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The Wii Virtual Console Hands-On

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the business-is-believing dept.

Gamespot has a hands-on with the virtual console for the Wii. From the article: "Nintendo's Wii Virtual Console demo station featured five signature games from system's past: Super Mario Bros. from the NES, Super Mario World from the SNES, Super Mario 64 from the Nintendo 64, Sonic the Hedgehog from the Sega Genesis, and Bonk's Adventure from the TurboGrafix 16. The navigation menu only allowed us to scroll through the five title selection pages, so we didn't get a chance to select and download games to run."

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  1. Wiiiiiii ! by suv4x4 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An year ago I discussed with friends how Nintendo is going the way of SEGA and soon they'll go out of the hardware biz and port Mario to other platforms.

    Then I wondered why Nintendo chose to throw out the standard controller and move to something totally unorthodox, and thought that's a stupid move.

    I also recently laughed about the Wii name and discussed with friends that it'll fail sales.

    Now I know, Wii is THE console I will buy the moment it's out, because it provides an amazing value at a lower price and amazing innovation right in your living room.
    I may even buy one for my mother and grandmother, cause I always like to push technology down their throat, like any self-respecting geek should, and I think it'll be easier and more fun this time :)

    BTW, did you notice the guy talking on the Sony pressconference sounded pretty depressed after the Wii presentation the previous day :) they've all the reasons to be.

    1. Re:Wiiiiiii ! by mgabrys_sf · · Score: 4, Funny

      re:"I always like to push technology down their throat"

      I could make some filthy joke about people shoving wee's down other people's throats - but that would be crass and wrong and I'd never stoop to doing something like that, particularly in a public forum. It's just wrong.

  2. Re:Wild Speculation by springbox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh no! Jonh Dvorak created an account on Slashdot!

  3. Virtual Console to support Home-Brew? by inio · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the Official Page:
    Virtual Console ... will be home to new games conceived by indie developers whose creativity is larger than their budgets.
    This fits nicely with previous claims that developers of any size will be able to develop for the Wii (virtual console).