Earthbound coming to US Virtual Console in 2013

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

http://kotaku.com/holy-crap-earthbou...ium=Socialflow

I'll be interested to see how this affects the price of the used physical cart.

[kamakazi5]

Hopefully it will come down to a semi reasonable price now although I won't count on it. I doubt I'll pick it up on VC even if the price doesn't come down.

[Tanooki]

Beautiful! I hope this puts some sanity back into the Earthbound cart price. It's not rare, it's uncommon but not straight common and the $200 it hits is disgusting. Having this not only hit the NTSC market(USA,etc) but also Europe hopefully it will have that rippling effect that cripples the price of the game. FF7 had this same sorry behavior go up until the PSN release hit for $10 and the game CIB and pretty going pretty high went to a tough sell at like $20-30 if I remember right, it cratered!

I'm happy everyone will get a crack at this who wants it now without being raped by greedy resellers who have repeatedly slammed the price even higher feeding off the mighty hype engine it has. Directly it won't affect me as I own the cart, but it would be nice to see cart only costs come down hard for those who don't though I imagine the box and big book guide manual probably will stay up as less of those exist than carts and a digital copy won't get you that either.

[SOL BADGUY]

Man, thats really awesome, I guess they had to see the virtual comments all over Miiverse to finally get it through their thick skulls to rerelease it.

I hope the price of the SNES version goes way down.

[The Adventurer]

Is this only for the Wii U or will the Wii VC get it too?

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Is this only for the Wii U or will the Wii VC get it too?

Wii U, possibly 3DS at Nintendo's discretion.

Wii VC is done I believe.