Nintendo backs off of bringing Super Nintendo games to Wii U

Engadget:

Bad news for Super Nintendo fans: your Wii U fix is about to dry up. Nintendo's Virtual Console, the download service offering older games on its consoles and handhelds, has never had the most robust selection. With Nintendo turning its eye towards N64 games, though, SNES releases are being left behind. According to Natsume, a publisher with a plethora of SNES games primed for re-release, Nintendo is done with 16-bit for now.

[RmanX1000]

I'm sure they'll come back to it at some point. I think it's a bit early to jump the gun and say they're done with SNES VC just because one company doesn't have their games on it right now.

[Concertoine]

But why would Nintendo prevent other publishers from profitting off of their classic titles? I would buy Pocky and Rocky in a heartbeat. It doesnt take much for them to profit when these games cost like 8 bucks.

[RmanX1000]

I don't know... I'd buy it too, and it's extremely dumb to not let them put it onto the VC. But I think just claiming they're done with SNES is a bit rash right now.

[N4g_null]

Wow you all got trolled by a dead publisher. Snes games are coming out next week lol. Anything to hate the wiiu huh?

[3-4-5]

Source ?

[gamingpro]

Gud, as much as I love all Nintendo consoles, I'm ready for some n64 and GameCube games

[curtis92]

Wouldn't you rather have more new games to look forward to? I swear everyone talks about how this is the 'remastered' generation... but nintendo's been doing that for generations. And they're not even remastered, just re-releases. But I guess that's okay because nostalgia always wins with Nintendo.

[themonado]

Are you trying to say that they can't put old games on the e-shop while also making new games? Seriously?

[XXXL]

Nintendo is retarded

[LOL_WUT]

One of the main reasons why I bought the system was for its VC i hated the idea of using emulators. After the Wii U I'm done supporting this service ;)

[XXXL]

I'm with you I'm tired of nintendo's idiotic decision making.

[StevenSeagul]

The younger people would think they look too old to play anyway, while the older people are likely still playing them on emulators on their PCs and wouldn't pay for them.

[Xof]

A lot of older gamers bought a Wii just for the Virtual Console.

You'd think Nintendo would be working hard to make the VC service better on the WiiU since they're having so much trouble with new games, but I guess not.

[InTheZoneAC]

yup, my primary reason for buying the wii/wii u was for VC and a few select first party games.

[bit-crusherrrr]

Why nintendo dont have their entire back cat out for the nes, snes and 64 on the wii u is beyond me, make emulator release roms. done. easy money.

[Alex_Boro]

They should just focus on bringing actual Wii U games to the system

[Dunban67]

I think they are focussing on getting mobile games to I pads right now- Maybe they will release SNES games there too

[stragomccloud]

No no no! Natsume! I need Lufia on my virtual console!

[InTheZoneAC]

it takes them 3 years to start building the VC on the wii u, yet it seemed like they had everything we wanted on the wii within 12 months

nintendo is slowly fading away and having one guy do the VC updates isn't the smartest thing.

VC and a few other games are the reason why I have a wii u...also waiting for that great zelda game(hopefully it doesn't suck like Twilight Princess)

It's not hard at all to carry VC games from the Wii over to the Wii U. And don't tell me about the stupid Wii channel...

[MSBAUSTX]

Twilight princess was a a literal 10 on some reviews and one of the better LOZ games! I am pretty sure you just dont like LOZ games if you thing Twilight Princess sucked.

[Benjaminkno]

Twilight was really good.

[BladerunnerZX]

I was going to buy a Wii U for the virtual console.
The Super Nintendo is my favorite game console
With my favorite games like Super Metroid and a Link to the past.
I won't be getting a Wii U now.
Nintendo is dead to me for many reasons and this is the last nail in the coffin.

[tjg59]

Why both of the games you can play on wii u

[Benjaminkno]

No, you don't understand.

Hate WiiU because, logic!

[stragomccloud]

You should know though, you can still buy tons of 16 bit games on the Wii's virtual console through the Wii U in Wii mode. So..... It's all already there. Also, Link to the Past and Super Metroid are already available. As are tons of Megaman and Castlevania games!

[roboshort]

I can kind of understand your feelings. I think the Virtual Console for the Wii/WiiU/DS should all be integrated into one. And think Nintendo is making a mistake by not working hard to do that. Nintendo is releasing really good games, though, so I don't see why you consider it dead. There is only so much Nintendo can do. The WiiU is able to play games from every Nintendo system except for the Virtual Boy, 3ds, and Gamecube now so it still does have a lot going for it.

[Servbot41]

Blatant lies. http://www.nintendolife.com...
SNES games were just released yesterday. Natsume is just a garbage publisher these days.

[Dunban67]

So the contact from Natsume is lying? That s a real rational/mature thing to say. Why in the world would they lie about that? It is always possible it is a mistake but i bet they know a whole lot better than you and anyone else disputing it- In any event there is no reason for them to lie.

As far as the games releases this week and/or next, they were probably already in the pipeline- It sound like they are not taking any more new titles for the SNES but i m sure they would complete any they had already began work- That is a much more reasonable explanation than "They are lying"

OR maybe they are trolling you and other Nintendo apologist

[RzaDaRazor]

Nintendo should just release their entire backlog of games and they would make billions of dollars. But they are Nintendon't.

[PaulKersey]

Just get a Super Everdrive or SD2SNES and don't be at the mercy of what Nintendo feels like releasing.

[DoggyBiscuit]

This article is bullshit they no prove of this, is like they say don't believe everything you read on the internet

[Coachkeys]

Disappointing because I really wanted to play super mario rpg on the gamepad. But excited for n64 games as well... I hope this means Mario Sunshine in the near future.

[KryptoniteTail]

Nintendo ALWAYS does this. They can't run a proper VC for s***. They barely touched the surface of what fans want. Gotta give them props for Earthbound, it was about damn time, but they did it. That gave me hope they would do it right this time but I guess it fall to NX to do so.

Hopefully 3DS starts getting better VC support itself.

[jonrhoades87]

They're handling of the VC has been garbage. You can thank Dan Aldeman for alot of this, moved VC off to the side to push wiiware shovelware and Indies. He's also responsible for the drip-feed tactic that we deal with. Whoever succeeded him isn't any better.

note: I have no problem with Indies ;)

[Geekman]

I'm not as mad as I should be. The only SNES game I wanted that they didn't offer was Super Mario RPG. So if they wanna focus on N64 then that's fine with me.

Yeah, sorry, I'm an optimist.