Will Wii owners be able to connect online and download classic Nintendo games?
Yes. Nintendo announced at E3 2005 that Wii would be able to go online wirelessly and download classic Nintendo games. Nintendo has not yet announced what titles will be available for download. However, it has confirmed that Wii owners could theoretically download every NES, Super-NES and Nintendo 64 game ever made. The publisher is reportedly already working with third party publisher to ensure that popular third party games are also available to download. At E3 2005, Shigeru Miyamoto said: “We have not set a price or determined a list of software for the Nintendo Wii download service. But, we’re looking at this as a consumer service and not so much from the business end. What we want to do is provide the product that is going to make the Wii the console that people want in their homes. So it actually might be driven from the consumer end rather than from us. You know, the games that they most want might be the ones that we do. From a technological point, we can do any of them.
