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Sounds like viral marketing. I mean, it came from a goddamn forum! And we all know that 99.5% of stuff in the forums are fanboyish tantrums.
Also, what the heck is Street racer?!

That just sounds too odd for me... Super Mario Kart is a sure hit, its sales wouldn't be affected much by the release of a "competing" title, no matter how much good. And Street Racer wasn't that awesome title, by the way.

On the other hand, Nintendo in its history has done several moves like this, so it could turn out to be true...

This is complete speculation and rumor. Why would Nintendo allow Sonic games to go on Virtual Console when they could potentially compete with the Mario titles? Also, true or not, Nintendo would not disclose that kind of explaination to any publisher.

Who?

I absolutely hope that isn't the case. If Nintendo outright confirms it, Wii is officially sold back to GameStop.

BJ

Maybe if it was a game more impressive than Street Racer getting denied, I'd be more upset. Like, say, what if Nintendo had blocked Terranigma because they released Link to the Past?

She made the right decision.

WARNING: some may find this offensive, but with the recently discovered "Nintendo isn't letting third party games on the VC" thing, I can't help but be skeptical. However, if this is true, I'm deeply sorry to any and all who were offended by this (Not that that will get me anywhere ).

I'm not so sure this was for "family" reasons. On the Nintendo Minute articles on IGN, she constantly gives small hints to upcoming game announcements/small reveals to different things. And knowing how Nintendo seems to be going in the plot of the universe, They didn't want her to give anymore small hints away.

Well, it would be a understandable move so I don't know where all the fuss is all about.

That's a load of BS. If this is true why the hell do we get two Puyo Puyo clones on the VC (Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and Kirby's Avalanche). Surely, Nintendo would had skip on the Sega title but didn't, also perhaps Nintendo wanted to release Super Mario Kart first before they could release the competing clones later, maybe that's why it got turned down, resubmit after SMK and Nintendo might reconsider.

It is possible, but Super Mario Kart is going to do better than any 3rd party racer, so I kind of doubt that this is true.

Well, that's pretty dickish. It also explains a lot.

I (tried to) read the comments on every IGN Nintendo Minute. I couldn't.

@Terranigma Oh, I thought that was confirmed. My mistake. & about the censorship thing, you're probably thinking about the European/Japanese release of the game or the more infamous Wolfenstien 3D SNES port. I don't know which, but it's probably one of those.

The right decision

They have approved quite a pile of crap. Makes no sense blocking a game, especially not a mk clone. Most would choose the mk game as first priority and those who would not, would probably get both.

Hudson and D4 support has been lacking but other 3rd party support has been strong from Tecmo, Sega, Commodore, and Lucas Arts. Well anyway if Mario Kart arrives tomorrow maybe Nintendo will then plan to release Street Racer. All is solved and good in the land of the VC.

why is this a surprise. They can approve or not approve any game they want. It's anyones guess why, maybe it's about this kind of competition, maybe it's other things, but it doesn't bother me. They still make generally pretty good choices about what gets released. It's no worse than the "nintendo seal" of the NES days, ensuring the family friendly material. I might feel differently if Nintendo put out lots of crap, and held back great titles, but their own releases are top notch.

I only wish they would help support some of the third party titles that do get released with their own advertising muscle, thats what is lacking from the great 3rd party games on Wii.

uh, Wait how could this be true in light of this "Okiraku Kart Wii" game that was just released in Japan and posted in the news here 2 spots down?

The post on NTSC-UK is from June 2009. Bit weird to devote a news item to it now. But I have to say that it is understandable from Nintendo's POV to release Super Mario Kart before any other similair Kart game. But I think we can be happy with Nintendo's Third Party VC support after the LucasArts release from the last couple of months.

NOOOOOOO! I'm waiting for Street Racer sooo long! SERIOUSLY!

I believe this. It's pretty obvious, especially when you look at the 64 VC. There is NO WAY that no company wants to rerelease their 64 games on VC.

And if you've ever noticed that when Nintendo releases on of their games on DSiWare or WiiWare/VC they tend to release either nothing or crap games along with it. It's clear they either hold or block third parties releasing games.

If they are doing this, then I will e-mail Nintendo of Japan about this and order this message to Satoru Iwata.

We can understand blocking some games from the Wii, since they might suck, but Virtual Console games is unacceptable.

Now the chances of Ubisoft supporting the Virtual Console has diminished.