Nintendo: VC announcements are our turf
by JC Fletcher 
on Aug 5th 2008 10:00AM
Seeking some kind of explanation or justification for the disparity between VC releases as
announced by
publishers -- which would have given us
Mega Man, Samurai Shodown II, and
Ys Book I & II -- and the
actual releases (two games that aren't any of those), GoNintendo's RMC contacted Nintendo. Their response failed to shed any light on the motivation for the change, or anything other than that Nintendo is
just not interested in explaining themselves:
"A number of variables can affect a game's release date," according to the statement. "Therefore, the Wii-kly Update is the only authority for confirmed release dates of Virtual Console games." So ... Hudson's website, SNK's press release, and Capcom's blog were all just
wrong? Or was Nintendo teaching those publishers an important lesson about presuming to know when
their games are coming out? We're sure they've learned their lesson by now.
