Nintendo Revolution has so far been a rare catch and we shouldn’t expect much until the day before E3 when Nintendo will make its big presentation. Both Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 has caused a lot of headlines, alas all are far from flattering, but these are much more open to the public than the first is. What has become pretty clear lately is that Nintendo has chosen to not compete directly with neither Xbox 360 nor Playstation 3 but will do their own thing, hardly surprising at first thought and when you think about it it’s actually quite obvious.
Except for the most obvious with Revolution, the controller, there is one more thing that has created headlines all over the world and that is Nintendo’s new online service. Via this you are supposed to be able to download games from all previous consoles, the exception being GameCube as these will work directly with the console, and through this you will be able to experience the gaming days all the way to back to the early eighties. We have earlier reported about a patent Nintendo applied for which revealed some basic information about it, but the interface was hard to imagine anything practical from it.
Recently the company Zanthus made a survey on Nintendo’s behalf where among others people from classicgamer.com participated and got to fill in a form and share their opinions about Nintendo’s new console. In the survey you could also find pictures of the new interface also known as virtual console. The pictures are of course mock-ups and in no way taken from the real console, but at the same time not far from from the final result.
Click to enlarge. From IGN
This picture show something very interesting. I’m talking about Parental Controls. Nintendo of America’s VP Perry Kaplan has earlier made statements about that Nintendo has to break free from the shackles of the reputation it has gotten about being a company making games for children and try to broaden the assortment to reach out to grown ups and teenagers We have seen with preliminary game lists games that are for adults in the form of FPS with blood, violence, gore and everything that comes with that, but since these are in no way official there is no way you can rely on them. But considering that it has now added this feature it is the least to say obvious that we will see a much broader assortment for Revolution than we have with the earlier consoles.
The survey also revealed the prices for this service. Or perhaps we should say possible prices. These were varying quite a lot and as you understand the games for NES costs less than those for Nintendo 64. IGN mentions $2.99 for NES, although there are differences between the games for each console, and $19.99 for N64, which hardly can be called expensive as you most likely has to pay more for it at your local game storefor a N64 game. They also mention a subscription that would cost $14.99, which I personally think many will sign up for. This subscription gives you access to the entire library of games for a month, which feels quite ok considering the amount of games, but also the quality of the games you get access to.
In the news you could also see a list of games that were available then, but they also asked for what games they were missing so the list will most likely expand until november. Below you will find a draft (NOT the entire list):
NES:
Duck Hunt
Excitebike
Hogan’s Alley
Ice Climber
Ice Hockey
Kid Icarus
Mario Bros.
Mario Open Golf
Metroid
Punch Out
RC Pro AM
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Tennis
Tetris
Zelda
Zelda (Adventure of Link)
SNES:
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Earthbound
F-Zero
Illusion of Gaia
Killer Instinct
Pilot Wings
Star Fox
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Super Soccer
Super Tennis
Yoshi’s Island
Zelda
Nintendo 64:
1080
Blast Corps
Goldeneye
Mario Golf 64
Mario Party 3
Mario Tennis 64
Paper Mario
Pilot Wings 64
Sin & Punishment
Star Fox 64
Super Mario 64
Wave Race
Yoshi’s Story
Zelda
Source: IGN
