MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Future saving of new games....

> I was gifted a Wii several years before it went out of support, and I'm glad I never
> purchased anything from the Wii Ware shop. Just before N* dropped full support of the
> Wii, I was able to download a ton of free demo games from the ware shop to an SD
> card. Ever since then, my Wii won't connect to the shop and I'm stuck with what I
> have, other than buying physical disks from second-hand stores. Basically, over the
> course of 3 years, my Wii has become obsolete and I cannot get ANY content for it
> going forward, including old content that was once offered online.

And even then, getting those second-hand discs will become harder when collecflation makes them jump to $89 each (AAA titles) just like what happened with the GameCube. Speaking of which, my local Cash Converters recently received a GameCube (no box), they immediately stripped everything from it and put a $169 price tag on the now-loose console with no games or controllers - they actually had 2 controllers with it plus Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortex (and probably others but they weren't on display) but of course Crash was sold separately for $49 and the controllers sold separately again! Same store also has a single N64 controller in the window with an $89 price tag!!!