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08 Dec 2006, 04:26 PM
K3V

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Originally Posted by bVork

They don't let you buy in exact increments so that you always have a small balance in your account, which motivates you to either purchase more points for a game you really want (and leave another balance), or for impulse buys. Evil, but effective.

MS does the same thing. At least 100 VC points= $1 insteand of 80 marketplace points = $1 or something like that on live.
08 Dec 2006, 04:30 PM
magnifiedplaid

I'm going to call my sister up and tell her that she owes me ten dollars right now. I used to own Super Mario 64, but one day she came over to my house about five years ago and "borrowed" it without asking. I haven't seen it since then, and ten dollars to download the game is WAY TOO MUCH!
08 Dec 2006, 04:50 PM
Yoshi

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Originally Posted by Cowdisease

If the VC does not offer online play (I could live without leaderboards, but it would certainly add life to games like Pinbot and Alien Crush), then there is absolutely no point in buying these VC titles. People are crowing that Alien Crush is going to be available for the VC on Monday (at least for the US). You know what? I can play that on my Xbox right now (and I'd rather play Devil's Crush). And I can play just about any game that will be eventually be released on the VC.

I literally went an played a game of Devil's Crush on my Xbox right after reading your post. That game has aged incredibly well.
08 Dec 2006, 05:10 PM
Nash

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Originally Posted by magnifiedplaid

For example, if I bought Bonks Adventure on the VC and I got sick of it after two days....instead of deleting it, it would be neat to sell it back to Nintendo...

Sell it back to Nintendo? Buy-backs work because the item can be resold. Downloadable games don't have a quantity limit nor can they become "used," so there's no need to buy back and resell at a lower price. Nintendo has nothing to gain from "buying back" your downloaded games. The process would really just be them giving you part of your money back (and there's no way that is happening).
08 Dec 2006, 05:15 PM
MechDeus

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Originally Posted by Nash

Sell it back to Nintendo? Buy-backs work because the item can be resold. Downloadable games don't have a quantity limit nor can they become "used," so there's no need to buy back and resell at a lower price. Nintendo has nothing to gain from "buying back" your downloaded games. The process would really just be them giving you part of your money back (and there's no way that is happening).

They could offer it as Nintendo points. Like if you spent 500 points on something you could get back 300 by trading it in, this way you're basically renting the game. They still keep all the money you spent and it helps encourage you to continue spending money, since you're only getting part of what you spent back so you'll have to top it off to get another game to replace it.
08 Dec 2006, 05:32 PM
Cowdisease

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Originally Posted by Yoshi

I literally went an played a game of Devil's Crush on my Xbox right after reading your post. That game has aged incredibly well.

Devil's Crush is still awesome. So awesome, that when I started playing Alien Crush, I just couldn't do it. Devil's Crush blows it away.

While I would prioritize VC online play over leaderboards, it would be nice to have a leaderboard system for the high-score games because it adds an extra incentive to purchase and play those games. I don't think we'll ever see such a system because that requires a central server to store all the scores, and that's an expense Nintendo probably won't want to have.

It would be cool if they made a local Mii Leaderboard where you can query what your Wii friends have scored in a game, and should be easy to implement since the scores on stored in each player's Wii.
08 Dec 2006, 05:48 PM
Razor Ramon

Lol no VC online playability? That 360 is looking might good even though it's $150 extra.
08 Dec 2006, 06:18 PM
Joust Williams

"and should be easy to implement since the scores on stored in each player's Wii."

Are they displayed via a VC GUI or just via the board/score in the ROM savestate?
08 Dec 2006, 06:33 PM
Cowdisease

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Originally Posted by Joust Williams

"and should be easy to implement since the scores on stored in each player's Wii."

Are they displayed via a VC GUI or just via the board/score in the ROM savestate?

What I described was a wish, not an actual Wii feature. If it was a feature, I'd imagine that before you enter the game in the VC, there's an option to see a list of your and your friend's high scores.
08 Dec 2006, 10:28 PM
PKBMax

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Originally Posted by Joust Williams

"Some guys at the Digital Press board are saying that VC games won't have online play or leaderboards because it's too difficult to program and costs too much.

Thoughts?"

hahahahahahaha comes to mind
A microcosm of Nintendo's business strategy. Good for them...bad for gamers.

Too bad "some guys at the Digital Press board" probably don't know a damn thing about what they're talking about.

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