/v/ - Video Games

Well, that kinda sucks. At least there's all the other options for portable emulation.

>>14757405

Yeah, I'm probably gonna get a GPD Win 2 when the price drops a bit.

The Switch might still be a very viable console, but only because is might become a I'd-like-to-interject tablet. If Dolphin or other emulators will work on it, it has more potential than Ninty gives the thing.

>Virtual Console is dead

<under the Virtual Console banner

That is because they are now called

Nintendo Classics

instead of Virtual Console

Hope you enjoy paying for those NES games again under the new subscription system, goyim.

Honestly, playing Nintendo games with a Xbox 360 controller feels better and more ergonomic than playing on a Nintendo device. And it's free, too.

>>14757428

Make sure you get the old one, the new one's bios tries to prevent you from installing linux

Member when they would put NES games in Animal Crossing? Or include the original Metroid as a bonus to the GBA remake? All of that died in 2006 when it became more profitable to sell them at inflated prices individually.

>>14757724

>Member

Get the fuck out.

Good. The emulation for VC systems ranged from decent (SNES, Genesis, GBA) to outright dogshit (N64 and the fucking NES for some reason) and wasn't worth the inflated prices to pay what you can do for free elsewhere. It was also obvious Cucktendo didn't plan ahead with licensing roms for digital distribution, hence why by 2008 we went from 5 games a week, to a couple, to eventually 0 games uploaded during a week.

Is there any other company that gets away with reselling ancient shit from the 8bit era without a single upgrade or change, nearly as often as Nintendo does?

Always pirate games.

Never buy.

"Under the Virtual Console Banner"

So they're probably renaming it to some other bullshit.

>>14757494

Yes thank you master, please release more locked down hardware ROM collections so I can pay for them

Retroarch has a working switch port.

Won't be too long until it's released.

If you bought a switch you deserve to be hanged upside down and beaten with gangrenous testicles.

>>14757397

This is so they have an excuse to sell you the games you already bought digitally again. In turn, whatever name they give the Switch's not-Virtual Console will get called something else on a future system.

I warned you about buying ROMs, bro.

>can emulate every VC game on PC or other consoles if you really want to play them

>everyone bitched about prices and release frequency when VC actually was active

>eshop users would just spend all their money on VC games released a hundred times already instead of good new releases which deserve the money more

Honestly this is a once in a blue moon smart move on Ninty's part

Suppose NES classic bit them in the ass. Nobody wants to spend $5 on one NES game anymore. Now the question is whether or not online subscription will be the only way to play Nintendo's old games or not?

Pretty sure a non-subscription alternative with VC prices will be possible. However idiots will see the better value in buying subscription anyway. So they may as well have a Nintendo Classic offline subscription, which could cannibalize online subscription.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Fuck paid online!

>>14758755

That happened before the classic. Most people would still pay that much for the big games, but then there's Urban Champion, Pinball and a bunch of obscure shit that no one cares for, that costs just as much as the big games. I think their model now will be to sell the classic/mini line and make shekels off of that, and then also make profit off of their online, and to attempt to justify the price, they'll give you old games as a "bonus".

>>14758775

A Netflix style model is really the only option Nintendo has at this moment for ROMs. Problem is that model is dependent on the number of Switch owners to be profitable. The initial games right now are free with subscription. However I do expect a Nintendo Archive subscription fee to be introduced once they announce more games.

Doesn't matter since HB is coming very soon. Nintendo can do what the fuck they wan't to, i give 0 shits and soon 0 dollars.

>>14757471

Or I can spend 5 minutes and download any number of NES game compilations for free at no cost to myself. If I really wanted to spend money, I can just dump the roms onto a SNES classic or something

>>14758863

This obviously isn't meant for people who pirate everything

>>14757676

Not with that shitty dpad. The worst thing about the 360 controller.

It's still there, just renamed to Nintendo Classics I think.

