woohoo .


will game boy games have added color and 3d or just be b/w port

Probably my favorite news from the conference. Pretty excited for 3DS.

I was right all along.

Hey, Nintendo does an obvious great idea! Nice!

Now I can just sit back and wait for someone with very limited technical know-how to insist that all these VC games should have 3D enhancement while maintaining the typical VC pricing.

Actually, they announced that all the GB and GBA games will have 3D enhancement.

Minsih Cap in 3D?

I'm a little surprised there was no confirmation of support from third-party handhelds like the Sega GameGear. Regardless, I am very happy to hear that this pipe dream has at last become reality. Bring on Metroid: Zero Mission, one of the two Metroid games I have not had the pleasure of playing.

I'm pretty sure they only announced GB and GBC games for the VC service.  GBA was notably absent.

Well, I wonder how many years it'll take them to bring the 3DS Virtual Console down to 1 mediocre release every 1.5 months.  Still, everyone asked for it, so it's nice to have it there (though I'm sure the games will be just as overpriced as they are on the Wii VC).

And did anyone else notice that the tagline for this when you highlight the topic is "3DS Will Feature Handheld"?  ;)

Where in the news blurb does it say that?  Do you have a link to such an announcement?

How the hell could they add 3D to old black & white 2D Game Boy games?  How do you make a flat image like a 2D sprite pop out of the screen?  I can't even conceptualize what it would even look like.

Ever seen a Virtual Boy?

This is what Joystiq is saying as well.

Duh!  Brainfart on my end.  ;D

If they want to have pricing consistent with the VC pricing...

$3 for Game Boy, $5 for GBC, $8 for GBA.

If the wii VC is any indication then we will eventually see third party handhelds on the 3DS virtual console. This is one of the mostexciting things about the 3DS and one good reason to buy it. I just hope tht GBA games find their way onto the service. I would love to replay all the good titles for tha console once again.

that would be ridiculous though.

$2 for GB
$3 for GBC
$5 for GBA

sounds much more reasonable.

I wonder how long it will be before they add Game Gear, Lynx, WS, NGP, G.com, VB, PSP.... (yeah I went there :P: )

and if they're gonna do all that, I wonder if eventually there will be NES, SNES, N64, etc etc from the Wii VC shop too

I recently wrote a post where I speculated what consoles and games would be on the service.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=32215.0

I question some of y'all's line of thinking.

Nintendo priced Game and Watch games at $2 on the DSiWare service.  Do you really think Tetris, Super Mario Land 2, Link's Awakening and the Donkey Kong Land titles are worth the same as a Game and Watch game?

That isn't realistic. After licencing and ESRB rating fees, $2 would not produce a profit.

I figure it fits with the Wii VC because NES games are about 10% of their original price. Game Boy games were $30 so that means $3 is 10%. The NES games are also about 60% the price of SNES games at $8; 60% of $5 is $3.

Nintendo is ridiculous though.

I'm just stating what would be reasonable.
$2 for a game and watch is for those people that and that ain't me.
But then again, I'm also not likely to buy any GB, or GBC games so I'm not the intended audience for this service.

I am sure the other portable systems will be added on, just like the newer older systems for the Virtual Console on WII

Consoles for 3DS virtual console:

Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance
Atari Lynx
Game Gear
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Game and Watch
Virtual Boy(3DSware remakes)

Stun Runner 3D = mind blown

Could Atari Lynx even be on the service?

Probably not, but even if it is possible, I don't think there are enough worthwhile games for it to be worth it. You don't see the Atari Jaguar on the Wii Virtual Console.

Would any of you actually buy non-Nintendo portable games?  Seriously I can only think of a very small handful of Game Gear of Neo Geo Pocket Color games that I would consider worth owning.

Whatever the price is it will likely be a little bit higher than we would like.

I'm hoping Nintendo ditches the "single price for all games on the same system" pricing scheme.

A GB game from 1989 (that's not Tetris or SML) isn't worth the same amount as a GB game from 1998.  All games are not created equal.  There's no reason why Nintendo should feel the need to sell them at the same price.

vudu, that makes sense but I figure Nintendo would abuse it.  They would have their normal GB pricing which will be more than what we would pay for Alleyway but a bargain for Link's Awakening and then they would just charge more for the better games.  I doubt they would make the worse games cost less, it would just raise the price of the better.

Right now Urban Champion and Super Mario Bros 3 each cost 5 bucks.  That's a big rip-off for Urban Champion but a perfectly reasonable price for a classic like SMB3.  If they keep a fixed price at least we'll know we'll get a good deal for some of the more rare or exceptional games.

It would be great though if they went the opposite direction and recognized that certain games are not worth the single price.  It would be nice if the pricing was $5 or lower.  But they won't so let's not give them the idea to raise the price of the better games.

I don't think Nintendo will ever ditch the fix pricing scheme that they've used since the NES, they don't even lower the price of their games anymore. Sure, Nintendo has before talked about how games should be priced as what they are worth, but a company like Nintendo think all their games are worth full/high prices.

Is it harder to emualte home console or handheld games?

Whether it is home or portable is irrelevant, it is all about the hardware itself. It wouldn't matter with a console, there'd be no difference between console and handheld, but a handheld would have a more difficult time emulating a home system if the display resolution of the handheld is smaller than the original system.

This is why we wont see home consoles on the 3DS virtual console, right? I would prefer that they just kept the two seperate and offered each a uniqe arsenal of games.

What does a virtual handheld service mean for the wii virtual console? If Nintendo is going to offer VC for a new system, they will have to push it into the main stream and this must mean that they might speed up the wii virtual console once again.

I have a strong feeling that Game Gear and Neo Geo Pocket color games are going to show up on the service. I keep saying it, but I think the slide pad on the 3DS could accomodate NGPC because of the similarity with its D-pad.

I would love to be able to play all the older Nintendo competitor handhelds without having to worry about batteries or back lighting.

If we don't see all console games on here, I wonder if we'll still see TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine games.  The game cards were so small, they were used interchangeably between the TurboGrafx-16 and TurboExpress handheld systems, and Hudson seems to be pushing out their games wherever they can.

If they put console games on the 3DS VC and portable games on the Wii VC then it opens the whole can of worms about transfering games between the two systems.  Ideally if I buy a VC game I should be able to play it on either my Wii or my 3DS.  Well if the two VCs are clearly seperate with no crossover then that doesn't really come up.

Straight GB games will be one price and GBC games will be higher. I can see GBA games, should they ever appear, as the $10 "N64" games of this service.

On a happy note, we might well see Shantae (GBC) release for the service. Capcom would have to get on board, though.

Should they appear? You mean when they appear, right? This is one reason why I want this serive to revisit all the good GBA games. Is there any reason for why they will never appear? I mean the GBA is a handheld SNES and I do not see any problem emulating the system on the 3DS.

I say that because it wasn't specifically announced. Just GB and GBC games were.

There's already GBA games on DSiWare for 800 Reggies, but I could see them moving up to 1000 if it comes to pass.

I'd prefer to see 200 (GB)/500 (GBC)/800 (GBA) in line with DSiWare pricing, though.

Why would they include those consoles and not the GBA?

They might not have the GBA portion ready yet. I'm sure it'll be on the service eventually, but it might not be there day one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSsOTBETVAg

This is a really cool video and shows off a bunch of handhelds. Most of these will end up on the Virtual Handheld service.