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[Father_Brain]

Because they're Nintendo. Literally no other company is this inept when it comes to internet.

Given that they seem intent on learning as little as possible from what other companies are doing with online services, I think attributing it to mere ineptitude is overly generous.

 

[Fourth Storm]

Because emulating a GameCube-game on a Wii U is pretty hard? The Wii U is a lot more powerful than the GameCube, but Nintendo likes games to be emulated practically perfect and that's still awful hard to do for something as new as a GameCube.

As far as we can tell, Wii U should be able to handle GCN games natively - no emulation required. The only thing that's preventing Gamecube games from playing on Wii U is the disc drive and lack of controller ports.

 

[Drago]

It looks like the Japanese are getting:

1. Ice Climber
2. Excitebike
3. Xevious
4. River City Rampage
5. Balloon Fight
6. Spelunker
7. Kirby's Adventure
8. Super Mario World
9. Mario's Super Picross
10. F-Zero
11. Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
12. Super Ghouls'n Ghosts
13. EarthBound

Why can't we get Mario Picross as an import title? It's in english, no? Why?!?!

 

[serplux]

so, is it true that the euro version of Mario World will be 60 Hz?...


that would be sweetest!

Does the PAL version have any European language in it? Because that is surely going to prevent at least Super Metroid to have 60hz.

Said this in the other thread, but isn't Super Mario World faster in PAL than in NTSC?

 

[cyberheater]

I have a theory that Nintendo have at most 2 people working full time on the WiiU.

 

[Mileena]

But it's $8!

That's more than I paid for Sleeping Dogs (PC)


Nintendo :lol :lol :lol

 

[EvilMario]

Why can't we get Mario Picross as an import title? It's in english, no? Why?!?!

I wish we'd see a release of Mario & Wario. It would have made perfect sense with the Wiimote emulating the Mouse too.

 

[Glass Joe]

Man, reading that list just makes me sad. It took 5 months to cook up 8 games? I wasn't expecting the world, but I certainly am not expecting regular updates anymore either. 1 or 2 games a week from here on out, if we're lucky.

It looks like the Japanese are getting:

1. Ice Climber
2. Excitebike
3. Xevious
4. River City Rampage
5. Balloon Fight
6. Spelunker
7. Super Mario World
8. Mario's Super Picross
9. F-Zero
10. Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
11. Super Ghouls'n Ghosts
12. EarthBound

I was about to ask for Japan's line-up, thanks. At least Super Ghouls n' Ghosts is a 3rd Party game. I probably would have picked that up if given the opportunity. Same with River City Ransom.

Unless they announce 3DS/Wii U cross play when it launches, this is pathetic. Come to think of it, even the 3DS ambassador program had a good line up in comparison (20 games) and that was a free apology! I would expect, you know, more, when they're trying to make money.

I think the Ice Climbers or Balloon Fight boards will be the best place to do my bitching.

EDIT: River City Ransom, not Rampage. I knew that didn't sound right!

 

[Mockingbird]

It looks like the Japanese are getting:

1. Ice Climber
2. Excitebike
3. Xevious
4. River City Rampage
5. Balloon Fight
6. Spelunker
7. Kirby's Adventure
8. Super Mario World
9. Mario's Super Picross
10. F-Zero
11. Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
12. Super Ghouls'n Ghosts
13. EarthBound

So people shouldn't be mad at Iwata?

 

[Ridley327]

That's more than I paid for Sleeping Dogs (PC)


Nintendo :lol :lol :lol

You can't turn the goomba into pumpkins in Sleeping Dogs, now can you?

HMMM?!?

 

[Jucksalbe]

as far as I reneger it was totally translated....




seems to be a rumor then. BAH!

Super Mario World wasn't translated. At least the German version wasn't.

 

[Taker666]

Did anyone honestly expect more than a dozen games? I didn't think it would be that many to be honest.

It was fairly obvious they'd stagger the releases again. I'm not sure why anyone would be delude themselves to think otherwise.

 

[boyshine]

When are we going to get Yoshi's Island, in 2015 ?

Were any Super FX games released on VC?

 

[Alec]

All they had to do was add EarthBound to this list. How difficult could it have been to 'get the lead out' and just make it happen at VC launch?

I would've been happy if the *only* title they released at VC launch was EasrthBound.

