So who here wants to write to Nintendo, and about the Gamecube attachment idea?

[linkzpikachu]

Nintendo might look back at its roots but it will never completely revisit its roots, it will only breifly revisit them like with the vitural console and OoT 3D

[FamicomRetroGamer]

I think nintendo 'looks back' and celebrates it's roots more than any other company I can think of.  Images, references and gameplay tributes to classic (nintendo) gaming are abound in Wii and DS titles; and I see no signs of that slowing for better or worse

Super Mario Anniversary Edition on the Wii, sure was nice.

/sarcasm

[L___E___T]

Why the heck would Nintendo make an add-on for the GC to play Wii games?  You can buy a Wii for $100 now, or trade-in your GC.  
At the most you'd get a letter suggesting that.  You can't hold Nintendo to ransom or demand things, you're a consumer but you're not lifeblood if you don't have $100 for a Wii though.  Heck, $50 would get you a used one.

[nintendodork]

I agree with L__E__T.  There is no way Nintendo would listen to such a thing, and Wiis are already cheap as it is.

[L___E___T]

I just don't understand these ramblings, every post & thread shows insanity and it's not a lost in translation thing. 
It's actually starting to get really annoying - just not looking/reading is becoming a difficult non-cure.

[FamicomRetroGamer]

This is in UK - http://uk.webuy.com/search/index.php?stext=wii&ispostback=1&mode=buy&refinecat=796

To be honest, Wii's aren't expensive any more.

But if I were to buy a used one, it'd be from eBay because the prices tend to be even more lower.

There's only a few games I'd like to own that are on Wii, I'll wait a little more longer, no rush.

[RegalSin]

There is no way Nintendo would listen to such a thing, and Wiis are already cheap as it is.

That is what they say, they said about the GCN. Nintendo could bang up some bucks by implimenting support from the GCN with the add-on device. Maybe it will even have a slot for N64 games. When the Weed2 release, the add-on could also support Wii two and cost just as much, but using pre-order of course. It would be a gaming revolution for the N-Team

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M5Hc8ofIHs

[L___E___T]

The question you gotta ask yourself, is why Nintendo would bother going to all that support, when Wii supports GC games.  Rather than make a GC that can play Wii and spend all that money developing an add-on, it would be cheaper to buy a Wii alone, which needs no development cost.

Honestly, please think about this straight - it's a cool idea yes, but not one that could ever be seriously considered.

[FamicomRetroGamer]

NGC is dead, if Nintendo were to bring it up again, it'd be selected games remastered on HD for Wii 2, or available on Nintendo's digital store for sale.

What you're proposing is not lucrative for Nintendo at all, for the customers, yes.

[son_ov_hades]

I would only get on board with this campaign if they added Virtual Boy support as well.





 

[nensondubois]

There are a few reasons why owning a Gamecube to play Gamecube games is better than playing Gamecube games on the Wii, but it is stupid waste to design, create and retail hardware to play the Gamecube on the Wiiwhatever. I would side with and understand why Nintendo will NOT be making this; there is no benefit nor even signs of this being a niche product. Though, I would still like to see full hardware support for Nintendo's other older consoles on the Wiiwhatever. Did I say Gamecube enough times?

[nintendodork]

Nintendo could bang up some bucks by implimenting support from the GCN with the add-on device. Maybe it will even have a slot for N64 games. When the Weed2 release, the add-on could also support Wii two and cost just as much, but using pre-order of course. It would be a gaming revolution for the N-Team

No.

I would only get on board with this campaign if they added Virtual Boy support as well.

Yes.

[RegalSin]

It is like I am room with a bunch of quiters. Wah wah wah I don't wanna go back to GCN, the Wii is only 20 dollars. 

It is like all the Resident Evil Fans during the end days of Funcoland, and everytime somebody would allways ask. When is RE4 is going to be ported to the PS2. Those RE players would not accept the GCN game as being playable or even touching it at all. Then when Capcom forced them to port the damn game and canceled the rest of the Capcom five, and released the game with shotty graphics, a fility loading screen, and missing detail. Then they released the game on PC, Wii ( which makes no sense ) and so forth.

If that does not burst your bubble, rememer Zelda:OOT release. Everybody brought the game, beat it, and then returned it to the damn store. So the stores was overstocked with Zelda's and N64 units.

Here we are today, and the SNES2 is still no here, along with thte DD64. Howabout that Gameboy 3d that we have been dying to get our hands on? Then they did the same thing to us with the Wii but even worst. They just added a feature like with a barbie doll. Think people, think. Look underneath the gcn. and even look at the size of the Wii. They are not too far apart, and you could afford it. if someboy could afford to spend or make a second series, then you can afford this. Otherwise I guess what people say about Nintendo fans are true.

That we are Welfare, poor, kiddy, children who are blind to see past Nintendo for what they really are. Preditors preying on your optimism and belief in the latest and greatest thing, that what they give us, and the word that you spread.

This is a first step to take care of what we own, and play videogames on consoles no matter what age. To have rooms filled with cleaned products.

