Don't need Galaxy since I got the 3D Allstars Collection; but Galaxy 2 always felt like it was missing from that.
The Nintendo Thread of Jumping, Slashing, and Home Decorating
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Don't need Galaxy since I got the 3D Allstars Collection; but Galaxy 2 always felt like it was missing from that.
Not a bad price if it includes the games with it...
No, the games are on VC. This is just the peripheral needed to play them.
Hmmn, you would think that it would come with a gamecard.
They're charging $100...for a box?! A empty box that you just put your Switch in?!
I mean...it's a nice recreation, I guess. It's a fun little collectable. But...what's going on here? I could probably buy a ORIGINAL Virtual Boy for cheaper than that! INCLUDING most of the games! This has got to be one of the weirdest power moves Nintendo has made in a while.
I mean...it's a nice recreation, I guess. It's a fun little collectable. But...what's going on here? I could probably buy a ORIGINAL Virtual Boy for cheaper than that! INCLUDING most of the games! This has got to be one of the weirdest power moves Nintendo has made in a while.
Plastic.. Lots of plastic. Not an empty box. Also remember, trump taxes.
I'm also guessing it has the stuff in it to make the 3d element work..
Yeah. the lenses to separate your eyes.
Just a reminder they have a much cheaper cardboard version.
Just a reminder they have a much cheaper cardboard version.
The only way either one is actually worth owning is if they're planning to release real-ass VR content for the Switch at some point (or at least allow other developers to). Which... if that's in the planning stages, this would be a hilarious way to hint at it.
I think the thing that gets me is, they're trying to get us to pay ANY amount of money extra...for Virtual Boy games. And they might take a year or two to actually give us all of them.
Even if the cardboard version of the setup is only like...$5 (which it won't be, it's probably going to be more like $30 or something)...that's STILL too much money to pay for the privilege of playing Virtual Boy games.
The simplest and easiest way they could have done this would have just been to give us the option to shut the 3D off. It's all on a emulator. They could easier put in a setting to just let us play these like Game Boy games. With toggles for the 3D and the red filter. If you wanted to give us that option so we could just play normally on the console, but ALSO sell these other options to the people who would really want the 3D, that'd be fine. If you want the "premium" Virtual Boy experience, and if you're willing to pay for it, you do you. But give the rest of us the option to just try out the games without buying into the full plan. The 3D is not essential to any of these games. We shouldn't have to pay extra for it. It's the INSISTENCE on preserving the "artistic vision" of the Virtual Boy that really annoys me. Is Nintendo really SO in love with this gimmick that they feel the NEED to keep it in, no matter the cost?
We're talking about a system that often causes people PHYSICAL PAIN to actually play. And you want us to pay MORE for that? What IS this? Why is Nintendo rolling out the red carpet for the Virtual Boy of all systems? Where was all this support for the OTHER systems on NSO? They spent MONEY researching ways to recreate this. Are we really just paying extra for the meme of it all? This is just utterly baffling to me.
It all just feels like a weird prank. I can't believe they're serious about this.
Even if the cardboard version of the setup is only like...$5 (which it won't be, it's probably going to be more like $30 or something)...that's STILL too much money to pay for the privilege of playing Virtual Boy games.
The simplest and easiest way they could have done this would have just been to give us the option to shut the 3D off. It's all on a emulator. They could easier put in a setting to just let us play these like Game Boy games. With toggles for the 3D and the red filter. If you wanted to give us that option so we could just play normally on the console, but ALSO sell these other options to the people who would really want the 3D, that'd be fine. If you want the "premium" Virtual Boy experience, and if you're willing to pay for it, you do you. But give the rest of us the option to just try out the games without buying into the full plan. The 3D is not essential to any of these games. We shouldn't have to pay extra for it. It's the INSISTENCE on preserving the "artistic vision" of the Virtual Boy that really annoys me. Is Nintendo really SO in love with this gimmick that they feel the NEED to keep it in, no matter the cost?
We're talking about a system that often causes people PHYSICAL PAIN to actually play. And you want us to pay MORE for that? What IS this? Why is Nintendo rolling out the red carpet for the Virtual Boy of all systems? Where was all this support for the OTHER systems on NSO? They spent MONEY researching ways to recreate this. Are we really just paying extra for the meme of it all? This is just utterly baffling to me.
It all just feels like a weird prank. I can't believe they're serious about this.
