Nintendo: 200 Virtual Console Games By Year's End

Two hundred games will be available on the Wii's Virtual Console classic game download service by the end of 2007. That's a bit of data from the Reggie speech that's been getting thrown around recently.

There are currently 166 titles available on Virtual Console in the US. There are eight Mondays left in 2007. That means Nintendo will have to release an average of 4.25 games per week to hit their year-end target.

[Guardian0fPeace]

Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, and DK64 are brought onto VC, can't believe they haven't been already!

[snoop_dizzle]

yeah i really want goldeneye. DK64 is cool too. and i also want jet force gemini.

[Malkier]

Hopefully they will have some decent titles soon.

[Fux4Bux]

200 overpriced ROM downloads? No way! Seriously this is so pathetic. Could easily release every one ever made just as easily as I can download them all for free. I can't believe Nintendo gets away with charging so much for something so cheap.

[eclipsegryph]

Ever heard of a couple of little things called "legality" and "morality"?

[Grassroots]

while I'm all for about 25 of those titles, the rest are a waste of resources to many (I know not all)

[Shaka2K6]

They could release of all those roms on a single Blu-ray disk, nes,snes Sega Genesis and n-64 roms.

so who buys a new console to play old games anyways? it would make alot more sence on hand helds or phones.

[Grassroots]

look I'm a big blu-ray nut, but come on no need for some comment like that. These games are needed to be played on their original console if anything!

[TheExodus]

Blu-ray is actually quite dead, as is the PS3. Sony wasn't planning to make an official announcement because they thought the hints would be enough:

• Cell operations sold to Toshiba
• New PS2 next year

[snoop_dizzle]

like ocarina of time, goldeneye(i wish) dk64(not on yet) and a few others. But yeah its pretty overpriced.

[darthv72]

Neo Geo was a blessing in disguise. Now they need to expand the support for even more systems that have cart based roms. Games from the supergrafx, 32x, GB/GBC/GBA, 2600-jaguar. Maybe even add in direct disc playback of cd titles from systems like sega cd, turbo duo, 3do.

There are emulators that allow you to use the real disc and play the game ala-bleem style of software. The wii could do that and open the door to saturn and cd32 games.

One can only dream......

[Rooftrellen]

I can agree with all of those except the GBA.

They need GBA games like they need GC games. Both can be played on consoles currently on the market.

However, expanding their library to include many, many more consoles, if they could, would be truely awesome.

[darthv72]

my bad. Considering the DS can play the GBA games I got a little carried away. I do think that adding in handheld systems like the lynx, gamegear, neogeo pocket and maybe even actual arcade roms would really help to expand the virtual console. That is the whole idea behind a "virtual console"

[ItsDubC]

If Saturn games are released on VC, I will be downloading VC games for the first time. Panzer Dragoon, Guardian Heroes, Shining Force, Baku Baku, Sega Rally, VF2, Virtual On... OMG why did get rid of my Saturn?

[IntelligentAj]

I find it hilarious that they can charge for all these games. Most of the ROM's that I have I downloaded(and yes I have the original games, Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time and Perfect Dark)are easily found online. Although it doesn't surprise me too much because most people aren't aware of emulators. If they can get away with it...why not? Rock on Nintendo!!

[MyNutsYourChin]

...and still no mention of a hard drive. One would think Nintendo would listen to its supporters and GET A F*CKING HARD DRIVE ALREADY!