Virtual Console games are too expensive . . .

[Scoobes]

Senlis said:

theARTIST0017 said:

Scoobes said:
They are highly overpriced (especially in the UK). I can get PS1 games for cheaper than SNES games and they took a lot more work and money to produce.

And I don't get the argument people make about shipping and how old games still cost loads if you buy them. With VC games, the game you're downloading is just stream of data of an old game that's only what? 10Mb? if that? If you buy an original cart you're not just paying for a game, you're paying for a piece of history.

Thank you my good man. Some people just won't get that through their skulls :P

 

That's true.  But something to consider is that you are paying for more than ~10MB worth of data.  You are also paying for them to make the games work on the Wii and also to maintain the servers the games are downloaded from.  Also, if the game has any licensing fees, it pays for those also.

I understand that, but people having been doing this sorta stuff for free for years now with emulators and ROMs on PC. I don't know how lega it all is so the licensing is a valid point, but on the technical side, these games should be as cheap as chips. Even with the licensing however, the fact that Sony puts PS1 games for cheaper than SNES games kinda destroys that theory.