Why are the old games you can buy for the Wii so expensive

[merynes]

$5 for the original Mario Bros..what the fuck

 

[kookadookalowe]

yeah its lame...i won't buy a wii till someone hacks the roms

 

[Kunmui]

the original was Super Mario Bros. the SNES one was Super Mario World, both had super

although I see that I left that out of the original message

 

[kylieee]

Buying a legit cartridge at a store is going to cost around $5 anyways. For certain hard-to-find games it's great(Super Mario RPG etc goes for $80 on ebay) but the rest is crap.

It also depends where you are. Japan has alot of amazing titles for VC already, whereas North America and Europe are getting very few small retro titles each week.

 

[Adalia]

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[Milky Way]

If you think it's too expensive, don't buy it and they'll get the message. Apparently enough people think the price is fair though.

 

[-ella-]

lol @ you cheap fucks. Teh average 360/ps3 game is $60 (plus sales tax and shipping if your buying online). So for the price of one 360/ps3 game you can buy 12 kick ass old school games and still have some change left. How the fuck is that a bad deal?

 

[*abbienerweinergail*]

downloading roms ftw. someone will hack the wii eventually

 

[installmytv]

When I compared the prices to the local used game shop, VC games were cheaper than their counterparts in most cases.

 

[harmonograph]

if your wii crashes, do you lose all your vc games? i'm assuming you're not able to save the vc stuff to an sd card

 

[Sanam P]

You can save the VC games to your SD card, but to play them from your SD card, you have to re-copy them to the Wii's HD. You can't take the SD card to another Wii and play the VC games either. It has to be on the Wii they were purchased on.

 

[tys_navy91]

so if your wii ever breaks, you basically lose all your VC games too

 

[EMO ANiiME]

Pretty much. I've personally never had any problems with my Nintendo products (aside from blowing on the NES carts) in all the systems I've owned.

 

[vid_a_lou]

I'm not certain, but it's possible that if you attach your nintendo.com account to your new wii console, it may allow you to download the VC titles you purchased.

I'm just guessing because I did join the accounts and when I go online to the mynintendo section it has all the games I've registered and the VC titles + programs I've downloaded on my Wii

 

[FlurryOfDancingSnow]

No. It is linked to your Wii / Nintendo Account. You can download them without cost again after you bought it.

Just talk to Nintendo and they'll take care of it.

 

[cooly]

if this is true...

1. someone create [email protected]
2. everyone chip in $1
3. buy all the games through [email protected]
4. everyone download games ftw

 

[Jade ED]

then that account will have 100+ wiis linked to it

 

[H.B.K fan]

just tell nintendo you broke a lot of wii's

 

[randall_nd]

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[Marlene M]

I think I read you send the wii off for replacement