But I would also pay $50 for it so maybe I'm not the best gauge.

 

[VertPin]

No gamecube games? No SNES or N64? Jeez...

 

[hatchx]

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.

Tears of joy if this happened.

 

[prag16]

If they launched with that, alongside a few N64 staples this wouldn't have been as horrific. But there it is. Very bad lineup... UNLESS they are serious this time, and launch 3-4 new ones per week. But I bet we're lucky to see much more than that per MONTH.

 

[Somnid]

So people shouldn't be mad at Iwata?

I'm sure he has personal reasons for pushing Kirby's Adventure and Balloon Fight to the front. So I guess so.

 

[Jucksalbe]

No gamecube games? No SNES or N64? Jeez...

Huh?

 

[Ridley327]

Did anyone honestly expect more than a dozen games? I didn't think it would be that many to be honest.

It was fairly obvious they'd stagger the releases again. I'm not sure why anyone would be delude themselves to think otherwise.

As it turns out, a dozen games was too optimistic.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

What in the FUCK have Nintendo been doing the last 3 years? How can everything for the Wii U be so half assed when they basically moved on from the Wii in 2010? How does Iwata still have a job?

 

[Outtrigger888]

I wonder whats Nintendos philosophy behind this.

Is it...

If we slowly trickle games, lets say start with 8, people will end up buying more games overall.

If we started with 20 games people might only buy 4-5. If we start with 8, people will buy 4-5, then later in the future another 8, the same people will buy another 4-5.

Overall, them people bought 8-10 out of 16 games oppose to just buying 4-5 out of 20 games.

Eh..I dunno...

 

[Glass Joe]

No gamecube games? No SNES or N64? Jeez...

It was announced a long time ago that NES and SNES would be the only consoles to start, with GBA and N64 coming some unspecified time later. At least bitch about the poor line up, not what we've known about for months!

 

[Toki767]

I wonder whats Nintendos philosophy behind this.

Is it...

If we slowly trickle games, lets say start with 8, people will end up buying more games overall.

If we started with 20 games people might only buy 4-5. If we start with 8, people will buy 4-5, then later in the future another 8, the same people will buy another 4-5.

Overall, them people bought 8-10 out of 16 games oppose to just buying 4-5 out of 20 games.

Eh..I dunno...

I guess they haven't realized that Wii U owners aren't really starved for games that they'll buy whatever gets put up. They'll just take their money elsewhere.

 

[Meelow]

What in the FUCK have Nintendo been doing the last 3 years? How can everything for the Wii U be so half assed when they basically moved on from the Wii in 2010? How does Iwata still have a job?

It looks like the Japanese are getting:

1. Ice Climber
2. Excitebike
3. Xevious
4. River City Rampage
5. Balloon Fight
6. Spelunker
7. Kirby's Adventure
8. Super Mario World
9. Mario's Super Picross
10. F-Zero
11. Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu
12. Super Ghouls'n Ghosts
13. EarthBound

If you want to get mad at someone it's Reggie, Japanese list is far better.

 

[oatmeal]

Can't wait for Iwata to get fired.

 

[Ollie Pooch]

The horror if they had decided to beat customers' expectations...

Seriously. It's just over promise, under deliver time and time again.

They seem more and more content lately to just underwhelm instead of trying to blow people away or offer something really cool. There's incompetence there but it comes off as arrogant, too. I don't understand where they're coming from at all.

Haha, the first page of responses speaks volumes.

Well done, Nintendo. Most of the people that own the sad excuse for a system Wii U is right now are core Nintendo fans who likely have most, if not all of these titles in some form or another (and in the case of Mario World, probably via numerous avenues). How does this serve those loyal users?

What a joke. I'm so glad I've yet to even consider getting the system. I'd really like to see it crash and burn this Q4.

It certainly deserves to, if this is the effort that's gonna be put in. In concept it's pretty cool, imo. But it seems Nintendo have turned it into a bit of a clusterfuck.

 

[Chrom]

Why can't we get Mario Picross as an import title? It's in english, no? Why?!?!

Mario's Super Picross is entirely in Japanese.

 

[Box of Bunnies]

I wonder whats Nintendos philosophy behind this.

"Well we don't have any real retail releases in the pipeline so maybe if we give one or two Virtual Console games a week it'll create the illusion of games actually coming out for the system."

