Wired: The most charitable thing we could say right now about the lineup of games for Nintendo’s Wii console is that it is 'not quite' a barren wasteland.
There’s the epic adventure The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. The Wii debut of the addictive, original music game Rhythm Heaven. And another Kirby game. All these are coming at some indeterminate point in the future.
And that’s about it, at least for those of us who are fans of deep, challenging experiences, or the sort of things we used to call “videogames.”
That’s in America. In Japan, where Wii has not been as explosively popular, it’s a different story. Nintendo continues to make grand overtures to the hard-core gaming fans in its home country. Most notably, over the past year it has released two role-playing games called Xenoblade and The Last Story, created by some of Japan’s most famous RPG designers. The games are exactly the sort of thing that Nintendo’s system lacks stateside: full-scale adventures with solid gameplay, high-quality graphics and music, interesting stories.
So it came as something of a shock when Nintendo did not take the opportunity at E3 to announce U.S. releases for these two games. Over the years, Nintendo of America has often declined to release many of its more hard-core Japanese games, but these two titles seem to have been the straw that broke the camel’s back for many fans.
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Another Operation Rainfall article. Glad this is getting so much publicity.
The word needs to spread. I'm only soft modding my Wii to play Xenoblade and Last Story. I'd love to give NoA my money, but I guess they don't want it...
namco is also guilty of this crime is some cases ..
Nintendo:
'No you can't buy this game in your region.'
'No you may not buy it from another region and play it on your Wii, it is region locked.'
'No you may not mod your Wii in order to get around this.'
'No, we probably won't ever change our mind.'
When it comes to gaming, fewer things hurt worse than this sort of attitude.
I remember hearing things like this for a long time. There were so many RPGs that we did not have released here, and I was always jealous that Japan got them, but not us. The most baffling part? In my lifetime living in Kansas, which isn't as populated as some states in America, I don't remember retailers putting very many RPGs (if any) in a bargain bin. Always behind a case. If you wanted to buy used ones later, you could be on a waiting list for months. Doesn't this history show that RPGs can sell well in America?
But now the Internet is spreading news faster than ever before. These are games that would do quite well here. After all, fans are "crying out" for them. Things like this will only get worse and hurt Nintendo if they don't do something. RPG fans are some of the biggest diehards!