This is why the more popular titles aren't making it though since Konami and Capcom make more selling Castlevania and Mega Man in their own collections. I imagine most of the money from the VC came from the individual downloads which limited the really obscure ones from showing up. Either Nintendo is paying a solid flat rate or giving them a certain percentage, which makes them more likely to give their lesser known titles. We've gotten several ultra obscure titles that never made the previous VC services so at the very least third parties are getting a better cut with this service. One thing I've been wondering is, how much money do third-parties get for putting their games on this service, and how does it compare to the VC? There's probably no way for us to know that I guess. Plus, they're taking the time to add new features to old games, so there's more to it than just dumping ROMs. If everything dropped at once, people might not subscribe long-term. With Nintendo, it's one company's service. I think the difference here is that digital music was a market place and there were multiple parties trying to get into that market place, hence all your old music becoming available quickly. Scrolling through a list of SNES games, my goodness there were a lot of great licensed games that just probably are getting re-released. More likely, we'd see other systems added instead as Nintendo moves on to other parts of their past library to try and utilize instead. Moreover, how many games do these services need? Sure, it would be great to see 100 SNES games but if there are 40 overall, that's still a fair chunk of gaming time one could spend on it. But overall, it is probably going to get harder and harder to add things to it. And there might be a few other deep cut surprises by third parties like Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. I could see Natsume maybe providing some titles like Harvest Moon, Lufia or Pocky and Rocky. Are some companies going to bother with their properties like Clayfighter or Zombies Ate My Neighbors? Don't see Square putting FF4 or FF6 on the service. Doubt they will now put those games up on the service. As for other third party stuff, Capcom recently released the Mega Man X collections. Others with third parties also have rights issue like Disney games, Looney Tunes games, or Star Wars games as examples. Some games with Nintendo have rights issues like SimCity and Tetris Attack. What people are probably hoping for or complaining about not seeing are the third party games like the Mega Man X series, the Final Fantasies, Chrono Trigger, Mana, Earthworm Jim, Super Bomberman, Super Adventure Island and whatever else someone may have played at one time on the system. Unless Nintendo is going to figure out a way to get fancy with the Super Scope games or really feels the need to get Yoshi's Cookie or Vegas Stakes on the service then their contribution to the SNES library is going to come to an end pretty soon. Aside from a few things like DKC, Mario RPG and Earthbound most major Nintendo SNES games are now on it. So Nintendo on day one of any VC like service should have 90% of their retro games up there and whatever third party games they can work out a deal on. They try to get a big library of content to choose from as soon as they can. In the rest of the entertainment world they don't drip this stuff out. Let's remove Nintendo and video games in general from the equation. When you login to any sort of digital store or a streaming service I think the real expectation is that everything that CAN be on there IS on there. There were things to work out with specific labels and artists and such but the idea was to get this stuff on the new format and get it there soon. Did people on iTunes want their favourite classic music to be dripped out in little spurts or did they want access to everything? They wanted access to everything if they could get it. It's no different than when records went to CDs and then CDs went to downloads. I think of this stuff, and I'm going back to the Wii VC even with this, as a new format for old games.
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