Where does your money go from Wii VC downloads?

[rkotm]

Does it go to the publishers AND Nintendo i assume? But take say Donkey Kong Country. Where does the money go since Rare isnt with Nintendo anymore? And some programmers left certain companies, so some people dont get anything from the download who made the game? I dunno why i ask these questions, just wanted to know who pockets what in the end and if it makes a difference to pay for a game when you dunno who it goes to and if a game is discontinued.. of course its about playing the damn downloads in the end but just curious.

[PingvinBlueJeans]

Does it go to the publishers AND Nintendo i assume?

You mean "the developers and Nintendo"...in most cases, Nintendo is the publisher. Hard to say really, it all depends on the contracts and the deals that were worked out when these games were initially developed and published. As far as Rare not being afiliated with Nintendo anymore, it doesn't matter much...they still would have to maintain some kind of royalty agreement.

[ProgrammingAce]

It's all very complicated, and it differs from game to game. A certain percentage will always go to Nintendo, the rest goes to some combination of the license holder, the publisher and the developer. In many cases either the developer or the publisher are out of business so the mony strictly goes to the licensee (and the cut to ninteny).

In most cases, i'd imagine the person who actually coded the game will never see a dime of the money. Though, i don't really see that as a bad thing, they were already paid once for their work.

[Poofta!]

id say that all the games there, the publishing and [copy]rights are owned by nintendo, so only nintendo gets the the money.

programmers, unless they own the Intellectual rights (almost never), dont receive a penny outside of their salary during creation.

[Melf]

I'd imagine that NEC sees something for allowing its catalogue to be sold, as does Sega. Nintendo definitely gets a share though. Individual programmers and developers don't see a dime I bet.

[Poofta!]

I'd imagine that NEC sees something for allowing its catalogue to be sold, as does Sega. Nintendo definitely gets a share though. Individual programmers and developers don't see a dime I bet.

oh right, i forgot the markwiiplace is no longer just nintendo, yes nec and sega get a good portion of hte profit. programmers never get a dime, thats absolutely certain.

[rkotm]

i see now, much clearer on this. could the saturn work on the VC or is the emulation too slow, yet if it were like Bleem(A DC or PC emulating a PSX) and was backed by developers..thats another topic for another decade.


and the C64 downloads..in europe only? how much per game? i have several hundred c64 disks and i wish i had another C64 SX.. wonder if the US will get C64 support.

[Neil Koch]

The C64 is in Europe only right now, and the games are 500 points each.

As for the Saturn, I don't think it's a matter of being able to emulate the games, it's more of the size of the games being too big for the Wii's puny HD.

[ProgrammingAce]

one saturn game would be bigger then the entire storage inside the Wii. Even if you compressed the music into MP3's it's impractical. Same for dreamcast really.