Five Game Gear games coming to 3DS Virtual Console

[Resident_Hazard]

Joelcool7 said:

Resident_Hazard said:

Eh, I still have my Game Gear and Shinobi for that matter (game's fucking hard).

Nintendo, I'm sure, will just overprice the crap out of these games turning off most people.  They need to follow what Microsoft does with it's Deals of the Week, and the sales they often have.  Oh crap, that reminds me, Pac-Man DX is only 5 bucks right now...

Man Microsoft charged 15$ for Banjo and another 15$ for Kazooie. Thats even more expensive then Nintendo sells its 64 games for. Microsoft charges really high most of the time so they can afford to do a deal every now and then. Also Microsoft makes money off of Live subscriptions to offset any less money they get from online games while Nintendo's only online profit comes from selling WiiWare and VC games!

Was not money spent to graphically upgrade those Rare properties to take better advantage of the HD output of the Xbox 360?

I'm not saying MS doesn't nickel & dime some aspects of their online set-up (stuff for Avatars should be cheaper), but I can see them charging more for games that have been reworked.  Upgrading from N64's blur-tastic graphics so that they look good in HD probably wasn't cheap.

I find a lot of prices on the XBLA to be pretty fair, and with so many sales and specials, it's hard to complain.  My girlfriend has downloaded almost as many games as she has purchased on disk for the system.  She catches pretty much all of them on sale.  Huge full-fledged games and game add-ons can cost 5 bucks.  And again, as was pointed out earlier, Sony charges like $6 for PS1 games to download on the PSP or PS3.  Nintendo charges 10 bucks for N64 games, 5 for NES and never has sales. 

By the way, there are currently three free games on the XBLA, and they're not too bad.