has revealed that there have been 3.3 million Virtual Console games sold to the 5.84 million Wii owners around the world so far. Even if the majority were only NES games, that is a tremendous amount of money made! Expect the VC support to be ramped up as 2007 progresses..." /> News: Nintendo Wii News | Virtual Console = Worldwide Success! Page 1 - Cubed3

Nintendo Wii News | Virtual Console = Worldwide Success!

By Adam Riley 27.04.2007 23

Quick News - Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has revealed that there have been 3.3 million Virtual Console games sold to the 5.84 million Wii owners around the world so far. Even if the majority were only NES games, that is a tremendous amount of money made!

Expect the VC support to be ramped up as 2007 progresses...

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Mandown is offline. Mandown 27.04.2007#1

Smilie< Well done Nintendo, this does not surprise me in the slightest.

I imagine Nintendo have made obscene amounts of money from it.
Well done Nintendo for taking my money also. (27 quality games lol)

I must say in hindsight that Nintendo have suprisingly i think released some very big games so early, i think that this must be due to future plans to increase the platform list and to make original content of their making available later, "new classics", cannot wait!. SmilieLS

( Edited on 27.04.2007 21:51 by Linkyshinks )

 
Trepe is offline. Trepe 27.04.2007#2

I've already bought 13 games and now I want Final Fight. It's too easy.

Damn them!

 
Jump_button is offline. Jump_button 27.04.2007#3

^^ it win win we get the old game and they sell them to us and dont have to really make anything thing like boxs XD

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Raff is offline. Raff 27.04.2007#4

Suckers.

Well done Nintendo for taking my money also. (27 quality games lol)

It doesn't appear to be very difficult to seperate you from your money.

( Edited on 27.04.2007 22:31 by Grumbler )

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
 
Megadanxzero is offline. Megadanxzero 27.04.2007#5

Thinking back, the only possible reason I can come up with for Nintendo charging such stupid prices is because they didn't think enough people would buy them... Now that that's obviously not the case you'd think they'd decrease the prices, but I guess that's not gonna happen. Maybe it's been TOO successful, so they don't see a need to lower the prices? ;-;

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knighty is offline. knighty 27.04.2007#6

Just think, if those are

 
xeke is offline. xeke 27.04.2007#7


Suckers.

Well done Nintendo for taking my money also. (27 quality games lol)


It doesn't appear to be very difficult to seperate you from your money.

( Edited on 27.04.2007 22:31 by Grumbler )

It's good that he's not materialistic.

( Edited on 28.04.2007 09:13 by xeke )

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Raff is offline. Raff 27.04.2007#8

Smilie

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
 
Cheesing It Up is offline. Cheesing It Up 27.04.2007#9

3.3 million? Doesn't sound like such a great amount to be. I'm shocked that it's not at least 1 game per Wii!

 
Raff is offline. Raff 27.04.2007#10

Smells like cheese said:
3.3 million? Doesnt sound like such a great amount to be. Im shocked that its not at least 1 game per Wii!

It's going to be shit and you jolly well know it.
 
JoshSL is offline. JoshSL 28.04.2007#11

Sure, it's good for Nintendo, but I won't be supporting them much & get a move on.

They need to either make a price drop, or availability in Stars Catalogue.

I know people say that

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tiamat1990 is offline. tiamat1990 28.04.2007#12

People need to stop buying so many god damn VC games so Nintendo drops the price...

 
Martin_ is offline. Martin_ 28.04.2007#13

Well done to Nintendo for conning it's userbase out of millions. Well done indeed Smilie

 
Mandown is offline. Mandown 28.04.2007#14

knighty said:
Just think, if those are

 
Laurelin is offline. Laurelin 28.04.2007#15

I bought some Mario games via VC and you know what? I hated Mario, but his platformers are soooo great! Super Mario World is one of the best games out there. For some games VC is great. And Turbografx now gets the attention it deserves. Great console.

It's easy and convenient. I own Sonic 1, 2, Super Mario 64, Zelda MM and OoT, but I think some time in the not so distant future I will buy them again on VC.

Now I can play past Castlevanias and check out past great games I never would have bought.

I find your lack of faith disturbing!
 
Mandown is offline. Mandown 28.04.2007#16

Nintendo have made $23 Million from the Virtual console if you take the average price in Dollars!, for ROMs.

If they invest such funds in their Wii software that would be great for those 45 or so Wii titles they are working on.

I have a original PC engine with 3 games including the great Jackie Chan. I agree it's great that it is now amongst the masses.

Get Castlevania IV lauralin, you will not regret it- a fantastic game with that gives you aural feast and lovely mode 7 effects, i used to love it back in the day and it still holds up so well. LS

( Edited on 28.04.2007 11:42 by Linkyshinks )

 
Shig Guevara is offline. Shig Guevara 29.04.2007#17

well if people say the profit of $23 million is bad, WHY?! ROCKSTAR is making profit for sub-average games which is almost identical to its predicessor, so why can nintendo contribute its old games, atleast nintendo arent trying to claim its anything new.

Anyway the $23million can be put towards more good games and now nintendo is getting more exclusives it may help them attract more customers.

 
Wo33eR is offline. Wo33eR 29.04.2007#18

I'm glad Nintendo are making money, anything that helps them from leaving the games industry is a good thing.

However, as has been said of all the "money can go to..." - Maybe, just maybe they could hire one programmer and one designer, pay them

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James2t3 is offline. James2t3 29.04.2007#19

Yeah there making so much money off it you think the online area would benefit from it or at least using it to make more original channels.

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Martin_ is offline. Martin_ 29.04.2007#20

Or emulation which is on a par with free PC alternatives; Every game prog scan, 60Hz.

 
Zapp is offline. Zapp 29.04.2007#21

Smilie wow thats alot of VC games... i didnt expect that many people would buy them... anyway well done Nintey!

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jesusraz is offline. jesusraz 30.04.2007#22

It's sad how many sites are seeing this as the VC slowing down...Sega and Hudson appear to be loving the VC, promoting their releases via their own websites and SNK was very eager to jump on-board.

With the Votes, Photo and Mii channels all being promoted recently, it would not be surprising if Nintendo begins an ad campaign for the VC in the future as well.

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Mandown is offline. Mandown 01.05.2007#23

They should do, it makes sense.

Your right about Hudson Soft and SEGA, I reckon the sucess of the VC for them has pushed the possibility of releasing Wii versions to their classics like Bonk which i adore, and Nights which is not my cuppa tea. This is great for all and may well happen with other developers looking at what games of theirs are very popular. LS

( Edited on 01.05.2007 08:39 by Linkyshinks )

 

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