DaMadFiddler wrote:
The second, and more important, is that I haven't really come to terms with the notion of commercial digital distribution. I still buy all my music on CD and all my movies on DVD, and rip it all myself. It's higher quality, and the data is more mobile that way. I expect to continue doing this until digital media is easily available DRM-free, in a lossless format, at a significantly lower cost than physical media (as it should be; you're not just paying for the content, you're paying for the security and convenience of a hard copy, as well as the "extras" of having the physical cover art, packaging, and anything artistic or content-wise they may put in the insert).
The quality isn't an issue with the VC (in fact, I'm pretty sure they will have better sound--if nothing else--than the GBA ports I already own), but I am very picky about both price and data portability with anything that is a commercial download. I want it to be in a lossless or otherwise high-quality format (for audiovisual media), I want to be able to back it up at will, and I want to be able to move it between devices. Even my GBA cartridges beat the VC games in that respect; I can play them on my GameCube with the Gameboy Player, or I can take them on the road with my DS. If the Virtual Console offered a way to play 8- and 16-bit titles on the DS as well, I might be less critical. For just the barebones games, which ONLY run on YOUR Wii, have no enhancements, and don't even include manuals or anything else, I don't feel they're a good buy.
this kinda concerns me also. what happens when the next generation comes out ? will we have to keep or wii's hooked up just to play these, or could we register the serial number on the wii and redownload the games to the new console ? what if my wii console dies in 10 years ? repair probably wont be a option, do we lose the 20-30 games we have downloaded ?
great news about mario kart 64. i will definitely get that.
