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8 minutes ago, rgraves said:

I'm sure it was 1.5GB! Exhibits A, B, C, and D m'lord...

 

You are correct. I am thinking of UMDs.

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24 minutes ago, Made of Ghosts said:

But the Switch won't have analogue shoulder buttons! This will completely ruin all of the many GC games that used them for crucial things.

 

25 minutes ago, deKay said:

 

That would solve the no-analogue-triggers problem at least!

 

I think it will actually - have analogue shoulder buttons on the Joycons that is. I'd be surprised if what we can see here at the top is not them:

 

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NeoGAF always amazes me - right now the majority of folks on there are outraged at the thought that Nintendo might charge for VC titles again. It would appear that, in their eyes, buying a title way back on the Wii should have granted them a lifetime licence to that title on all future Nintendo platforms. And by not doing that, Nintendo are basically anti-consumer.

 

I can't fathom that line of thinking - surely you buy the game on the Wii platform and can play it as much as you want. Nobody ever stops that. You want to play on another platform, then surely it's reasonable to expect to pay another fee (which might be reduced if you bought it previously as a sweetener). The VC is not a platform, it's a brand much like Nintendo Selects. I don't think they ever said - buy this NES title now for £5 and we'll give you access to it for free on every piece of future hardware - so why are people expecting that? I find the whole - "I've bought it once, I'm not paying for it again" mental - you've not bought it on that platform. You've bought it on the previous one, and can still play it on that. It's still yours on that platform. In my head, it's like saying you own the vinyl and expect the CD for free. Or you bought the previous albums, so you expect the greatest hits containing the same songs for free.

 

Are folks on here the same - is there really a feeling that if you bought something back on Wii it's ridiculous of Nintendo to ask you to pay for it again on Switch if you actually want to play it on Switch?

 

EDIT - Just to add, I could see the line of thinking much more if VC was an online service or something that you created an account in, logged in and out of, and was run either in the cloud or remotely, had it's own wallet etc, but it's not. It's just a category of software on the respective platform store - not an individual thing.

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36 minutes ago, rgraves said:

There's bound to be something that makes us slap our foreheads and wonder what on earth were they thinking. Bound to be, just a matter of time before we know it. It's all far too positive at the moment.

 

EDIT: WANT :wub:

 

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Suspect, sadly, ED will never see the light of day on switch due to silicon knights no longer being around

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1 hour ago, rgraves said:

NeoGAF always amazes me - right now the majority of folks on there are outraged at the thought that Nintendo might charge for VC titles again. It would appear that, in their eyes, buying a title way back on the Wii should have granted them a lifetime licence to that title on all future Nintendo platforms. And by not doing that, Nintendo are basically anti-consumer.

 

I can't fathom that line of thinking - surely you buy the game on the Wii platform and can play it as much as you want. Nobody ever stops that. You want to play on another platform, then surely it's reasonable to expect to pay another fee (which might be reduced if you bought it previously as a sweetener). The VC is not a platform, it's a brand much like Nintendo Selects. I don't think they ever said - buy this NES title now for £5 and we'll give you access to it for free on every piece of future hardware - so why are people expecting that? I find the whole - "I've bought it once, I'm not paying for it again" mental - you've not bought it on that platform. You've bought it on the previous one, and can still play it on that. It's still yours on that platform. In my head, it's like saying you own the vinyl and expect the CD for free. Or you bought the previous albums, so you expect the greatest hits containing the same songs for free.

 

Are folks on here the same - is there really a feeling that if you bought something back on Wii it's ridiculous of Nintendo to ask you to pay for it again on Switch if you actually want to play it on Switch?

 

EDIT - Just to add, I could see the line of thinking much more if VC was an online service or something that you created an account in, logged in and out of, and was run either in the cloud or remotely, had it's own wallet etc, but it's not. It's just a category of software on the respective platform store - not an individual thing.

 

I got called an idiot on here once for saying how much I enjoyed the GBA versions of Link to the Past and Mario World when I could have just got a SNES and the original versions second hand and saved myself loads of money.

 

It's not the same thing obviously, I just remembered it reading your post.

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2 hours ago, rgraves said:

NeoGAF always amazes me - right now the majority of folks on there are outraged at the thought that Nintendo might charge for VC titles again. It would appear that, in their eyes, buying a title way back on the Wii should have granted them a lifetime licence to that title on all future Nintendo platforms. And by not doing that, Nintendo are basically anti-consumer.

 

Would be neat though.  Have a service like Steam, where you buy a game and it stays in your library forever.

So if you bought Super Mario RPG on VC back on the Wii or something, it stays with you, linked to an online account.

 

It wouldn't be a terrible idea and might actually benefit Nintendo in the long run.  Of course physical disc games wouldn't be able to be claimed digitally, due to the market for buying used games nowadays.  But this could give people more incentive to buy digitally.

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11 minutes ago, BruceBruce said:

 

Would be neat though.  Have a service like Steam, where you buy a game and it stays in your library forever.

So if you bought Super Mario RPG on VC back on the Wii or something, it stays with you, linked to an online account.

 

It wouldn't be a terrible idea and might actually benefit Nintendo in the long run.  Of course physical disc games wouldn't be able to be claimed digitally, due to the market for buying used games nowadays.  But this could give people more incentive to buy digitally.

 

In a perfect world this is what would happen. I just can't see Nintendo ever going down this route though. It seems too logical.

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