Some Revolution Downloads Will Be Free

GamesRadar has the details from an interview with Nintendo of America VP George Harrison, in which he passes on the very good news that certain past-gen Nintendo titles will be free for download onto the Revolution. The article seems to imply that primarily the games available for free download will be Nintendo created titles. From the article: "This is a clever move by Nintendo: regardless of the final power of Revolution and the frequency of new titles, Nintendo knows that its loyal fans will cry tears of joy over a free service that lets them download previous Nintendo classics straight out of the box."

Comments

Re:Best idea ever

[nb caffeine]

A friend of mine bought an xbox just so i could mod it for him and he could play nes/snes/genesis emulators on it after seeing my collection. not all roms work 100% obivously, but the ones that he wanted it for work perfect (this is the same kid who bought a dreamcast after seeing the emu disks i had burned. Obiviously a fan of the classic gaming)

Re:Nice move

[DavidLeblond]

*Looks up from his P2P app* huh?

Re:Why not read the original interview?

[ferrx]

Yep, but that's just the thing, Slashdot isn't reporting the interview which was conducted a week go, they're reporting an article writer's misundertsanding of said interview.

Re:Makes the Revoution Sell

[Anonymous Coward]

> For instance, my wife, someone who is decidedly not a gamer, said we are definitely getting a Revolution as soon as I told her about being able to play all the old school Nintendo games.

If your wife is not a gamer, I wonder what mine is. She would say something along the line of:

"Err, exactly, who is Nintendo ?"

Wait, wait, I've got this one...

[Intellectual Elitist]

Nintendo fanboy: "This is just more proof that Nintendo understands gamers better than anyone else. I mean, who would have ever thought that you could play older games on a current console? Nintendo doesn't need cutting-edge technology when they have cutting-edge ideas like these! Let all those other posers have their Grand Theft Halo 7 or whatever -- I'm perfectly content playing only Mario, Metroid, and Zelda games!"

XBox fanboy: "Nintendo R teh sUxX0rZ, d00d. XBox graphics R sick, w/ redder blood + tight controls + Live just r00lz. DOA Volleyball + Blood Wake R sw33t. I saw teh 360 on MTV and it pwns!"

Playstation fanboy: "I'm glad that you enjoy your cutesy games about fat, mushroom-eating plumbers. In the meantime I'll be enjoying the largest game library of any console, and the vast majority of those new games will finally make full use of my obscenely expensive HDTV. $400-$500 for the console? Hell, I wipe my ass with that kind of money. I really couldn't care less about the Revolution."

Casual gamer: "Is this one of those stupid blogs? I just wanted to check my email..."

Don't forget...

[Anonymous Coward]

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, and Right.

Then B, A, and Start.

any relation?

[J0re]

from an interview with Nintendo of America VP George Harrison

Where's the rest of the staff? John, Paul, and Gringo?

Re:any relation?

[snuf23]

You say you want a revolution?

Re:any relation?

[amliebsch]

We'd all love to see the plans.