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New PS3, Wii, 360 Downloadables Announced
360 gamers have Lost Planet to look forward to this week, but PS3 and Wii owners have things to smile about as well. Today's virtual console game releases feature the Hudson classic title Dungeon Explorer, as well as the shmup Gradius and the sidescrolling shooter Soldier Blade. PS3 owners will get six great downloadable titles sometime 'in early 2007', courtesy of Midway and Sony Online Entertainment. "The six games announced in the deal are Mortal Kombat II, Gauntlet II, Joust, Rampage World Tour, Rampart, and Championship Sprint. Sony Online said those titles were chosen specifically for their multiplayer components, as the company is adding online play for all six." Update: 01/08 22:32 GMT by Z : Oops. Missed Ms. Pac-Man on XBLA this week.
WHY is Nintnedo delaying the release of Super Mario Bros. 3 and more N64 titles in favor of a lot of the old 8-bit games that (let's face it) not many of us are waiting for? Compatibility problems? Artificial inflation of demand? Not that this list for the VC is all that bad -- hmmm.... Gradius -- but I'm not really looking to spend more Wii points just for the sake of spending Wii points.
Mario, Mario, wherefore art thou a game that Nintendo dost sit upon?
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Actually it's kind of a nice price. I got Crash Bandicoot for the PSP for about 6 bucks and Grip Shift for the PS3 for about 10 bucks. I'm glad all the new consoles are offering downloads like this. It probably doesn't make sense to sell a disk consisting of a single old game for a cheapo prices, but it makes a hell of a lot of sense for a download. I pay more for two people to eat at Burger King than I did for Crash.
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Well, i've never heard of Dungeon Explorer or Soldier Blade, but DE seems like an interesting game, I might download that one. However, I'm still waiting for my Baseball Stars and Tecmo Super Bowl. =) I already got my Toe Jam and Earl, but I'm still crossing my fingers for Metal Warriors and waiting for Super Mario World (SNES).
Boy, Nintendo is surely making a killing on these (expensive) download games ($5-10 for what? Converting a ROM?)
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Because Nintendo is still selling Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 for Game Boy Advance and the Nintendo DS's GBA compatibility mode.
and more N64 titlesNintendo is selling N64 titles on the Nintendo DS.
Compatibility problems?Could be part of it. I've read reports of sound being off. If the emulator used for NES games in Virtual Console is anything like the emulator used for NES games in Animal Crossing Population Growing for GameCube, then it appears that bug-for-bug compatibility isn't Nintendo's first priority. Specifically, the "killed by spark" sound on emulated Balloon Fight isn't nearly as buzzy as the sound on the NES cartridge version; it's more like a hum. If Nintendulator, Nestopia, and FCE Ultra on a comparably powerful PC (PIII 866 MHz, 128 MB RAM) can get it right, then why can't Nintendo's own emulator? Furthermore, Nintendo wants to avoid the problems that Konami has had where the two players on Contra for Xbox Live Arcade have got out of sync.
...you were ahead of your time with your color handheld game that took the same credit card sized game cartridges of as the regular console. I'll wax nostolgic about how I used to play Dungeon Explorer until the wee hours of the morning- on a quest for Natas.
Four HUNDRED not four DOLLARS. ...Do you work for Verizon?
I especially liked how they barely mentioned the 360 releases. Everyone knows that Sony is god.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
As the original system was not released here :( I'm not sure why Nintendo wont release the games to Australian users. Any ideas?
But you can get the games by changing your region to UK and then download. But the consumer shouldnt have to do that.
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What? The downloading feature has definitely been used, for PS3 specific games, PS1 games released for PSP, game demos, and more. I'm not sure where you're coming from.
Yeah...been downloading arcade and demos and etc since day one release. Been playing Gran Turismo HD and Tekken 5: DR from their download service. Not sure what the OP is saying.
Anyway, that's still the Wii's release vs the PS3's announcement with no firm release date.
Fair warning on midway collections....
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Skip the PC versions
Starforce infested and sucky sucky controls. No steering wheel recognition for race games, no joystick for joystick operated games, etc. Annoying interface and bloated install. Very cheesy port of a port, some shareware ripoffs are better done. Maybe #1 was ok, but #2 sucked and #3 was worse.
At least these guys can't possibly do any worse with the d/l games.
How about a trade-in program so those of us with the original NES/SNES/N64/Sega/NEC game cartridges can exchange the old physical game carts for their Wii virtual console counterparts? That way, these aging game carts can be collected at a centralized location and recycled (as in real recycling, not the "sprawl the toxic parts on the ground of a third world country" type). They could also offer such a service to recycle old consoles as well, and then credit the user 500-1000 points for each console they send in.
15-20 years worth of games/consoles adds up to one hell of a lot landfill space.
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Yea, those mean mean Sony haters.
Nevermind that Slashdot has long been a bastion of Nintendo(lots of mid-20s -> early 30s tech people), and people who *dared* to buy the gamecube and to a lesser extent, the N64, took endless levels of shit for it just about everywhere from the exact same types of people that post the limited amount of pro-sony stuff on the tech sites. Add in a couple enormous missteps by Sony, the fact that this is principally an American site and America loves underdogs(which sony is not) and falls from grace(current Sony), and there's not a lot of love to spare for the company outside the people who honestly don't care about the whole scene(and are just exhibiting the engineer trait of being contrary for the sake of being contrary), and the diehard idiots.
Sony, and their fanbase, really brought it on themselves. So either quit your bitching or uncheck the games section until the Summer, by which time it should have all completely burnt out(it already mostly has).
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Saying the game costs $600 because the console does it like me claiming it costs me £5500 to drive to work in the morning because that includes what I paid for the card. If there's absolutely nothing else on the system that he's interested in, then yes, Rampart online does cost him $606.
Just like DarkAlex's 302OE-b cost me $154.