[QUOTE="Alucard-Shat"][QUOTE="musicalmac"][QUOTE="Alucard-Shat"][QUOTE="FoxHoundADAM"]Xbox Live may be the greatest online service of the 3 (can we even say the Wii supports online play at this point?) but I have to say the Wii VC blows away the Arcade.
Microsoft struggles to release even 2 games a month yet Nintendo release 3-4 games a WEEK, and at least one of those is a must buy. Some people say that this is because MS is trying to update the old games and adding online play and new features but all this seams to do is break perfectly good arcade games (SF2 and Contra anyone?).
No doubt the Arcade has some great looking titles coming out (Castle Crashers, Worms HD) but the Wii has only been out for 3 months and it alreayd has a good 30 games more than XBLA and many more "must buys".
loco145
The games released over Arcade are changed or enhanced in some way. Multiplayer, enhanced/retouched graphics, widescreen and HD support, leaderboards, etc.
VC is just a ridiculously overpriced ROM service. Just like the idiots that pay 99 cents for song on iTunes when, let's face it, the music is free. The VC is worse though - because the games cost 5 to ten bucks each!
Paying five to ten bucks for straight up ROMS is idiocy (especially when the actual physical game itself is cheaper 90% of the time,) plain and simple.
Well excuse me for obtaining my music legally. iTunes is a great deal, and they come in the near CD quality AAC format. 9.99 for a CD instead of 17 or more at a record store? You can keep your P2P music... MP3's sound terrible...My analogy was a little bad then, because 5 old NES games that cost a total of 15 bucks on ebay will cost you 25 - 50 on VC.
Ripoff, ripoff, ripoff. Regardless of where you get your music, people HAVE been getting these games for free, perfectly emulated, for several years. I have a buddy that has a modded XBox. I'm not encouraging or condoning piracy here, just stating the simple fact that he does have one - but the thing has every NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, SNES, TG16, Lynz, 2600/5200/7800, Sega CD, GB, GBA, ColecoVision, the original PC Dooms, Hexen, and a few I'm sure I'm forgetting and they're all 100% perfectly emulated. His XBox is worth 1,999,999 dollars according to the VC pricing system.
The sad reality is the VC only seems like a good deal for people who don't know any better. Luckily for Nintendo there seems to be a lot of those people.
Link? What 5 Nes games? Have you considered shipping? The condition of those games? (I bet that all the original battery on LoZ are death by now) and the price for a Nes if you don't have one?Yes, I have. Also, my two original Zeldas are still working perfectly (as of about 4 months ago, the last time I checked.) 99% of NES games are dirt cheap. They average about 2 -3 bucks each even with shipping.
http://cgi.ebay.com/LOT-OF-12-ESSENTIAL-NES-GAMES-All-Tested_W0QQitemZ300075997095QQihZ020QQcategoryZ62053QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Nes-Nintendo-Games-Lot-of-4_W0QQitemZ220076943568QQihZ012QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Those ar the first two auctions that came up. You can spend all day looking at similar auctions.
Be that as it may, the ROMS (which is all Nintendo is selling you) can be had for free. Illegal, yes - but that's the [perhaps unfortunate] reality of the internet. Hell, Nintendo isn't even selling anything physical, they're just overcharging for ROMS. Highway robbery. Like I said, think about "my buddy's" modded XBox. According to Nintendo it's worth about 4 billion dollars.
Please.
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