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Gamers cheered when Nintendo announced the Wii’s virtual console where you can replay console classics on the Wii. At Nintendo’s 67th Fiscal Term meeting Satoru Iwata announced that they have sold over 3.3 million virtual console games, globally. Considering there are around six million Wiis sold, less than half of the Wii owners purchased a game through the virtual console. Hold it! That statistic is incredibly misleading too. Many Wii owners who bought one game probably purchased others. If there was so much excitement for the virtual console how come six million+ virtual console games have not been sold yet? Is the game library lacking? Maybe, but a possible explanation is only approximately 40% of Wii owners have connected their Wii online. You need to go online to shop and if we adjust the numbers there are 2.4 million Wii owners online who can purchase Super Mario Brothers with a click of the remote. Are you part of the 60% camp who hasn’t signed online with your Wii yet? Or are you part of the group who contributed to the 3.3 million paid virtual console downloads?
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3 Responses to “Wii Virtual Console: 3.3 million served”
April 30th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
What I find rather ironic is that as much as people may complain about the high prices for all the Virtual Console games, it’s still raking in plenty of cash for Nintendo.
Of course, this will prevent them from actually lowering any prices for these titles because of the demand, but that’s why we have emulation or playing the games on the actual console they were designed for as an alternative.
April 30th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
I have Golden Axe, Mario 64, Gunstar Heroes and Donkey Kong Country. I think they are all worth the money I paid to download and play them for sure. It would be more expensive to buy them for their original systems and play them that way anyway. I just look at it as a bonus; I have access to retro classics ‘if i want to pay for them’.
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April 30th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Only bought the NES Super Mario Bros and Mario 64 so far, got 500 points left and can’t get anything decent :) I’m trying to spend wisely by waiting for the absolute must own, maybe the SNES mystical ninja..