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So where you one of the 60,000 people that downloaded Mega Man 9?  That’s right… 60,000 downloads in one day.  For an NES game that costs about 10 bucks.  Capcom in one day made about $600,000 (although, I’m sure big N gets a cut of that), and that’s just the North American Wii downloads.  The game still has to come out on Xbox’s and PS3’s download systems.  o_O  That’s awesome!  In one day Mega Man 9 beat pretty much all the other download amounts for all the other games on WiiWare and Virtual Console.

So what does all this mean?  It means that Capcom has totally opened the door for new NES games.  I can tell you right now there are other studios working on new NES games wanting a slice of this pie *cough* konami *cough*.  Plus, it’s a big incentive to make something like this what with them being cheap and quick to develop (plus no box or cartridge to make or shipping costs).  The best part of all this is that people like me that loved playing NES games and feel like they missed out on making games for the system will get a chance to live that dream.

That gets me very excited.  I know I’ll be trying to pitch some NES ideas out there with the hopes of one taking off.

Long live the NES!