New PS3, Wii, 360 Downloadables Announced

360 gamers have Lost Planet to look forward to this week, but PS3 and Wii owners have things to smile about as well. Today's virtual console game releases feature the Hudson classic title Dungeon Explorer, as well as the shmup Gradius and the sidescrolling shooter Soldier Blade. PS3 owners will get six great downloadable titles sometime 'in early 2007', courtesy of Midway and Sony Online Entertainment. "The six games announced in the deal are Mortal Kombat II, Gauntlet II, Joust, Rampage World Tour, Rampart, and Championship Sprint. Sony Online said those titles were chosen specifically for their multiplayer components, as the company is adding online play for all six." Update: 01/08 22:32 GMT by Z : Oops. Missed Ms. Pac-Man on XBLA this week.

Re:Argh!!

[kannibal_klown]

Some of those games were released as Gameboy Adv or Nintendo DS games. So they have the fiscal dilemma: release a game for $3-$5 USD when they are still trying to sell those games for $20-$30 elsewhere.

Re:Argh!!

[HappySqurriel]

To maximize the interest in the Wii Shop channel, and to maximize their profit on each game, Nintendo is being very careful not to release too many of their biggest games at a particular time. If Nintendo releases one of their major classic titles every 6 to 8 weeks you will likely download it, play it until you complete it or get bored, check out the Wii shop channel every week for 4 to 6 weeks (and possibly buy 1 or 2 lesser known games), and when they release their next big game the cycle continues. If every game was available from the start, or they released too many big games at once, you'd likely buy a bunch of games and not look back at the Wii shop channel for months (or possibly years).

Re:I predict

[buffer-overflowed]

Yea, those mean mean Sony haters.

Nevermind that Slashdot has long been a bastion of Nintendo(lots of mid-20s -> early 30s tech people), and people who *dared* to buy the gamecube and to a lesser extent, the N64, took endless levels of shit for it just about everywhere from the exact same types of people that post the limited amount of pro-sony stuff on the tech sites. Add in a couple enormous missteps by Sony, the fact that this is principally an American site and America loves underdogs(which sony is not) and falls from grace(current Sony), and there's not a lot of love to spare for the company outside the people who honestly don't care about the whole scene(and are just exhibiting the engineer trait of being contrary for the sake of being contrary), and the diehard idiots.

Sony, and their fanbase, really brought it on themselves. So either quit your bitching or uncheck the games section until the Summer, by which time it should have all completely burnt out(it already mostly has).

Re:Wouldn't pay $600 for it.

[geminidomino]

Then it's a good thing it costs less than a hundreth that then.
 
Saying the game costs $600 because the console does it like me claiming it costs me £5500 to drive to work in the morning because that includes what I paid for the card.

If there's absolutely nothing else on the system that he's interested in, then yes, Rampart online does cost him $606.

Just like DarkAlex's 302OE-b cost me $154.