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UPDATE: Original Virtual Console Games ‘WiiWare’: CONFIRMED
17 years ago

UPDATE: Original Virtual Console Games ‘WiiWare’: CONFIRMED

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Newsweek’s N’Gai Croal has the exclusive on the new Wii Channel that will allow us to finally download original Virtual Console games. Nintendo has finally gone on record saying that both major publishers will be involved as well as indie developers! Even Nintendo themselves are working on original games to launch the service. Here’s some more details:

On Wednesday morning, Nintendo will officially announce to the general public its plans for WiiWare, downloadable games for the wildly popular Wii videogame console. Unlike the vintage games already being offered for legacy systems (i.e. Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx 16) through the Virtual Console, these games will be built specifically for the Wii and sold via the Wii Shop Channel for Wii Points currency, much like the Xbox 360- and Playstation 3-specific games being sold on Xbox Live Arcade and Playstation Network.

UPDATE: Here’s the official press release from Nintendo –

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WII HITS YET ANOTHER MAJOR MILESTONE: 100TH CLASSIC GAME ADDED TO VIRTUAL CONSOLE

Gamers Worldwide Already Have Downloaded More Than 4.7 Million Retro Games, at a Rate of 1,000 an …
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Mario Strikers Charged updated fact sheet

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We Posted this Earlier. Just wanted to post the Press Release:

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DUBLIN, …
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The elves mining Nintendo’s vaults for classic games have unearthed three new ones to add to the Wii Shop Channel. They feature ragers, lasers and, um, monkeys not in cages. …
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May 2007:

Jissen Pachi-Slot Pachinko Hisshôhô! Hokuto No Ken (Sega) – 24th Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition (Capcom) – 31st

June 2007:

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Euro VC updated: DKC 2 on the way to US?
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