no one is saying there isn't work, but the work done is not worth the price of admission and it should be offered free of charge. They have to do a shit ton more work for system updates. Would you be willing to pay 1-1.50 per system update? I'd be less upset if this was a 2 dollar one time fee for all owned games, but on a per game basis this is bullshit.
I know that save states don't take a shit ton if work. And playing off the Wii tablet is probably hardware anyways. They probably have a copy paste code that allows this shit to work. And you are bullshiting on the firmware updates thing. They add new features all the time that don't matter to the licensing agreements. Would you pay for these updates? If you would. I just don't know what to say.
They add them to sell more hardware units. New features means new sales. So as I said before, along with bug fixes and OS corrections, the costs to make system updates is amortized into production costs of a $300-350 hardware package. Such work is therefore not relevant to the discussion of a paid upgrade on an optional software unit.
It's perfectly relevant. Awarding people new Wii U-specific features for their previously purchased VC titles, free of charge, would certainly entice people to purchase a Wii U, just as any other OS feature would. Factor the cost into the system price, people will accept it more readily that way.
No one's demanding free VC games, these games have already been purchased. People are asking for free upgrades to their already purchased software that take advantage of the new hardware they've purchased. Like Sony has done with PS1 titles.
The software is only optional because Nintendo chooses to make it optional as a means to nickel-and-dime their customers. They could just as easily provide these enhancements "free of charge" and work the development costs into the price of hardware and future software sales.
There's still less PSN Classics/Game Archives than there are Virtual Console games. VC games are also generally more expensive, and the best selling VC games are mostly 1st party, meaning an even higher revenue take.
We HAVE heard a lot of bullshit from Vigil as I recall, so I'd treat anything from them with a grain of salt. Still, I do think once you figure out how to get it to work on one NES/SNES game you have it nailed for the rest of them. It's not like they're rebuilding these games from scratch, just taking an emulator and doing some tweaks if necessary to make a game run well. There's still making that digital manual though.
+132 3DS and 1 Wii U VC titles for a grand total of 778 Japan VC games. In other regions there's a greater disparity though, in the US it's 490 VC to 374 PSNC for example.
Likely in the Wii Shop Channel terms of use that none of us actually read. Just like every other online software store.
Considering the broken compatibility issues with a fair amount of titles, ill pay the dollar to not put up with that, thanks.
LOLno.
Basically people who dont have a Wii U are complaing? Is that what you are trying to say?
They're all too busy demanding Earthbound!
Yes. Wii U versions add:
In addition, it's very likely you will get 10 Club Nintendo coins for each game you upgrade, since the Wii U version counts as a different game than the Wii version for the sake of CN registration.
This is the most baffling thing.
I seem to recall there was a lot of stuff Vigil said that simply wasn't true in the end. Plus while this goes the opposite of how I expect, that WAS just as the Wii U was announced, versus the Cave being a game that came out within the last week. It's not implausible that for some reason they made it easy really early on, but changed that further in (maybe they originally tied up some of the system just for the second screen, only to decide letting developers choose how to use it was better?)
And a Blu-Ray is the same movie but with less resolution down-sampling from the remaster they already had to do for the DVD release and takes the same amount of work to produce. In fact, Blu-Ray production is likely even less time-intensive by comparison to our topic of conversation.