The price drop may have resulted in the 3DS' much-improved sales in recent months -- leading to it already surpassing first-year sales of the DS -- but it also left early adopters feeling like they had made a mistake by choosing to pick up the 3DS so quickly. Luckily a gesture was made to keep them happy: a selection of 20 classic games would be given to them for free. Nintendo still plans to make good on that promise by the end of the year despite rumors to the contrary.
Ten of those games were NES titles released at the end of August. They are (eventually) planned for public release on the eShop, complete with additional features. 3DS Ambassadors-- the name assigned to anyone who bought a 3DS before the price drop and enrolled in the free program -- will be able to upgrade to these enhanced versions for free once they are made available.
The other ten are Game Boy Advance games which Nintendo says it will not sell on the eShop. A release date was never given for their release to Ambassadors; they were simply said to be coming later in 2011. We're now approaching the year's end and it was rumored this week that their release may have slipped into 2012.
Not so, says Nintendo. Speaking with the Official Nintendo Magazine U.K., a company rep stated, "The forthcoming 10 GBA Virtual Console titles available for registrants of the Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Programme, will be available before the end of December 2011. We will make further announcements in due course."
Similar to what was done with the NES titles, only five of the ten GBA games have been revealed at this point: Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi's Island, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Metroid Fusion, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames, and Mario vs. Donkey Kong represent half of what early adopters will get for free.
It's difficult to complain about a freebie -- particularly a freebie that can't be had otherwise -- but the GBA games will be somewhat gimped as compared with other downloadable 3DS titles. Upon release they will lack support for Restore Points, Sleep mode, or any of the system's wireless functionality like StreetPass or SpotPass.
Of the remaining five games, what are you hoping ends up on the list? Let us know in the comments below.
Source: VG247
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