Classic NES games not free!
UPDATE: Classic NES games will not be free. Some will be bundled to promote system sales, while others are bundled or unlocked within games. Bummer! They should at least offer us the chance to buy them. I'd gladly go the iTunes route and pay $1 for each classic NES game. Who's with me? If only the Revolution had a hard drive feature so we can store these games. Wait! Maybe the games can fit on the memory unit? I mean classic games must take up very little space. Or, what about saving the roms on our PC's and allowing us to play them from our console via wifi? After all, Nintendo did stress the importance of wifi with this new machine.
Come on folks, what do you think? Am I on to something here? Do you smell what I'm smokin'?
posted by John @ 11:19 AM
5 Comments:
At 1:36 PM,
John said…
Yes! and also, if they offered a download service similar to itunes, it would really help deter from piracy of games. I for one would not spend significant time online looking for NES roms if I could just buy them for a buck each. Its a win-win situation, Nintendo continues to earn revenue off games that are 20 years old, and gamers get to play classics on the Revolution for a buck a game.
At 1:29 AM,
wifiguy51 said…
I am thinking it is going to be a monthly thing. Or, most likely, the pay for each thing. NES games should be the cheapest, I mean, they are the ones that were the cheapest to make. I am with you though. NINTENDO PWNS!
At 10:14 AM,
Karmakin said…
From everything I read, what it's looking like is that it's going to be similar to the X-Box 360 Live system, namely you get points and you can use the points to buy stuff. They'll probably pack in points with various accessories.
At 11:00 AM,
John said…
I still would like to see a pay per game type system like itunes. Let us pay a friggin dollar to play Excite Bike or something. If Nintendo can make money off of a 20 year old game, then why the heck wouldn't they do it?
At 5:06 PM,
Garrison T. Benson said…
As for where the game will be stored... I think that for NES and SNES games, they could easily be stored online. I mean, you could download the game to the system's RAM each time you wanted to play it and you'd barely notice the delay. For N64 games, though, you'd probably want to save them on the flash memory.
I think it'd work well like this: you have an account with Nintendo WiFi (or whatever it will be called), you can purchase a game, and then download it whenever you want to play it. If you delete it, you can always download it again, because you own a digital copy.
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