Tynan Muddle at Aussie-Gamer.com writes: Oh, the internet. What was once a beautiful land of forgotten dreams has now turned into a cesspool of propaganda and unfounded rage, like the recent air around the Wii U launch in North America.
Here’s what happened: some journalist in America went out and bought a Wii U at midnight launch. He got home and saw the console asked him to perform a system update after he connected to WiFi. And so he sat, looking at the screen for a whole 15 minutes before getting bored and yanking the power cable out of the wall.
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
Huzaifa from eXputer: "The Nintendo Partner Spotlight sale event has discounted a number of worthy titles on the Switch. Here are 6 of them you should check out."
I never heard about ability to brick shit while downloading update ! Applying update yes but downloading ??? 0_o
Who in the right mind would yank a cord out while downloading something? Purposely looking for a way to eff it up? Well its good to know that it wont brick in case of a power outage.. The media is out to destroy nintendo & it might actually work.. Sure its mostly sold out at retailers but it can be found if u look hard enough w/o over paying on ebay.. The wii was gone instantly but this is still around just like when gamecube launched (just not as much)
That 1GB seemd like 10gb
you mean to tell me that all this uproar was because a imbecile decided to not do his job and give us half assed news?
his whole job is to search for factual info and give it to us!!!
this guy needs to lose his job.
When I downloaded the update, I knew it couldn't be 5gb. 5gb even on a solid connection would take much longer than what it took for me, which was about 1 1/2 hours tops. I downloaded Alan Wake on my 360 and it took upwards to 5 hours to finish downloading.
But if this info is true, and the fact stands that the "bricked" consoles were downloading the update instead of malfunctioning, then...wow. That changes quite a bit.