The Man Cave Cinema writes, With the lack luster sales of the WiiU, will Nintendo follow the path of Atari and loose it relevance and ultimately fail?
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."
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.
Great article....interesting investigating reporting....NOT.
These stories are getting old, very quick. Sales were good, Nintendo will be around for a few years. I doubt the writer of this outstanding groundbreaking story will also.
"Will Nintendo follow the path of Atari?"
Uh, no. Nuff said.
my how the nintendo haters are so scared of the wii u. if this was the 720 or ps4, then the video game media would be like, oh give them time, sales will pick up, it's anew system, nintendo has been around for over 100 years, and they survived the virtual boy, the wii u is selling, it sold over 3 million so far. there are millions of mario and zelda fans, nintendo survived the game cube, they survived the n64.. the nes, super nes, and the wii won their cosole wars, and no one can touch nintendo when it comes to portables. so if the wii u is a disappointment in sales for the next gen, then they are not doomed!!! sorry nintendo haters, it's just the video game media's prayer to god that nintendo will fail.. THE WII U WILL NOT FAIL!! A FACT, NOT AN OPINION! I think it will win the next gen wars, but even it it comes in 3rd, you know like the ps3?, then nintendo will lick their wounds, and make another system in about 5 or 6 years.
sorry nintendo haters, nintendo will be around for a long time, grow up and get over and enjoy your own machines. until another nintendo is doomed garbage story is posted here, i will be waiting, lets see how patcher and the rest of the sony and microsoft media predict doom for the ps4 and the 720? god why can't the video game media have HONEST AND FAIR JOURNALISM?, wait the video game media does not know the meaning of fair and honest. how sad.
LOL can't bother.
Well obviously right, since both Atari and Sega came off of successful console and handheld machines the previous generation. While also having more than 10billion dollars in the bank as well before they went under as console maker... Not to mention having a new successful handheld and just launching a new home console./sarcasm