The eShop....

readyletsgo

I have lost total interest in the eshop since it was brought online last year.
Gameboy games are great an all, but after playing and finishing a few downloaded GB games in an hour or two I just see it as a waste of space, great to have yes, but not worth over €4 for such OLD games.

What I want to know is, when will they release Super Mario 1, 2, 3, and World on there(Allstars)? I know they are from the SNES, but they are really the only games I would pay €10 each for no problem, but typical Nintendo will never release them on the eshop. Or will they...

Will they ever release them on the eshop or is the eshop only for old handheld systems/games and the NES or will they branch out to the SNES Mario Allstars?

I know GBA Mario's will come out at some stage but these games should be on the eshop now, there for everyone to buy now not in a year or two, there's money to be made, how do they not see this.

Yes I know I could just buy a snes/wii and play them there, I have them, I want them on my 3DS now.

PS: I did buy some of the other games on there too, pullblox and stuff, they are good games tbf.

Rant/:rolleyes:

boiledeggs

Would love to see a similar thing like the vita will have where I can play the classic games I downloaded for ps3 on the vita, but I would say is defiantly asking too much of nintendo for that

readyletsgo

boiledeggs wrote: »

Would love to see a similar thing like the vita will have where I can play the classic games I downloaded for ps3 on the vita, but I would say is defiantly asking too much of nintendo for that

Yeah totally, Ninty can be very slow in these things, I'm sure as a company they are very aware they can make a lot of money putting their good games up on the eshop right away from all the system, SNES and NES and GBA (please not GB/C, they are rubbish and too short now)

Sony win in this situation hand down!

will they ever pokemon red/blue/yellow/silver/gold/crystal on there

i bet they never will

boiledeggs

boiledeggs wrote: »

Would love to see a similar thing like the vita will have where I can play the classic games I downloaded for ps3 on the vita, but I would say is defiantly asking too much of nintendo for that

:mad: i had to go to the trouble to set up a us psn acocunt and buy a 20 dollar psn code just to get spyro 1,2 & 3 becuase someone in sony europe said no

Mr E

They dropped the ball with the whole VC implementation, to be honest (since the Wii launch).

They have a treasure trove of games to choose from on lots of platforms - enough there to release a GOOD game or two every week. Instead, the releases are very patchy (a few per month) and the games they choose are far from stellar.

Don't bring up the price either. Charging that much for emulated games leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

megaten

The eshop definitely needs a lot of work. It's ridiculous that the systems been out for a year and they still don't have at least one new 3DS eshop game out a week.

readyletsgo

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will they ever pokemon red/blue/yellow/silver/gold/crystal on there

i bet they never will

This is what I mean. I am not a Pokemon fan at all, but there are MILLIONS of fans for these old games, they could just have a Pokemon month and release 2 of the games a week(updated or not) and people would buy them on day one and people who buy there 3DS a few weeks/months/years later will still buy them as THEY ARE ON THE BLOODY ESHOP ready to buy! Its beyond me...

Thank god I am not the only one who feels that the eshop is a terrible hot mess.

One GB game every few weeks/months, DSi games the odd time and the very odd time a small 3DS game just doesnt cut it now-a-days. Not on Nintendo!!!! Not on.

Kinski

People are always using Pokemon to suggest what Nintendo should be doing - "Should be on the VC"; "Should make a proper big budget home console version"; etc. - but it's not that simple. They don't own exclusive rights to the franchise (maybe 1/3 of it, IIRC) so can't entirely determine the direction it takes themselves.

But the eShop sucks big time. The VC should boast scores of classic SNES games at low prices (and not just the obvious Mario and Zelda titles; there are plenty of games from the 16-bit era which really hold-up, including some things that never developed into franchises, such as UN Squadron.) And why not give stuff like Super Mario Bros. 3 (screw World, 3 was best :P) a 3D makeover? Instead, like the Wii, the VC is pretty barren. Nintendo are making lots of noises about embracing online, but the evidence so far doesn't support the claim.

Banjo

UN Squadron doesn't belong to Nintendo any more than Pokemon (in fact a damn sight less. It was a Capcom arcade box originally) - I know it's just an example, but I'm using it too Ninty are sticking to releasing games that minimise the amount of licensing and negotiation needed, so primarily homegrown titles and titles owned by the companies that made the other consoles they emulate. As such the pickings are very much slimmer that they might otherwise be. Given the age of the consoles I'm sure the rights to most of the non-current properties have been scattered to the winds and would be a bitch to iron out now, assuming you could track down the current owners, and even if you did how would you turn a profit? Oh yeah, by charging €10 for the game on the VC

valleyoftheunos

+1 to Banjo

the Licencing issues on VC games will be very complex, it would be necessary to establish who owns the various rights to a game now, not easy if the games were released 20-15 years ago.

After figuring out who owns what rights, and it could be a number of different parties, it would probably to be established what rights are needed now and only then can the negotiations as to getting those rights be started.

To pick a hypothetical example of a 3rd party game on the Megadrive, find out who had the publishing rights in 1992, do they still exist? were they taken over? sold? broken up? Do the developers or anyone else have any residual rights? And finally what about SEGA, they are going to have some sort of rights too given the game was on their system. Releasing the game as a Download on emulated hardware might even involve an entirely new bundle of rights which was never contemplated originally leading another complication. So then everyone has to agree terms (ie who gets paid what) so that the game can be published, its a contract law nightmare! or dream depending on how you look at it:D.

To be honest I'm amazed any games get released at all!