| Nairu said: Its different with the Virtual console, a lot of NES, SNES, Mega drive etc etc. Games are insanely hard to find these days, i could wander down to my local games store and pick up an old second hand Xbox game, like i could with a GC and PS2 one. Besides i wouldnt download a GC game to my Wii, would just use up valuable memory when i could go out and buy it. |
Plus with the VC, you don't have to deal with clunky old hardware and cartridges. The price is partially a convenience for not having to own a half-dozen systems just to play Super Mario Bros. 3, Zelda: ALttP, Bomberman '93, Sonic, Ys 1 & 2, and Magician Lord. (Not to mention the fact that a Turbo Duo + a Neo Geo alone will set you back the bulk of the price of a Wii...)
Aside from that, one could go pick up an old Xbox game for much less than 1200 MS points (what is that? $15?). And they won't take up a ton of space on your hard drive. This really seems more of a ploy by MS to sell more 120gb HDDs than anything else.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
