Nintendo paves way for Old-School games via Virtual Console |
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Nintendo
CEO Satoru Iwata, in a keynote address yesterday at the Game Developers
Conference in San Jose, California, revealed further plans for Virtual
Console, an online download service as “the video game version of
Apple’s iTunes music store.” by providing an emulator for classic games
developed by Nintendo, Sega, NEC/Hudson, and third-parties. Past
consoles specifically supported by the Virtual Console service include
the NES/Famicom, Super NES/Famicom, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis/Mega
Drive, and NEC TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine. Plans for the emulation of
additional classic platforms, such as NintendoÂ’s Game Boy, Virtual Boy
and Game Boy Advance, is already being made. He also divulged that
developers will have the option, through Virtual Console, to directly
sell new Revolution games rather than relying on disc-based media for
distribution.Despite this being an obvious move to boost Nintendo's new game console, Revolution, it is actually a cool development, considering that there's a good number of current gamers that would love a little trip down memory lane and savor the games that introduced them to the couch, ahem, world of gaming. Although Mr. Iwata confirmed that not all of the past games will be featured on this service, he assured that 'the best of them will'.
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The're just copying Xbox 360 with Xbox Live Arcade! =P Non-the-less, it'll still be a pretty cool feature.
yea but its diffrent xbox360 sucks for a next gen console
Xbox and Xbox 360 sucks
ok, i don't know if someone has already stated it but i just realised this means revolution will have a hard disk...
xbox340 is pants, and we all know it deep down. just look at the japanese market, they're true connoisseurs of gaming and they abhor the thing. (i know they have some *****ed up games out there, but they did bring us nintendo, sega and sony)
if you look at the various gimmicks for the different systems i think the console war becomes slightly more interesting... rev has that controller and now this retro game thing (not to mention being nintendo - zelda, mario, metroid etc)
ps3 has the power, backward compatibility, psp connectivity such as location free etc. it can be a pvr and play blu ray, and run linux also. (it's sony though, that's gran turismo, devil may cry, mgs4 etc)
xbox has jack *****.
so if you get BOTH rev and ps3 you won't have any gaming needs ever... if you are going to choose between them just consider which gimmicks suit you best.
oh yeah, and rev will be cheaper i think
They say Steam was the first network to get the idea working. I read many articles that have said all nextgen consoles would copy Vavle's idea...
This one is old but still
http://www.connectedhomemag.com/Networking/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=47556
itr doesnt matter what the ps3 is capable of if the price is too high. If the hardware is overly complicated then the developers will have troube and take longer for great games..ofcourse in my opinion it was too soon to start the next generation anyway.
who the ***** wants this all i want is homebrew aahhhha hhhhaaha ahhhh homebrew HOMEBREW oh sorry i was been a wanker then
the ps3 might be hard to program for, but with sony's efforts recently to add all the middleware's they can, that might help the devs. a little bit. and what nintendo is doing is basically what ppl with the psp 1.5 is doing but illegally. you never know, there might be some ppl out there who still wants to play retro games. as for the 360, i've been telling xbox fanboy's that there new system is nothin but a 1.5 version of the original xbox, MS rushed that system if not it would have been a great competitor.
even though its like xbox arcade who the f**k cares.Can u play mario bros on the xbox no.Can u play any old games know.I'm sorry to say this but the old games are pretty fun.Can you not stop playing super mario bros i know i could'nt. You have to admit the old games were addicting.Hopefully the games games wont cost too much i said like $10.oo-$15.00 would be a reasonable price
When was it announced that GB, VB and GBA games were being considered for the Virtual Console? I don't remember hearing that one.