Quote Originally Posted by treismac View Post
If Nintendo's Wii U online store is as pitifully weak as the Wii's, you can count me out until they're practically giving the system away five to six years from now. Apart from Neo-Geo games, how many arcade games came out on the Virtual Console? Like 15? Inexplicably, I never saw Contra or Bionic Commando make their way to the NES' Virtual Console, and NOA's chief douche bag, Reggie, mocks the idea of ever bringing Earthbound to the Virtual Console. Overall, Nintendo fumbled in the downloadable world with the Wii and I haven't read anything to assuage my concerns over the same being the case with the Wii U.

Honestly, I kinda hope Nintendo gets a wakeup call with the Wii U in terms of lackluster sales, causing them to pull their head out of their ip filled arse and make the kind of "duh" decisions that are needed to keep from unnecessarily alienating and frustrating gamers.

Bleh... I'm starting to feel extra crabby from the flu vaccine I just got so I'll quit my bitching.
The virtual console should have been absolutely flooded with games. There must be some prohibitive factor involved in getting third party games up there because we should be seeing much more than we do. For example, why isn't every SMS game on there? It seems to me that putting a game up there is a relatively cheap and easy thing to do. There's no manufacturing or r and d cost. That said, I do enjoy a fair amount of the offerings on the vc. I just wish there were more.

The eshop is ass right now as well. There are only about 5 games on there that aren't retail releases, and none of them look that cool.

I did read in game informer that they are planning to get virtual console games playable on the tablet, but there's no mention of when that's going to happen.