@Adrock
Eventually, Nintendo has to do something to bring excitement to their system and I'd love it if they would push some VC love.
-Local multiplayer is tough to get now for these old systems. Online multiplayer should be a standard add-on for these VC games (even if they make you pay another $2 for it).
-These games should have filter options like current emulators do. Want 1080p upscaled it should do it. Want neon colors to replace the in game colors? You should be able to do it. These are things that any emulator should do.
-They should release additional levels (for a fee of course). So those Mario 3 levels on the GBA ecards? Those should be available for purchase. I even think they should make new levels available for some of their popular games. $5 for Mario 3 world 9 add-on with new Bowser battle would sell like crazy and move VC sales of the original if that were a requirement to buy the add-on stuff.
-Pricing just needs to be looked at. Okay, so Nintendo doesn't want to give cross-pay for free? At least have the discount option available when you purchase. Pay $8 for LOZ Wii U and they you can pay $2 for the 3DS version. Cross-play is a huge opportunity that's missed. That and Steam has many Genesis games (and some SNES ports Mega Man X) for $5 or under. I have no problem with Nintendo charging $9.99 for Earthbound. But seriously this $5 for NES Baseball has got to stop. It's turning VC into a joke. If they want to release it fine, but $1.99 should be the price point, and it should be released alongside a good game so it doesn't kill VC momentum.
I love retro gaming. I went in big with the original VC before realizing that I didn't like Nintendo's trickle pace and I didn't like the fact that bunches of games weren't going to get released. Since then I've spent probably $2,000 on retro games/systems largely ignoring the VC games available. Surely I can't be the only one willing to spend coin on these older games and I wish Nintendo would give them the time of day.
That's the big problem with the GBA releases. Yes, they are a good selection of games. Multiplayer isn't a huge deal since most probably didn't use it much. But as most fans of Nintendo, I already own all of the games on this list that I want for GBA. Why should I purchase it on my Wii U? Oh, and my GBA games are cross play compatible on the Gameboy player and my DS. Some people may have put their gamecube away, but I still have mine hooked up. They need to add value to these games if they expect them to get people to get excited about them.