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ORIGINAL: Charles_22

Nonetheless, people seem to often buy it with the understanding they can play the old games on it. There are those, also, who don't have the old sytems, I would qualify as such if I were interested in the Wii, who will be disappointed that one of the selling points was largely fictitious.

I wonder if they sell the downloadable old games with a large discount, assuming they don't give owners of old titles a discount? Some people, if they believed the hype, would have also trashed or sold their old console just to save space, since, afterall, this was going to take care of that.

Nintendo made it very clear that the Wii is fully backward compatible to the "Gamecube" and that all the rest of the games work via the "Virtual Console" only and need to be purchased from the classic game archive.

You only need to read the specs of the console. Nothing hidden, no "fictitious" selling points.
If you don't do the reading it is your own fault. Common sense.

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

That would halfway make sense if they would give you a substantial discount for proof that you own the old version that you are downloading, but, instead, if I have read the situation correctly, they mislead you into thinking your old games would work, when the reality is they won't work at all as the customer understands it, because to pay for old games you never owned on one system is a bonus possibility, but for the ones you owned is just a ruse.

Do you get discounts from movie publishers if you want to switch from a VHS title you own to a DVD?

Nintendo did not mislead anybody. It was only talk of the GameCube, and those titles work like a charm on the Wii.

Testreply from my Wii-console , [:'(]

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

ORIGINAL: Charles_22

That would halfway make sense if they would give you a substantial discount for proof that you own the old version that you are downloading, but, instead, if I have read the situation correctly, they mislead you into thinking your old games would work, when the reality is they won't work at all as the customer understands it, because to pay for old games you never owned on one system is a bonus possibility, but for the ones you owned is just a ruse.

Do you get discounts from movie publishers if you want to switch from a VHS title you own to a DVD?

Nintendo did not mislead anybody. It was only talk of the GameCube, and those titles work like a charm on the Wii.

No often you don't get discounts for having a prior format of the very same product, but often you do as well, such as customer reward programs with some software companies and so forth.

Ah, it was only gamecube then? So why would people get all hyped up about all the retro stuff it could play if it's just one system? I thought I heard somebody say it was doing Nintendo 64 too.

So why would people get all hyped up about all the retro stuff it could play if it's just one system? I thought I heard somebody say it was doing Nintendo 64 too.

Because they did not read what Nintendo said and brought in their own wishthinking.

Actually you can play a lot of the classics of the very old systems already via what is called the "Virtual Console". Nintendo ads new titles daily. They need to be bought from the Wii shopping channel and they are reasonably priced. You get classics from 500 - 800 points, 1000 points are 10€ (do not know the $) price. So you can buy Donkey Kong or Frogger for 5 bucks. Which is really okay.

No often you don't get discounts for having a prior format of the very same product, but often you do as well, such as customer reward programs with some software companies and so forth.

Yes, with normal software applications, generally tied to "work". But this is not for platform switches, it is normally for a new revision of the tools that ad new features.

For entertainment you almost never get accounts or "upgrade" offers. At least I do not know of any.
Actually we are one of the very few companies that did this so far for some selected titles. [:D] (shameless advertising)

ORIGINAL: Marc Schwanebeck

So why would people get all hyped up about all the retro stuff it could play if it's just one system? I thought I heard somebody say it was doing Nintendo 64 too.

Because they did not read what Nintendo said and brought in their own wishthinking.

Well... yeah, I admit it: I never read anything about Wii directly from Nintendo itself. I was solely relying information shown on finnish computer magazine and related WWW site.

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