Man, this week is slow in VC land, we only get one game.

This weeks VC update:  Super Turrican

At least the game is pretty awesome, and got some really high scores back in the day.

News from 411mania.com: 

Well, sort of.  Europe will have it before us. While the system is a little before my time, it should be great news for the older gaming crowd.

Make way for the Commodore 64.

From Kotaku:

The virtual console is doing well at over 10 million downloads since its launch.  He says it’s proof that downloaded games are a possibility for WiiWare developers.  This reinforces the idea that WiiWare is a great way for independent developers to get into the market.

He also mentions that Nintendo is still having trouble keeping up with the demand for the Wii, mostly due to the high (and unexpected) demand through the Summer months.

I hope they, can make enough consoles to get out there and keep up with the demand.  About the WiiWare thing, I can see it going either way.  I think most of us pay for the VC games just to relive the old game experiences of the NES and SNES eras.  I don’t know if the demand for the WiiWare titles will be as high, unless we see some awesome stuff coming out.

Article Here: Iwata Speaks

Full Interview Here: GameSpot Interview with Nintendo President 

Is this a mistake? Who knows. I hope that maybe Nintendo decided to just give us this VC game. I am not home today, so I can’t try it out. My guess is someone goofed at the official Nintendo site.

I hadn’t noticed this before. Thanks to my GF (yes, she wants the credit for it) for the info.

Link: Nintendo VC Games

Voice chat/Virtual Console

• Reggie talked about how Nintendo is still considering voicechat, and how he wouldn’t be surprised to see it on Wii in the future.
• Both expect it to happen (when Nintendo say stuff like this, it basically means it is happening) but are dumbfounded by how long it is taking.
• Both really hope it comes out in time for Smash, but are doubtful.
• For the majority of VC games, we’re not going to see modifications or upgrades (like we did with Pokemon Snap), simply because Nintendo doesn’t need to do it.
• Don’t expect a VC price drop in the future - they’re doing great and there’s no need to change anything.
• Hope to see more import games (like Sin and Punishment) and expect this because it appears that Nintendo is paying attention to the wider gaming community.

NPD

• Both Wii and DS did exceptionally well.
• Numbers don’t include some retailers such as Walmart, so the numbers are even larger.
• Analysts are predicting around 1.6-1.7 million for Wii in December.
• Make sure you camp out if you want to get a Wii - don’t go on ebay or anything because you will be ripped off.
• If the quantity had been there, Wii sales would have definitely been over 1 million. Nintendo would be kicking themselves right now because of their inability to get more units out.
• Very solid performance by 360 (not too far away from Wii) and PSP, as well as Playstation 2. Playstation 3 numbers are still comparatively low, but much improved from last month.
• Galaxy released a week later than COD4, so both games are basically selling at the same pace - if Galaxy came out earlier, then it would probably have reached around the same numbers as COD4.
• Guitar Hero 3 Wii should be a 1 million seller by the end of the year, which should do very good things for future Wii 3rd party support and also proves that 3rd party games can sell very well if they are high quality and appeal to the Wii audience. EA should be kicking themselves for not releasing Rock Band on Wii.
• Bozon thinks it’s taken way too long for the mono issue in Guitar Hero 3 Wii to be fixed. Action needs to be taken.

Wii Software LTD’s:

• Super Mario Galaxy = 1.2 million
• Smackdown vs Raw 2008 = 53,000 - not very good first-month numbers, and comparatively lower to PS2 and 360.
• Carnival Games = 300,000 - has sold better than Nintendo’s Big Brain Academy.
• Boogie = 172,000
• Call of Duty 3 = 310,000
• Cars = 115, 000
• Cooking Mama = 190,000
• DDR Hottest Party = 176,000
• Dragon Ball Z Buokai Tenkaichi 2 = 166,000
• Elebits = 130,000
• Excite Truck = 266,000
• Fire Emblem = 53,000
• High School Musical = 185,000
• GT Pro Series = 108,000
• Guitar Hero 3 Wii = 715,000
• Happy Feet = 87,000
• Harry Potter = 150,000
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess = 1.8 million
• Madden 08 = 292,000
• Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games = 330,000
• Mario Party 8 = 1.4 million
• Medal of Honor Heroes 2 = 31,000
• Metroid Prime 3 Corruption = 490,000
• MySims = 200,000
• Wii Play = over 3 million
• Rayman Raving Rabbids = over 500,000
• Rayman Ravings Rabbids 2 = 60,000
• Red Steel = less than 400,000
• Resident Evil 4 = over 400,000
• Resident Evil : Umbrella Chronicles = 120,000
• Sonic and the Secret Rings = 350,000
• SSX Blur = 125,000
• Super Paper Mario = 808,000
• The BIGS = nearly 200,000
• MLB Power Pro = around 80,000
• Tiger Woods 07 = almost 350,000
• Tiger Woods 08 = 175,000
• Transformers = 150,000
• Trauma Centre = 210,000
• Trauma Centre: New Blood = 15,000
• WarioWare: Smooth Moves = 604,000
• Zack and Wiki = under 35,000

- Bozon thinks that the great sales of Resident Evil on Wii should lead to an original Resident Evil game on Wii, likely in the vein of Resident Evil 4.
- It seems that casual and minigame titles on Wii are selling best, with a few exceptions.

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No mp3 support? That’s all the music you own? Simply just go to Data management in your Wii setting then click channels then delete your Photo Channel . Once deleted you will be reveverted  back to Photo Channel 1.0. Also you are now able to send a gift in the Virtual Console to a friend as a gift. However it’s Region locked so you can’t send or receive gifts from your Euro or your Asian buddies. However while I haven’t tried it. You may be able to send a VC gift to a friend in another region by changing your consoles region. Much like the glitch to buy foreign VC games. This may or may not work, try at your own risk. I don’t know if Nintendo fixed the region coding by changing your console settings.