games? I can see why you might wanna have access to them for nostalgia but I know any old game I downloaded never got more than a few minutes playtime. Because old games are pretty rubbish.

Not much, but I do have MAME and a couple of console and home computer emulators (NES/SNES/Megadrive/Amiga/C64) on my PC with an arcade stick to relive the good old 8/16 bit days every once in a while. Can't say I'm bothered about early days 3D games apart from maybe Mario 64 though, they hurt my eyes these days.
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Actually 1080 is still playable. Apart from that I'd only be interested in GC onwards. It's pretty amazing how great GameCube games look considering it followed the N64. I mean, I don't remember being BLOWN away by GC visuals but they look great today whereas N64 games look awful.

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Actually 1080 is still playable. Apart from that I'd only be interested in GC onwards. It's pretty amazing how great GameCube games look considering it followed the N64. I mean, I don't remember being BLOWN away by GC visuals but they look great today whereas N64 games look awful.

I seem to remember the N64 managing something rubbish like 1500 polygons per frame (60fps). The first GC dev kit had a demo that did 250k polys.
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Actually 1080 is still playable. Apart from that I'd only be interested in GC onwards. It's pretty amazing how great GameCube games look considering it followed the N64. I mean, I don't remember being BLOWN away by GC visuals but they look great today whereas N64 games look awful.

1080 is still great, as is Excitebike 64. And F Zero X still looks great due to the super-smooth frame rate. Which is funny, considering people felt it looked awful at the time.

There's loads of great N64 games I'd re-buy. They'd definitely benefit more from a bit of extra work instead of a near straight ROM dump. Blast Corps at 60fps would be great. Or Piltowings 64 with the textures updated.

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1080 is still great, as is Excitebike 64. And F Zero X still looks great due to the super-smooth frame rate. Which is funny, considering people felt it looked awful at the time.

There's loads of great N64 games I'd re-buy. They'd definitely benefit more from a bit of extra work instead of a near straight ROM dump. Blast Corps at 60fps would be great. Or Piltowings 64 with the textures updated.

Blast corps hd would confirm the wii u as console of the generation for me, god I loved that game!

As for pilot wings 64, just post the South Park pic again!!!!

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Speaking of games that still look good, I'm playing Wind Waker at the moment (kind of re-playing, but I originally got stuck in one of the dungeons and never finished it), and by golly is that game still beautiful. I just did the fire dungeon (Dragon Roost Isle), and there's some lovely heat and lighting effects going on in there.

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Actually 1080 is still playable. Apart from that I'd only be interested in GC onwards. It's pretty amazing how great GameCube games look considering it followed the N64. I mean, I don't remember being BLOWN away by GC visuals but they look great today whereas N64 games look awful.

GameCube games looked so good that Nintendo made their next generation of games look exactly the same! That's how good GameCube games looked.

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Nintendo, for once, struck gold with the Wii Virtual Console. A large amount of games, from many publishers and many systems all in one place. A genius idea that should have been part of the central point for the system. Instead, they actually do accomplish their goal to a certain extent of many games from many systems and then hide them away in a eshop which is hellish to navigate, never promote new releases, never do price drops or have sales and then just quietly give up with the whole venture and start again on the Wii U except with not as much ambition this time around. As usual, Nintendo operates in opposite world to everyone else.

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GameCube games looked so good that Nintendo made their next generation of games look exactly the same! That's how good GameCube games looked.

That's HILARIOUS! But yeah, just goes to show you. Like, the leap from Ps3 - Ps4's gonna look tiny considering a massive leap n64-GC didn't seem that remarkable at the time.

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Nintendo, for once, struck gold with the Wii Virtual Console. A large amount of games, from many publishers and many systems all in one place. A genius idea that should have been part of the central point for the system. Instead, they actually do accomplish their goal to a certain extent of many games from many systems and then hide them away in a eshop which is hellish to navigate, never promote new releases, never do price drops or have sales and then just quietly give up with the whole venture and start again on the Wii U except with not as much ambition this time around. As usual, Nintendo operates in opposite world to everyone else.

The eShop interface is miles miles miles better than the WiiWare one.

I wish it used the same music though. Loved the WiiWare music.

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