Shantae coming to 3DS Virtual Console (Probably)

[Pichu]

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/30660

Looks like physical purists could finally get their hand on a reasonable physical copy of the game sometime soon.

[noiseredux]

under most circumstances I'm unconvinced that digital releases really lower prices on physical copies. But in the case of Shantae you may be right as it's been notoriously difficult to properly emulate.

[Hazerd]

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/30660

Looks like physical purists could finally get their hand on a reasonable physical copy of the game sometime soon.

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"Physical Purists" i love that title, because spending $60 on a download only game is pretty much a waste of money! when you can have a Physical copy.

[noiseredux]

Physical Purists, i love that, cause spending $60 on a download only game is a waste of money!

$60 on a download only game? You lost me. What are you talking about?

[Pichu]

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/30660

Looks like physical purists could finally get their hand on a reasonable physical copy of the game sometime soon.

Physical Purists, i love that, cause spending $60 on a download only game is a waste of money!

I'm not quite sure what is happening in this post.

[AppleQueso]

under most circumstances I'm unconvinced that digital releases really lower prices on physical copies. But in the case of Shantae you may be right as it's been notoriously difficult to properly emulate.

I don't know, look at the Ps2 version of Marvel vs Capcom 2. That game was worth quite a bit until a digital version was announced. Then the value plummeted. Ikaruga's gamecube port is another game that's gone down in price over the years, possibly due to the digital version being available.

I think games that command more extreme prices like Shantae here stand a much better chance of actually dropping in value thanks to a digital release.

Shantae isn't that hard to emulate either. Visual Boy Advance might have trouble running it, but lots of other GB emulators run the game fine.

[noiseredux]

@Apple, I wasn't really denying the possibility, but more saying I hadn't been convinced by anything I had tracked price-wise. So good examples. I didn't realize that there were emu's running Shantae well. Last I tried there were lots of glitches on various ones. Thanks for the update!

[AppleQueso]

@Apple, I wasn't really denying the possibility, but more saying I hadn't been convinced by anything I had tracked price-wise. So good examples. I didn't realize that there were emu's running Shantae well. Last I tried there were lots of glitches on various ones. Thanks for the update!

BGB was the one I last used to play it, btw. It ran nicely.

I agree that digital download stuff being available usually doesn't affect prices much, but we haven't really seen how it affects games this far on the extreme end of the price spectrum.

I don't expect to see the game drop to $20 or something like that, but seeing it go down to maybe $50-60 or so would be nice.

[Pichu]

@Apple, I wasn't really denying the possibility, but more saying I hadn't been convinced by anything I had tracked price-wise. So good examples. I didn't realize that there were emu's running Shantae well. Last I tried there were lots of glitches on various ones. Thanks for the update!

BGB was the one I last used to play it, btw. It ran nicely.

I agree that digital download stuff being available usually doesn't affect prices much, but we haven't really seen how it affects games this far on the extreme end of the price spectrum.

I don't expect to see the game drop to $20 or something like that, but seeing it go down to maybe $50-60 or so would be nice.

That's all I ask really.

[Satoshi_Matrix]

Yesssssss I'm very pleased to hear this news. Shantae is an absolutely amazing game and as long time followers of my blog know, it's also what I consider the GBC's best overall game.