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Skidonti on 26 June 2014

Um, it's not going to happen?
Super GB and the GB Player were not Virtual Console style emulators, anyway. They each had gameboy hardware inside to run the cartridges plugged into them.
You're not going to see a digital VC for 3DS on WiiU, like there is for GBA.

And I also don't think Nintendo is going to do another "3DS Player" hardware peripheral. They didn't do one for DS on Wii. I suppose I wouldn't mind it if they did, although as I have a 3DS I would never use it...



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HylianSwordsman on 26 June 2014

Never. And not because a less popular console would somehow sabotage a more popular one, that's silly. Considering how long it took them to get the DS games set up, and that they still don't have Gamecube games, I don't think it'll happen in the Wii U's lifetime. Next generation, however, I do think Nintendo will do the fusion console/handheld hybrid as rumored, and that doing so will allow them to more easily integrate virtual console games from various systems. They won't have to develop seperate console and handheld versions of virtual console games, and the whole thing will be integrated with the Nintendo Network account system, so we can count on 3DS games showing up in virtual console soon after the 3DS is discontinued, which should be about a year or so after the new hybrid console launches.



HylianSwordsman on 26 June 2014
Pavolink said:
I'm guessing 2016. I'll buy FE Awakening. Althought, I have a 3DS so hummmm.


Get it on the 3DS. Streetpassing people to battle their armies is fun, and the virtual console version won't have that.



burninmylight on 27 June 2014
Asriel said:
burninmylight said:

There's a difference between the Super Game Boy and GC's GBA player, compared to porting 3DS games directly to Wii U. The former didn't compete with handheld consoles because they used the games you already own, so they didn't make make handhelds obsolete. In fact, they augmented their respective handhelds because you could still use your GB/GBA on the go and play on a bigger screen at home using the exact same copy of your game. There was no, "Do I want it on GB or SNES? GBA or GC?"

Porting 3DS games to the Wii U makes it a direct competitor to the 3DS because you don't have that partner relationship. A downloaded Wii U game can't be shared with the 3DS. Nintendo first needs to implement a cross-buy system before this would start to make sense. Otherwise, the Wii U would be cannibalizing it's sibling. Pushmo World is a great example. It's been available for 3DS for a while and just released for Wii U. I'm debating on which console to buy it for: do I want to play it on a big screen with extra content, or do I want it on the go?

Also, "For example, currently it requires a huge amount of effort to port Wii software to Nintendo 3DS because not only their resolutions but also the methods of software development are entirely different. The same thing happens when we try to port Nintendo 3DS software to Wii U. "

A thousand times this. Good post.

Thank you for the compliment! :)



jonathanalis on 27 June 2014

i would love it.
but only with a native render upscale.



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sethnintendo on 27 June 2014

It would be better to put DS games on the Wii U.



burninmylight on 28 June 2014
padib said:
burninmylight said:
Asriel said:
burninmylight said:

There's a difference between the Super Game Boy and GC's GBA player, compared to porting 3DS games directly to Wii U. The former didn't compete with handheld consoles because they used the games you already own, so they didn't make make handhelds obsolete. In fact, they augmented their respective handhelds because you could still use your GB/GBA on the go and play on a bigger screen at home using the exact same copy of your game. There was no, "Do I want it on GB or SNES? GBA or GC?"

Porting 3DS games to the Wii U makes it a direct competitor to the 3DS because you don't have that partner relationship. A downloaded Wii U game can't be shared with the 3DS. Nintendo first needs to implement a cross-buy system before this would start to make sense. Otherwise, the Wii U would be cannibalizing it's sibling. Pushmo World is a great example. It's been available for 3DS for a while and just released for Wii U. I'm debating on which console to buy it for: do I want to play it on a big screen with extra content, or do I want it on the go?

Also, "For example, currently it requires a huge amount of effort to port Wii software to Nintendo 3DS because not only their resolutions but also the methods of software development are entirely different. The same thing happens when we try to port Nintendo 3DS software to Wii U. "

A thousand times this. Good post.

Thank you for the compliment! :)

I agree it was a good post : )

But my only disagreement is that if Nintendo is serious about this new strategy, then the 3DS software would not be simply part of a virtual console, but would be account-based and thus downloadable on both the 3DS and the U.

Thank you, but I did say that Nintendo would need to get a crossbuy system down first. I think Nintendo would be way too stubborn to go that route before next generation though.



Asriel on 28 June 2014
padib said:
burninmylight said:

Thank you, but I did say that Nintendo would need to get a crossbuy system down first. I think Nintendo would be way too stubborn to go that route before next generation though.

True, I replied a bit later after reading your post and was more focused on the "Virtual console" part of your post.

Of course, in OP I'm assuming a cross-buy system and I admit my use of VC on the title is misleading I'm going to change it.

I don't think Nintendo is too stubbord to offer this because they have just merged their home and portable research divisions and are serious about causing all their consoles to be brother systems (I posted the details in OP), and mentioned the likeness to be something like how the various android phones all play the same software (in general).



The issue here is that Nintendo don't seem to be in a rush to implement a kind of cross-buy system for Wii U and 3DS. I'd love to be wrong, but it sounds like it could only be their next consoles (the next generation sibling devices) that get cross-buy and truly unified accounts.

Asriel on 29 June 2014
padib said:
Asriel said:
The issue here is that Nintendo don't seem to be in a rush to implement a kind of cross-buy system for Wii U and 3DS. I'd love to be wrong, but it sounds like it could only be their next consoles (the next generation sibling devices) that get cross-buy and truly unified accounts.

@bold. I thought them stating they wanted to have brother systems and uniting their plants and creating a unified console ecosystem was hinting a lot at the contrary.



Yes, but they're talking about that with reference to their next generation of machines, and not in reference to 3DS and Wii U, which is why I'm saying that a proper unified account system might only happen when they launch their next machines.

toot1231 on 29 June 2014
Fusioncode said:
At the pace Nintendo is going? Maybe 3 more home consoles.


Sadly I agree with this.

Why is it taking so damn long for N64 games to come....



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