 

[serplux]

EDIT: River City Ransom, not Rampage. I knew that didn't sound right!

I was thinking about Retro City Rampage in my mind, so I mixed the two together.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

If you want to get mad at someone it's Reggie, Japanese list is far better.

You really think NoA calls the shots on anything anymore? Reggie's a figure head doing Japan's bidding.

 

[Drago]

Mario's Super Picross is entirely in Japanese.

There was a European version, no?

I definitely know it's on the EU Wii VC.

 

[alf717]

So that countdown was for the reveal of the list and not the service itself? That list is only four titles long. The other four already hit threw the $0.30 program.

 

[Gonzo The Great]

Mario's Super Picross is entirely in Japanese.

No it's not, only the title screen is. The game was released in Europe for a reason.

 

[hwy_61]

Wow.

Can't say I'm surprised. Stupid ass company.

 

[Jucksalbe]

There was a European version, no?

I definitely know it's on the EU Wii VC.

It was an import title on the Wii VC.

 

[Mileena]

just complained on the Kirby miiverse. wonder how long till they delete it

 

[Def Jukie]

Did anyone honestly expect more than a dozen games? I didn't think it would be that many to be honest.

It was fairly obvious they'd stagger the releases again. I'm not sure why anyone would be delude themselves to think otherwise.

I expected more than a dozen. They have next to no software out for the system right now, why not try and fill it in with some VC releases? They also had 12 games for the Wii VC launch. They easily should have had more than that available for the Wii U launch. I fully expect them to stagger the releases but they need to put more out at once especially when there are hardly any retail games available for the system.

 

[reggieandTFE]

This is embarrassing and pathetic.

 

[KarmaCow]

The combination of the thread title teasing info about the launch lineup only to have OP be a list 8 games made me actually made me laugh out loud.

 

[Glass Joe]

I was thinking about Retro City Rampage in my mind, so I mixed the two together.

I was editing my quote because I wrote River City Rampage too, so it was kinda funny is all.

NOA still doesn't seem to know what's going on. Even for this launch line-up, it says on their facebook "Stay tuned to be the first to know when the Virtual Console is live!"

Got news for ya Nintendo, it won't be very lively when it IS live.

 

[Chrom]

There was a European version, no?

I definitely know it's on the EU Wii VC.

Yes, but it's still in Japanese.

No it's not, only the title screen is. The game was released in Europe for a reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJnkplIQ0jQ

...Nope.

 

[thiscoldblack]

All I can hear is Iwata-san saying "Please understand" from that list. *sigh*

 

[ElectricKaibutsu]

VC on the Wii U?? Great! I'm going to pick up Secret of Mana, and definitely A Link to the Past, oh and I can't forget about Donkey Kong Country. Ooh, and Star Fox, too!

...

Or Baloon Fight is fine. No really. I love... Baloon Fight.

Edit:

EDIT: River City Ransom, not Rampage. I knew that didn't sound right!

Thanks, that was bugging me

 

[UberTag]

You really think NoA calls the shots on anything anymore? Reggie's a figure head doing Japan's bidding.

He should be fired for being a useless puppet then.
Replace him with the janitor or the water cooler or Charles Martinet or something.

 

[serplux]

There was a European version, no?

I definitely know it's on the EU Wii VC.

Eh? Mario's Super Picross is a Wii U VC launch title in Europe, according to the Nintendo Direct.

 

[schuelma]

I swear this entire Wii U launch has been a grand experiment to determine how many times you can fuck up and still sell 20 million consoles.

 

[Dr.Palutena]

This list has gone and exceeded all expectations from me of mediocrity.Bravo Nintendo, Bravo.

 

[VertPin]

Huh?

I don't know how I missed F-Zero and Super Mario World. My bad.

 

[Glass Joe]

The combination of the thread title teasing info about the launch lineup only to have OP be a list 8 games made me actually made me laugh out loud.

Maybe if there was sounder logic behind it, I would be okay. Other than the 30 cent promo games (and some of those too) they appear to be original system launch games. Now if it was just Super Mario World, F Zero and Pilotwings for SNES, plus whatever the original NES launch was, I could at least hold out hope that they're being cute. But they're not. There's apparently one guy in Nintendo's janitor's closet rewriting all these games.