I don't understand what Nintendo doesn't understand about the obviousness of how to treat the Virtual Console. Seriously. Just release all your 20 year old games, how hard is it? I can download a SNES emulator on my Surface and a bunch of old SNES roms from various places and play them easily with my Xbox controller or touchscreen on the go. And this isn't even the first device to do such a thing. I had an N64 emulator on my Galaxy S
ONE.
Why are they launching with 8 games? And only one or two interesting ones...
I get that it takes time, etc. But I'd say most of the work has basically already been done for them. In fact, I almost guarantee someone has emulators running on the Wii U via the OG Wii OS already. Just release the entire damn legacy library. It's not hard, and you aren't building hype by releasing Balloon Fight once a week.
Pricing is also wack. Here's what it should be to compete with the likes of Apple/Google/Microsoft/Sony (who don't have a huge library of games from the 80's on):
NES, Gameboy/Color: 99c a pop, just do it. (Instant huge, high-quality library of 99c games to compete with app store)
SNES, GBA: 2.99
N64: 4.99
All those above:
Make it work on Wii U and 3DS, I will impulse buy almost every damn decent game they release at those pricepoints on nostalgia alone, no problem. There's even an opportunity here to do a subscription model to compete with Sony's Playstation Plus. Instant library for 50$ a year or whatever.
Hell, then just release Gamecube games, too, make them 9.99 a piece.
Allow all the games to run directly on the gamepad, out of the box, and allow save states.
Nintendo's reluctance to execute on the Virtual console is almost as bad as Disney keeping their damn movies in this arbitrary vault. It's stupid. Just stop, and sell us your damn games.
