ZTGD Next-Gen Console Wrap-Up

In 2005, the video game industry brought in record profits of $7 billion, catapulting a business once thought by many to be merely “child’s play” past the revenue of both the movie and music industry.

Entering into the busiest shopping season of the year, the video game industry is once again looking at record numbers, this time banking on two of its heaviest hitters, Sony and Nintendo, as both companies’ prime new consoles for release into the American market in late November.

Ever since the launch of the original Playstation gaming system in 1995, Sony has dominated the industry. In fact, since its launch in 2000, over 20 million copies of the companies Playstation 2 gaming system have been sold, out performing the competition by a margin of two to one.

MORE virtual console games revealed on ESRB website

A short while ago reports emerged of some new virtual console games turning up on the ESRB website, similar to the Sega virtual console titles that were discovered on the site a few weeks ago. These new titles were:

• Duck Hunt (E for Everyone)
• Hogan's Alley (E for Everyone)
• Kid Icarus (E for Everyone)
• Kirby's Adventure (E for Everyone)
• Pilot Wings (E for Everyone)
• Pro Wrestling (E for Everyone)
• Punch-Out (E for Everyone)
• Wild Gunman (E for Everyone

Well, it seems as if even more classic games have shown up under the Wii section of the ESRB's website! The following 13(!) games have been listed:

• Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (E)
• Kirby's Super Star (E)
• Mario Kart 64 (E)
• Star Fox 64 (E)
• Super Metroid (E)
• Kirby's Dream Land 3 (E)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (E)
• Excitebike (E)
• Ice Climber (E)
• Dr. Mario (E)
• Mario Brothers (E)
• Ice Hockey (E)
• Soccer (E)

Some of these aren't new, but they are new to the ESRB's list. More importantly, most of the ARE new! While the release dates of these titles are still up in the air, we can assume they will be available within the first few waves of releases, which would mean we would have access too all of these downloads by February or March 2007.