Two new Virtual Console platforms incoming
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 at 11:47pm by Jack
It would seem that Nintendo’s recent web site redesign was more than just for show as two additional spots have appeared on the Japanese Virtual Console page.
Today, there are eight spots in all, with just six spots filled. Ominous greyscale Famicom controllers occupy the empty spots, which wild rampant speculation says will be filled by at least the Sega Master System if there’s anything pure and decent left on this great green earth of ours. The other system is anyone’s guess. Game & Watch? ColecoVision? Two cups and a string?
The mind boggles.
December 18th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
commadore 64 right?
December 18th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
gameboy
December 19th, 2007 at 12:03 am
Virtual Boy.
Kidding.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:08 am
It’ll be the MSX and Sega Master system.
December 19th, 2007 at 12:27 am
GAMEBOY/GAMEBOY COLOR, GAMEBOY ADVANCE!!!!!!!!!
December 19th, 2007 at 12:30 am
I hope for Saturn so I can stop wasting quaters on MvC
December 19th, 2007 at 12:41 am
I wrote this post about the C64 back in September of 2006. I really hope so.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:00 am
A little digging will show that the MSX and TurboGrafx-CD have already been confirmed as on the way. Although it’s possible that the TurboGrafx-CD will be lumped in with the TurboGrafx-16 when browsing for games. Sega Master System seems like a good idea, especially for Europe, where it sold reasonably well, and maybe Sega Saturn, if only for NiGHTS. If they can do TurboGrafx-CD, I don’t see why they can’t do Saturn.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:07 am
My bet goes to Gameboy/color and Sega Master System. It just makes sense.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:22 am
Cephas, you’re a little behind the times. There allready are TGfx CD games “lumped in” on the VC. As a huge shooter fan I’m hoping for the Saturn. Radiant Silvergun (the superior predecessor to Ikaruga) and other games you can’t find anywhere else like Image Fight 2, I would write in Reggie for President next year if he made that happen. I guess he has nothing to do with it though.
December 19th, 2007 at 2:55 am
People, it’s Virtual CONSOLE, not handheld.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:16 am
Damn… I would love Colecovision. One of the best consoles next to SNES.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:21 am
Sega Saturn!!!
Sega Dreamcast!!!!
December 19th, 2007 at 7:02 am
i think msx was confirmed for japan at some point. Aren’t some master system games already in with the genesis already, I’m not totally sure. i’d say with some certainty msx and hopefully game boy.
December 19th, 2007 at 8:18 am
I’d love to see Saturn games, as that was an underappreciated system, but only if Nintendo can get their head out of the clouds and put together a proper storage solution for Wii downloads.
December 19th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Commodore 64 and Intellivision!!!!!! PLEASE!
December 19th, 2007 at 9:05 am
my hope is on 3D0…my dad bought me that system when it first came out, and to date that is my favorite system evar!!!!
December 19th, 2007 at 10:04 am
I asked them about Dreamcast at the E3 2006 launch. The answer from the Virtual Console rep was “maybe” in a very wink-wink kind of way.
I’m planting my hopes there. They should be able to find a way to use the SD card to fit the bigger games. Since Dreamcast games like Rez have been headed to XBOX Live Arcade, I’ve been losing hope. This would be cool. (price depending - I’m not spending $15+ on those old games when there’s about a thousand new games I want)
December 19th, 2007 at 10:07 am
Since MS-X and Commodore64 were previously announced a while back, those two slots probably belong to those systems. Though I would like to see ColecoVision games for (hopefully) cheaper than NES games.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Who gives a hey.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:44 am
virtual boy…
December 19th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Dunno, but I’d much rather hav eNintendo add more to the SNES and N64 as those are my favorite consoles and they’ve barely gotten much.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
Can we please get the original Star Fox first?
December 19th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
@Billman64
I know MSX was confirmed but when was C64 confirmed?
My hope is with you Jack, SMS all the way.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Maybe the Neo Geo?
December 19th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
How is the cave, sharp, since you stayed in it for 3 months?
December 19th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
Atari 2600!!
December 19th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
My vote is for MSX and Master System.
I would bet that there will be a seperate Game Boy channel that allows you to shuttle them to your DS and not play them on the Wii.
December 20th, 2007 at 6:57 am
Well it won’t be the Virtual Boy or the CD-i.
I’m putting my money on a Master System and argh I dunno. I want to say Saturn but there is no way Nintendo would allow Sega to have downloadable Saturn games, they’d fill up the hardrive too quickly and Ninendo knows it.
I’ll go the C64. Yay!
December 20th, 2007 at 8:48 am
And, uh, what hard drive is that exactly?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I doubt there will be Sega Saturn games. There isn’t enough storage on the internal flash memory, add to the fact that the speed of copying games between internal and external flash memory is far too slow.
Personally, give me Master System and C64 games and I will be a happy camper
However, i would LOVE to see them add the ability to pop a Saturn or Dreamcast disc into the slot and play the games right from the discs themselves.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
My moneys on either Master System, C64 or MSX. I wouldn’t think that the Wii is up to the task of emulating Dreamcast or Saturn games decently. Only way you’d see games from those systems is if they were ports.
December 20th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
If it can emulate the N64 without problem, why should the Saturn be any more difficult?
December 21st, 2007 at 2:18 am
I want Atari 2600, too. One more I know would bite the dust I buy Wii. Wiiiii all the way long!
December 21st, 2007 at 5:59 pm
@Andrew-MG:
The N64 and Saturn aren’t on the same level in terms of hardware (even though they were released in the same generation of consoles). The Saturn has a dual CPU design which makes it difficult to get decent performance out of emulators.
December 22nd, 2007 at 2:09 pm
Ah, was unaware of that. I just remember, as an owner of both systems, that the Saturn seemed vastly inferior in terms of horsepower.