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For over twenty years since the debut of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Since then, we’ve seen a rich heritage of different platforms, Video Game Consoles and countless games. Wii brings these games to the virtual console.

The Nintendo Wii Game Console lets you play perfect recreations of classic video games on Wii, including favorite NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Turbografx (PC Engine), SEGA MEGA DRIVE and NeoGeo.

Whether you’re a nostalgia fan who wants to relive their childhood memories or a new player wanting to live the successes of the past, the virtual console is your ticket to the game’s history.

A wide selection of games for the console is available for download from the Internet via the Wii Shop Channel. Each game has a price in Wii Points.

Many of the virtual console games can be played with just the Wii remote horizontally, but some titles require the use of additional controls. So there is a command available classic, which includes all buttons and analog sticks to play any game from the virtual console.

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Since the launch of Wii in November 2006, the lack of memory on the console has been one of the most criticized sections of the Nintendo console, something that has to grow with the rise of titles available for download in the Wii Shop Channel and WiiWare. Today at the conference that Nintendo has in the GDC has finally offered a solution to the issue while announcing the new titles for digital distribution platform from Nintendo.

The company today has updated its console with firmware 4.0, which finally allows to download games directly to SD card or to have to boot from it, now may be larger than 2GB fortunately. Saved games are stored in flash memory of the console.

A small cosmetic change will continue to update this because it will have an icon in the bottom left menu and you can save up to 240 titles on the same card. Although it seems somewhat rudimentary it is true that this measure will save the items in more than a hobby, since the Wii has 256 MB which seemed insufficient to say the least given the increasingly strong presence of digital distribution.

The loading times are not too long. Eurogamer says the games that run on the SD is transferred to a temporary flash of the console, which translates to lower load times. In fact, the NES games loaded in a couple of seconds while titles such as Nintendo 64 will be close to fifteen seconds.

Final Fantasy for a while

Along with the announcement of this settlement claimed Nintendo has made the arrival of three Final Fantasy games of the World to the Virtual Console and WiiWare, if one was not enough torture. So Wii owners can delight, upon payment, to the aftermath of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years, returning to enjoy a Square-Enix franchise that repeats and repeats ad infinitum .

For further squeeze every penny of unsuspecting fans of the company responsible for Kingdom Hearts, has also announced the arrival of the original Final Fantasy on the Virtual Console, but as usual for now only available in Japan. We will continue to report.

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In one of his many statements, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter said that the public does not care about Wii games, which leads to a lack of information that ends up leaving the consumer without a criterion for choosing the most appropriate title, guided usually choose a brand known for its acquisition.

The fame of the product is more important for sales of the software that the quality of Wii games.

“The Wii audience is not sophisticated enough to know whether they are buying the game is comparable to, say some, or LittleBigPlanet Gears of War, because they probably do not own an Xbox 360 or PS3.”

“They buy Wii games to buy for the same reason that people go to McDonald’s. McDonald’s does not win many prizes from the critics but restaurants are accessible, consistent and you know what you will serve. ”

“Nintendo has become a fast-food machine. Sony is a much more prestigious restaurant. And Microsoft is something in between, “said the analyst.

The truth is that in his opinion, it is attractive enough and a cover name or a particular concept to convince the visitor that this is the title you must purchase:

“If the concept is right, if the recognition factor is there, if you are attracted by what is in the box, sometimes the game does not have to be equally good to sell.”

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It’s time for all Nintendo fans to rejoice. Nintendo’s family friendly home consoles are getting a new addition. And it may be here sooner than you think.

Satorua Iwata, the platform holder’s president, admits that the company is working hard on a follow-up to the Nintendo Wii.

Iwata adds that the current designs are having to be “throughly vetted” before they are ready.

Iwata made the following comment:

“The hardware team started work on the next thing as soon as they were done with their previous project, but what they think up doesn’t necessarily become a product.

We only turn something into a product after it’s been thoroughly vetted inside the company.”

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