Meanwhile you can emulate any of this on a toaster on the PC with any controller that has a USB extension. *No really why does this matter or even deserve a thread other than to have one more reason to dislike Nintendo?**

>>14759069

>fucked up spoiler

brb hanging myself.

>>14759069

Remeber the paying for roms implication? That's the one thing I will repeat over and over again. VC was worthless unless you believe that you need a legal copy of some rare game.

This is why we have emulators, people.

>>14758995

In less cancerous times copying works older than 10 years old was called "exercising your right to using the public domain."

This is a notion that needs to come back. Yeah, maybe it isn't a good idea not to pirate new games from companies you love, but there is no good argument against sharing copies of works more than a generation old.

>>14759194

'good idea to pirate

>>14759194

>10 years

>public domain

Jesus, the average IQ here is abysmal.

At least the NES and SNES mini emulation was better than what we got with the virtual console. Once they're hacked they act as decent alternatives and have high quality controllers too.

>>14757397

why does this bother anyone you can emu on a phone gameboy to advance and nes snes n64 gamecube easily on a pc as well.

>>14759305

It's kind of decent if you get a cheap one second hand. The controllers that came on the S/NES mini are pretty good, but you can also use them on a Hacked Wii, which is much more convenient and you can use it on a CRT (if only there was a way to plug them directly into the console instead of doing it via WiiMote. There are custom-made adapters for plugins real SNES controllers into the Gamecube port of the Wii, but those are kinda expensive to come by (I still want one, though)

Why do you care if they make a few shekels off of idiots if they are making quality new vidya? Seriously. As long as they keep releasing new quality games like Odyssey I don't care.

>>14759286

> I Don't Know What Public Domain in America Started Out As So I Will Just Insult Someone: The Post

Really it should be an even shorter term considering how much quicker works become widely used by the public.

>>14760508

Clearly you're unfamiliar with Nintendo carpet bombing romsites with DMCA notices every few years, Nintencuck.

>making quality new vidya?

But they aren't.

u was gonna buy pokemon red or blue then they dont have them anymore wtf….

they have silver crystal and gold only?

>>14760971

>Carpet bombing rom sites

>Using surface web for rom downloading

>not using torrrents

>not using torrrents of entire system libraries

>>14760508

Because if they can make more money fleecing retards they'll do that instead of making quality software since they're a fucking company.

>>14760971

As if there aren't a trillion romsites on the net. Not to mention torrents.

>>14757484

>Classics

This.

>>14760993

Because who wants to get just one rom of an ancient game through a quck web search, amirite?

>>14759069

Don't even need a controller. Many classic games play perfectly fine on keyboard.

>>14761010

>As if there aren't a trillion romsites on the net.

t. retard who doesn't know how many sites are scarred shitless after soytendo cucked Emuparadise.

>torrents

Are sometimes still incomplete, plus many still use shit like smc instead of sfc files SNES roms.

They're making VC more convenient, which is smart.

Adding online play is something they should've done since they started VC.

>>14761190

I don't give a shit. I have absolutely no problem finding roms.

>>14761165

Well I only mention it for the autists who want the same control scheme like me

>>14761278

It was good tbh.

>>14766387

not really

>>14766387

>selling roms using emulators that are nearly a decade behind PC emulators

>good

kys tbh

>>14761126

>Download entire system libary

>Slap it on a flash drive

>Have literally every game you would want whenever you want even if you delete it

>>14761194

What is that last word he's saying?

>>14761251

It's pretty shit on 6th gen console emulation, N64 is a shitshow but everything else fairly decently. I'd personally go with the GPD Win 2 instead tbh

>>14761186

Don't expect any Rare titles outside of Donkey Kong 64. That said Gameboy and Color mini is most likely to come out next.

>>14757914

Why? All games on it are free.

>>14758095

They have Google spyware in the UI just like $ony though.

>>14770788

They aren't free though.

nice

>>14770788

I can't even read this sentence as correct even in some sort of delusion.

>>14770568

"You play as Jason Schreier. Restoring Israel."

>>14787899

Oy vey.