Leading up to this morning’s Virtual Console announcement, three of Nintendo’s content partners for the retro game service announced, making a big deal out of it even, that major games would hit the service.
SNK issued a press release that said* Samurai Shodown II* for Neo Geo would be on Virtual Console today.
Capcom, in a post that’s since been pulled1, said that Mega Man for NES would hit Virtual Console today.
And Hudson listed the long-awaited Ys Book I & II for TurboGrafx as having a release date of, yes, August 4.
And what happened? Not a single one of those games made it out today. Instead, it’s Sonic the Hedgehog for Master System and *Splatterhouse II *for Genesis. Not bad releases, mind you, but Nintendo, not content with simply messing with consumers’ expectations, has moved on to actually hoodwinking publishers into believing that their games are set in stone on the release calendar, then snatching the football away at the last second.
What goes on in their minds, I’ll never know.
Image: Wired.com
1From one blogger to another, guys: bad form. You cannot flush anything down the memory hole.