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WiiWare pricing is just about right. and unlike XBLA and PSN, there's a price limit that third party devs aren't allowed to break.

VC titles might seem a little pricy but emulating these games is actually very expensive as there are no homebrew emulators that work well on Wii.



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I think a price cut for older games would be reasonable. Like Microsoft does with some older XBLA titles.



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roxaskey said:
VC titles might seem a little pricy but emulating these games is actually very expensive as there are no homebrew emulators that work well on Wii.

With VC, I feel you really get what you pay for.  Yeah, a lot of the titles (especially Genesis, NeoGeo and Arcade games) can be gotten significantly cheaper via multi-game collections, but the quality of emulation and options usually sucks in comparison.  The recent SNK and Sega collections being good examples, they're dramatically cheaper per game but the emulation runs appreciably worse (even on more powerful consoles) with terrible things done to their IQ.  

The only collections which really compare to their VC counterparts are Sega's Japan only Sega Ages line for PS2.  And actually, emulation for both are handled by the same excellent company (M2).



They should do sales, like Steam, or iTunes. Have $1 or $2 or $whatever games on sale every weekend. I'm sure it would move titles that are otherwise not selling.



jarrod said:
roxaskey said:
VC titles might seem a little pricy but emulating these games is actually very expensive as there are no homebrew emulators that work well on Wii.

With VC, I feel you really get what you pay for.  Yeah, a lot of the titles (especially Genesis, NeoGeo and Arcade games) can be gotten significantly cheaper via multi-game collections, but the quality of emulation and options usually sucks in comparison.  The recent SNK and Sega collections being good examples, they're dramatically cheaper per game but the emulation runs appreciably worse (even on more powerful consoles) with terrible things done to their IQ.  

The only collections which really compare to their VC counterparts are Sega's Japan only Sega Ages line for PS2.  And actually, emulation for both are handled by the same excellent company (M2).


It's true.  I bought Megaman 9, my son loved it so instead of speading $5 each on VC for the classics, I found a GC Megaman collection and got MM 1-9 for $5 instead.   No problem with emulation on that one.



 

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Gamerace said:
jarrod said:
roxaskey said:
VC titles might seem a little pricy but emulating these games is actually very expensive as there are no homebrew emulators that work well on Wii.

With VC, I feel you really get what you pay for.  Yeah, a lot of the titles (especially Genesis, NeoGeo and Arcade games) can be gotten significantly cheaper via multi-game collections, but the quality of emulation and options usually sucks in comparison.  The recent SNK and Sega collections being good examples, they're dramatically cheaper per game but the emulation runs appreciably worse (even on more powerful consoles) with terrible things done to their IQ.  

The only collections which really compare to their VC counterparts are Sega's Japan only Sega Ages line for PS2.  And actually, emulation for both are handled by the same excellent company (M2).


It's true.  I bought Megaman 9, my son loved it so instead of speading $5 each on VC for the classics, I found a GC Megaman collection and got MM 1-9 for $5 instead.   No problem with emulation on that one.

lol!  I did the same, except I bought it for PS2 for like $10. 

 

Gotta be honest,  it gets a little repetitive if you try to play them all in a row.



joehok.gr said:
will someone tell nintendo to stop messing with us.a snes game used to cost 8 euro.(800 points),,,,,,,,,,,,,,BUT,,,,,,,,,now it costs 10-11 euro because the wii points are now more expensive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!old price 2000 points-20 euro
new price 2000 points-24 euro

I have my location as UK (since I can't access shop and stuff if I had Slovenia as location) and when I buy points with my card, I pay a little over 8€ for 1000 points. I end up paying around 17€ for 2000 points.

And in local stores, 2000 Wii Points cards are 20€.



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Gamerace said:
jarrod said:
roxaskey said:
VC titles might seem a little pricy but emulating these games is actually very expensive as there are no homebrew emulators that work well on Wii.

With VC, I feel you really get what you pay for.  Yeah, a lot of the titles (especially Genesis, NeoGeo and Arcade games) can be gotten significantly cheaper via multi-game collections, but the quality of emulation and options usually sucks in comparison.  The recent SNK and Sega collections being good examples, they're dramatically cheaper per game but the emulation runs appreciably worse (even on more powerful consoles) with terrible things done to their IQ.  

The only collections which really compare to their VC counterparts are Sega's Japan only Sega Ages line for PS2.  And actually, emulation for both are handled by the same excellent company (M2).


It's true.  I bought Megaman 9, my son loved it so instead of speading $5 each on VC for the classics, I found a GC Megaman collection and got MM 1-9 for $5 instead.   No problem with emulation on that one.

MMAC isn't emulated, it's actually recoded (they use the PS1 versions of MM1-6 too btw).  The IQ is bad pretty bad there too imo, smeary resolution upscaling versus the perfect chunky pixels and original low-res output on VC MM1-3, though that's admittedly more a preference thing.  Play them side by side on a good LCD and you'll really see the difference.

MMAC GC also had some controller issues iirc, Atomic Planet (who did the ports) reversed jump and shoot on the pad which made replaying them really aggravating for me.  I'd rather play with the Classic Controller myself though, which is why I sold it repurchased the VC versions of MM1-3 (hopefully 4-7 aren't far off).  Again, you really get what you pay for.

Overall it's okay, but if you want MMAC, I'd actually suggest the PS2 version over the GC one.



I think the price of points themselves should be lowered and advertised, I think that would get more people on the internet like nintendo want.



Seems really unlikely, but would be cool. VC is way overpriced, imho. :(



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