You know, we try our best to cover the Virtual Console downloads for you all every week (see: VC Monday Madness), but the state of things on the VC really aren't fair to consumers right now. Nintendo asks us all to pay a lot of money for these games (which was the general consensus determined by you, the awesome reader), so is it not fair to allow us to download a demo of said game before contributing our precious money for the product?So Nintendo, you want to make these retro classics available to a new audience, this same audience who's probably never even heard of these games before? How are they to be interested at all if they can't even try before buying? Nintendo expects us to just toss away $5 bucks for the chance of a good Virtual Console game? Sounds like highway robbery to us ...
Also, take into account the folks who have been faithful to Nintendo all their lives, never owned a Sega Genesis or TurboGraphx16. Hudson and Sega are making their libraries of older games available to a new audience, but if they've never heard of or played these games before, what's to make them spend money on, again, the chance of a good retro game?
What do you guys think? Obviously this change needs to happen and with Nintendo being so secretive about the figures (number of games downloaded, total revenue earned from the service, etc.), we're thinking they might not be selling so many VC games. So could we expect this necessary change (or new Channel) to come in the near future?
We'd suggest starting an online petition, but we know how effective those things are ...
