No, not that FFIII for those who are confused with the numbering. The original FFIII, featuring the onion knights, is coming to the Virtual Console in July. The game had also been re-released on the DS a few years back, but this is a good chance for purists to pick up the original version or try it out if you haven't played it yet. The game can be purchased for 500 Wii Points.

Square Enix has also said that they plan to release three more ports on the VC. Maybe that other FFIII might also see a release in the future.

Japan gets Final Fantasy III (no not the one with Terra, the Onion Knight one on the Famicom) as a Virtual Console game next month. For 500 Wii Points ($5) you can suffer through Garuda in glorious 8-bit.

The other two games are Super Punch Out and Shinobi for Virtual Console Arcade. July 2009 will be the first month where there are less scheduled Virtual Console games than weeks in the month. This guarantees Nintendo will release less than one game a week.

Square Enix will continue to support Virtual Console with at least three more Final Fantasy ports, but I wouldn’t expect too much from the platform in the future.

McClubbin via siliconera.com »