Nintendo Wii - Downloadable Games

[Wayne]

Well, I've heard and read about the downloadable games features on the Nintendo Wii. Does anybody know how this works? How do you buy them, and what kind of games will be available? +Rep

[SimplyTech]

well you buy points cards from the shops 2000 points - £14
You can buy nes snes n64 but also consoles such as the sega megadrive and turbo grafx games more are added every monday starting off with 32 games on launch but more will be added every monday until theres every nintendo game there is

[Wayne]

well you buy points cards from the shops 2000 points - £14
You can buy nes snes n64 but also consoles such as the sega megadrive and turbo grafx games more are added every monday starting off with 32 games on launch but more will be added every monday until theres every nintendo game there is

Thanks a lot for that, +rep. So how much are games to buy each, or do they vary?

[Neversoft]

You will be able to buy Wii point cards from shops. A Wii point card will cost around £14 in a game shop, and for that you get 2,000 points.
NES games cost 500 points
SNES games cost 800 points
I don't know how much N64 games are, but Super Mario 64 is 1,000 points so i'm assuming they will be around 1,000 - 2,000 points.

I think there are 31 games available at launch, more will be added next year.
You buy the games from the Wii Shop Channel on the console.

The games you can get at launch are:
Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)
Gunstar Heros (Mega Drive)
Bomberman'93 (TurboGrafx-16)
Altered Beast (Mega Drive)
Golden Axe (Mega Drive)
Columns (Mega Drive)
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Mega Drive)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive)
Donkey Kong Jr. (NES)
Ristar (Mega Drive)
Donkey Kong (NES)
Space Harrier II (Mega Drive)
F-Zero (SNES)
ToeJam & Earl (Mega Drive)
Baseball (NES)
Ice Hockey (NES)
Mario Bros. (NES)
Pinball (NES)
Soccer (NES)
Solomon's Key (NES)
Tennis (NES)
The Legend of Zelda (NES)
Urban Champion (NES)
Wario's Woods (NES)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
SimCity (SNES)
Super Star Soldier (TurboGrafx-16)
Bonk's Adventure (TurboGrafx-16)
Ecco The Dolphin (Mega Drive)
Dungeon Explorer (TurboGrafx-16)
Victory Run (TurboGrafx-16)

I got all the information from my Nintendo magazine, none of it is copied and pasted from the internet.

I think Mega Drive games are also 800 points.

[Wayne]

You will be able to buy Wii point cards from shops. A Wii point card will cost around £14 in a game shop, and for that you get 2,000 points.
NES games cost 500 points
SNES games cost 800 points
I don't know how much N64 games are, but Super Mario 64 is 1,000 points so i'm assuming they will be around 1,000 - 2,000 points.

I think there are 31 games available at launch, more will be added next year.
You buy the games from the Wii Shop Channel on the console.

The games you can get at launch are:
Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)
Gunstar Heros (Mega Drive)
Bomberman'93 (TurboGrafx-16)
Altered Beast (Mega Drive)
Golden Axe (Mega Drive)
Columns (Mega Drive)
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Mega Drive)
Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive)
Donkey Kong Jr. (NES)
Ristar (Mega Drive)
Donkey Kong (NES)
Space Harrier II (Mega Drive)
F-Zero (SNES)
ToeJam & Earl (Mega Drive)
Baseball (NES)
Ice Hockey (NES)
Mario Bros. (NES)
Pinball (NES)
Soccer (NES)
Solomon's Key (NES)
Tennis (NES)
The Legend of Zelda (NES)
Urban Champion (NES)
Wario's Woods (NES)
Donkey Kong Country (SNES)
SimCity (SNES)
Super Star Soldier (TurboGrafx-16)
Bonk's Adventure (TurboGrafx-16)
Ecco The Dolphin (Mega Drive)
Dungeon Explorer (TurboGrafx-16)
Victory Run (TurboGrafx-16)

I got all the information from my Nintendo magazine, none of it is copied and pasted from the internet.

I think Mega Drive games are also 800 points.

Thanks very much, they seem expensive. +rep.

[Neversoft]

An 800 point game is about £5. ;)

[Dan]

Oo never knew could download games for it, this just gets better :P and £5 for some of them games aint bad atall!

[Bear-Max]

GoldenAxe... I'm liking it.

Hopefully Streets of Rage will be an addition in the future. If that was going to be available at launch, I'd go and preorder my Wii right now.

Oh, and apparently Nintendo are in talks with Activision and Microsoft about Bringing GoldenEye to the Virtual Console.

[ProGreco]

sounds cool

btw this is slightly of topic but on the 360 does it work in the same way? do u have to buy points to get games? or is there any other way to get points

[Bear-Max]

It works pretty much the same. You can buy points with a credit card or in a you can buy pre-paid cards of 2100 points in stores.

[Neversoft]

GoldenAxe... I'm liking it.

Hopefully Streets of Rage will be an addition in the future. If that was going to be available at launch, I'd go and preorder my Wii right now.

Oh, and apparently Nintendo are in talks with Activision and Microsoft about Bringing GoldenEye to the Virtual Console.

The original Goldeneye on N64? I never knew it had anything to do with Activision and Mircosoft. :s

[SimplyTech]

The original Goldeneye on N64? I never knew it had anything to do with Activision and Mircosoft. :s
They have the 'bond license'

[Homesrfan]

They have the 'bond license'
I thought it was with RARE?

[SimplyTech]

I thought it was with RARE?
Rare created it but they no longer own the bond licence activision does and microsoft owns rare

None of the virtual console games really interest me atm but in the future...