The Nintendo virtual console is the one of the greatest inventions that Nintendo has ever made. You can play old games that you have grown up playing as a child on this next generation system. However, there as some problems that I have notice with the virtual console.
I have several issues with the virtual console that may seem small but still it should not be happening. First problem is quantity vs. quality, the American VC has 250 games in it's library. 250 games to choose from is great but there are many terrible games, like Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest and Donkey Kong jr. math. Second problem is multiple versions of the same game and I'm talking to you Street Fighter 2. There a three versions of Street Fighter 2 in the VC; original, turbo: hyper fighting and super: the new challengers. Third and final problem, releasing issues. In America for an older game to come out on the VC, it has to be reviewed and rated by the ESRB which causes the game to take longer to come out. Why can't they not use the original rating from when the game was released from the first time but it does make sence that they rating the imported games because they neven saw the light of day in the U.S.
I hope that Nintendo thinks about which games should be released on the VC because if they flood the market with crap, people will think that everything is crap and you could miss out on some gems. There are some games that I wish they come out on the VC. Those games are Nights Into Dreams, the original Final Fantasy, Mother 2 (known outside of Japan as EarthBound), and 007: Golden Eye. Lets all hope and send evil emails to Nintendo to fix the problems in the VC (I was just kidding, don't send evil emails to them).
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6 comments:
i didn't know about this... just checked WOAH! tons of old games... all i need now is some points... ^^ i used to have a megadrive! gonna get down with some golden axe!
The ERSB was only founded in 1994, and as a result many of the games being released on the Virtual Console have never previously been rated - that's about a third of the way through the life of the SNES. I'm also under the impression that a number of the old ratings and categories have now been "retired", so it may well be that older games need to be resubmitted for release.
Conversely, the fact that they have to pay to get these games rated is one of the major deciding factors in determining the release rate - so studios have been backing away from releasing over VC as they've discovered that they've been unable to cover the costs associated with re-releasing games, in addition to reduced revenue for those weeks with a large number of title releases.
Interesting, I never knew it even existed in the first place. I'm not a Wii owner though so I guess I haven't really been following what I've been missing out on much.
I absoulutely love my Virtual Console! Im playing Breat of Fire 2 right now.
The original Publisher decides wich games are to be released on the VC.In your case SF 2 is a good example.I knew that Capcom beeing the people they are were going to release version after improved version.I just waited until they released Super Street Fighter and now im able to get some Cammy Love <3
Capcom wouldnt pass on making as much money as possible with their old titles and so wont other companies.
Youll be fine if you inform yourself a bit before you buy the games...
About the Rating:
Its good that they rate the games once again.Many games are now able to recieve a lower age rating than they did 15-20 years ago.A fine little example from Germany:
Golden Axe was banned back in the days and now got an agerating of 12.
The VC is great for lots of people .
But i don't really care about it because i still play my older system so i don't need it ^^
But it sure is great because you can have more place in the room , with only one system ^^
I guess they want to make the money out of the customers so they put a lot of random repeats (i.e. Street Fighter) or other games to save the cost. You can't expect too much out of them.
There used to be a lot of bootleg gameboy cartridges that shoves in a lot of random games into one media (so-called 30-in-1, 64-in-1 etc). Usually there are a few good games (about 5 of them), then the rest of them are simple or crap games like Snake. I used to know a lot of friends who go for such cartridges because they're cheap to get. They can break down easily but it's still cheaper than getting a real game.
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