HAY GUYS

JazzFlight · Nov 24, 2006, 07:06 PM

Yeah, pretty much.

From what I've read, if your console breaks and you send it in to Nintendo, they'll transfer your games to the replacement system.

How ya doing, buddy?

JazzFlight · Nov 26, 2006, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

I know I'd happily bend over for the Virtual Console when Nintendo get Pilotwings 64 up on it. It's one of my favorite games ever.

Exactly the same situation here. I keep hoping that will be one of the next games to be released. I just love the birdman stages where you fly around at your leisure.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

JazzFlight · Nov 26, 2006, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by ramoth

My main point above was that the VC isn't Nintendo's big money maker, nor is it their loss leader -- that would be the console. The general model for console manufacturers is that you sell the console at cost or take a loss and make the money and profit on licensing fees for people who make games (and on 1st party titles, the markup that normally gets passed on for the licensing fee turns into straight profit).

What's even funnier is that Nintendo doesn't take a loss on their console sales, they make a profit.

It was only Microsoft and Sony this gen that are losing money on their hardware sales.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

JazzFlight · Dec 4, 2006, 10:46 PM

UPDATE: Looks like there IS a way to transfer your bought VC games to a replacement console. I found this on the Something Awful forums:

Originally Posted by Something Awful forums

You should add to the OP that even if you get a new Wii, there is a way to transfer your virtual console games. I had to do an advanced replacement (they send you a new unit, you send old broken one back within 21 days) and asked them what they could do about my virtual console games. They asked for the serial number on my Wii and said they could link it to the one they were shipping out. When my new unit was shipped out, the first time I accessed the Wii shop channel it deleted the games I had already downloaded. When the new system got here, I went into the shopping channel and it had all the games I got before as "downloaded," had my existing points left, and was still linked to my nintendo.com account.

How ya doing, buddy?