Ironically, the biggest thing out of the Nintendo Direct for me didn't even make it to our Nintendo Direct: Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection. Ours showed Mortal Kombat Legacy Collection in its place. Protodude thinks it's because they didn't have an English build ready for a trailer yet.
Either way, I'm quite happy. Happier still that it's set for Xbox, unlike Battle Network Legacy Collection. I'll be over the moon if it gets a physical release, too. But I think even Capcom Fighting Collection 2 didn't get that.
NSO Virtual Boy.
The Good: Preserving these games for new generations to play!
The Bad: Why the hug wasn't this done in some form ten years ago on the handheld with actual 3D?
The Ugly: Requiring (according to the fine print, anyway) a $25-$100 purchase on top of the cost of a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership to get headaches playing on their least-successful platform of all time.
Oh, and no Virtual Boy controller. WTF.
Mario.
Some neat or okay stuff there. Wondering if the Galaxy 2-pack will validate the whole "should have been in 3D All-Stars" complaint from five years ago.
Still want a New Super Mario All-Stars with HD versions of the non-U NSMB games. Or maybe just reimagine the NES games (and World) again, like the original SMAS, but with modern visuals and sound instead.
Tennis seems kinda neat, but man, who asked for more babies?! At least it's just the core three... for now.
Movies are kinda jumping ahead in the timeline, but sure, why not. I hope they give Rosalina her echo-y voice back for this, instead of her Peach 2 voice.
Phanto in Super Mario Bros. Wonder? Yes, please! I don't much care for the new look, but hey, I'll take any SMB2 love I can get (especially since the movies seem to be skipping it).
Not Mario, exactly, but DK Island looks cool.
Either way, I'm quite happy. Happier still that it's set for Xbox, unlike Battle Network Legacy Collection. I'll be over the moon if it gets a physical release, too. But I think even Capcom Fighting Collection 2 didn't get that.
NSO Virtual Boy.
The Good: Preserving these games for new generations to play!
The Bad: Why the hug wasn't this done in some form ten years ago on the handheld with actual 3D?
The Ugly: Requiring (according to the fine print, anyway) a $25-$100 purchase on top of the cost of a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership to get headaches playing on their least-successful platform of all time.
Oh, and no Virtual Boy controller. WTF.
Mario.
Some neat or okay stuff there. Wondering if the Galaxy 2-pack will validate the whole "should have been in 3D All-Stars" complaint from five years ago.
Still want a New Super Mario All-Stars with HD versions of the non-U NSMB games. Or maybe just reimagine the NES games (and World) again, like the original SMAS, but with modern visuals and sound instead.
Tennis seems kinda neat, but man, who asked for more babies?! At least it's just the core three... for now.
Movies are kinda jumping ahead in the timeline, but sure, why not. I hope they give Rosalina her echo-y voice back for this, instead of her Peach 2 voice.
Phanto in Super Mario Bros. Wonder? Yes, please! I don't much care for the new look, but hey, I'll take any SMB2 love I can get (especially since the movies seem to be skipping it).
Not Mario, exactly, but DK Island looks cool.
More than likely.. Capcom didn't pay for it to be in the English direct.
Capcom Fighting Collection 2 did get a physical release. It's still available up on Amazon. I guess I'm not sure how widely released it was, but it's still physically available.
I can't believe they didn't think to make a proper VR headset that we can slot the switch 2 into and instead did a pointless Virtual Boy thing which is madness since that system was a failure. Given we're getting RE7 and 8, it could have provided a fantastic experience, those games with joy cons.
This is what really blows my mind and makes me wonder what kind of asylum escapees they've got running things over there. Making people play in actual 3D is one thing, but forcing it to be the original bright red color? That was like, half of why everyone hated that thing in the first place. In a perfect world, these games would have been rereleased on the 3DS Virtual Console first; in a still pretty decent world they would have been added to Nintendo Classics around the same time the original cardboard headset came out as part of Labo, as a silly gimmick to get people talking. (Granted, they did say these would be playable on the original Switch, so probably they'll be compatible with that as well.) In neither scenario would the red have been mandatory.
On that note, does anyone have experience with the Labo VR thing? I'm curious if it had head tracking or not. It must have, right? Any sort of VR that doesn't involve pretending you're looking into a box that's strapped to your head is a barf-fest without it.