Yes if Nintendo released an add-on device it will be something like, the Neo-geo. A big over expensive unit, that only a drug dealer could afford.  However think about it. We are adults, the internet is soooo simple that a dog
could navigate it, and we all have some form of income.

[L___E___T]

You're not making sense.  You're asking Nintendo to go off and waste their money to make new hardware, for a system they are not supporting, when that hardware already exists in reverse form.  Try asking them.  Seriously, go ahead and write that letter, at some stage I'll welcome you back to reality when you realise they will never make this even if 100,000 people put down $100 in advance.  Tell me which region you write to and I'll even follow up with them to gauge response.  I'm sure it will get read by a few people I know.

They made the N64 DD because they believed in the technology.  They had already developed software and hardware when they were ready to release it but there wasn't enough of that to support a full launch.  Still nervous about the VB disaster, they opened up the small quantities they had via mail order for that reason.  Their choices were eitehr lose money on all that R&D, or lose money via a full-on global release, or re-cap some/all money through a mail-order scheme.  SNES CD didn't even get to do that of course and that got written-off as R&D goodwill cost.

Nintendo's R&D department are limited, they are looking at other viable options to make new and exciting hardware.  
I am not sold on the WiiU either, I don't plan on buying one but even I know they're not going to go back and make bits for Gameboy, there's not enough of them free to for a start.  
You already have the GBA support you wanted via the Gameboy Player, plus pretty much every other console via homebrew and virtual console on Wii.

I don't understand the over-sentimentalised hard-on you have for the Cube.  I liked it, but times have moved on.  They actually really messed up with the Cube, it nearly brought them, down you know.  
Quite seriously, because they came to the party so late that nobody really saw much reason to develop for it.

What's more, you can't reasonably develop an attachment for the cube anyway.  The upgrades are to the main innards of the machine.  It's not like a new media device or a RAM add-on, it's more and those updates are all packaged and available on the Wii.  
If it's a question of cash, sell your GC and buy a used Wii from ebay for less than the price of a new game.  If you can't afford that, how would you afford a new add-on?

I am so utterly bemused by this concept but I feel compelled to understand exactly what it is you see in the idea and why it makes any sense at all.
Is it because you love the Gamecube?  If so, great - but I have a feeling we'll get another cryptic answer filled with stories of the past and conspiracy theories.

[RegalSin]

L_E_T don't be such a L_E_T_D_O_W_N. It is not about love, I have already traded all of that for NEC and Hudson Soft. It is the principal and respect towards a consumer base. Take Pokemon, sure Nintendo would be giving Public Assistance to all the lives they ruined with it's Rock/Paper/Sizzors glory. But in terms of being a product they should have the respect to have backwards compatibility and support. Instead we have wait for some merical to do it for us, or do it ourselves.

The answer i pretty simple. It is right there in front of our eyes and we are pretending to powerless to do anything about it. Like the Chrono Trigger X-Box game, people have decided to look at the law,( mans law )
and let it be. Lets put money before the merical. However in this case it can happen.

We as consumers should unite, and dehydrate the Nintendo franchise. Yes I just used the evil word that that bald man about FF7, but it is possible. Like Iraq for instance, if we the nation was truly whole we all should have protested on Washington D.C. about the war. That would have saved, lives. Sure the former Agent known as ABS would have been ducking out in terrorist capital of the world, but it would have saved lives. Instead we let them hatemongers, the bigots, the women who wear pants, and the men who enjoy being women have their day. Meanwhile hatemongers marched against the building of a place of worship, using excuses like 911. All of that wasted energy of we the consumer call distaste for the other product, other religion, other company.

Unlike the following example of negativeness, mixed in confusion proves the common man can make a difference. Writing letters to Nintendo, or etc persons will get peoples attention that this project is worth of some input, and monies to spent and made. But why dd the previous projects failed? Nintendo
broke a promise, they were not confident with the image the N64 made for them, they also felt the GCN needed a new look, and that what they did. Created something designed to do the following

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qniwI2hNhDs

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING RIGHT NOW TO THE "GAMER"

Hearding us into.....the dreaded world of computers, so that they don't have to built anything at all. They could just charge us a small fee, or bill, with no packaging at all. You the consumer will just need a graphics card to play everything. 1000% in the near future, we will see maybe one novelty console get built while Nintendo and the other farmers decides to make downloadable content for any device that is considered a machine capable of running programs, that has i/o input output, and most importantly connects to the internet. Yes their goes my crackpot conspiracy theory. Nintendo removes console from the eqaution, people start playing more computer games, economy keeps rising, somebody opens a mine on a Indian Reservation, twelve year olds become Crystal miners threw computerized robots, in old America. A majority of people then settle for having Chinese children, since they are just as reasonable a Japanese child. Koreans continue to frown.

The least most we can do, is just not buy their the WiiU and write the letters. Imagine a whole office full of pleades to make an enhancement for the GCN that will allow DVD, VCD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, Green_ray, and even GB, GBC, GBA, NDS, playback. Including optional HD tech.