Originally posted by: DefaultGen
Originally posted by: Quaze
Virtual Boy Wario Land is probably the best game to never really have been played by a wide audience.
Nintendo never did anything with 3DS and Virtual Boy right? What the heck is up with that?
There's probably many reasons, the biggest one is that while it's a sort of "beloved" item to throw a callback reference to, it is also Nintendo's worst-performing game hardware, and the last Nintendo project released which was directly created by Gunpei Yokoi. Some games wouldn't have strong appeal for starters. Add to this that some of the better games are rather reliant on the double d-pad setup. It would be hard to translate Red Alarm or Teleroboxer to 3DS. Then consider how games like Mario Clash would lose out because you would no longer have the move/throw inputs on the d-pads (unless you got rid of the option to use the face buttons for run and jump and only allowed triggers for those). This would basically require a re-imagining of how the game would work, and while doable, would be somewhat of a lost opportunity.
It's my opinion that, in the end, the only game which would have strong appeal as a virtual console 3DS title would be VB Wario Land, a game which would work fine on the given controls. Making an emulator to work on 3DS just for one game wouldn't be practical, and even then people would complain about how short the game was, or they would realize that perhaps VB fans overhype how good it really is (more my opinion that hte game isn't nearly as good as people insist). Nintendo would honestly have been better off remaking the game in full 3DS visuals. The end product could be much improved too thanks to the ability to go back and add more levels, or more gameplay elements, any number of things. IMO the existing Wario Land just wouldn't cut it for the expectations of would-be players.
I forgot that another game you could do is Mario's Tennis, but that's not even that good of a game compared to other tennis titles. Given the option, I'd rush to pick up the GBC Mario Tennis on 3DS VC over the VB game.
Just my two cents as a VB fan (I have mine hooked up as we speak and love playing Mario Clash on it). I don't think 3DS is a good platform to choose. I'd rather Nintendo do it right on a Labo VR release or something, maybe even make a wireless VB controller for the full pipe dream effect
For me, the great game that will be missed out on from Nintendo's less-successful hardware is Nintendo Land. That was the game which completely sold me on Wii U back in 2012, the games were just fantastic multiplayer experiences, and the single-player ones weren't bad either. The game also had fantastic art and visual direction, and a great collection of nintendo music remixes, and is notable for the creative uses of the gamepad as well as for some really notorious game experiences (who doesn't remember the internet drama caused by Donkey Kong's Crash Course?) It is a real shame that the game will never be ported or be playable on other hardware.