Kotaku: On Friday, we brought you the story of Jon, a Nintendo fan who spent $400 downloading old games to his Wii, but, through a mistake of his own and due to Nintendo's unusually strict digital-downloads policy, found himself with access to none of those games.
The lesson: a Nintendo machine isn't like an iPhone; your content is locked to the username that is locked to your console (though it seems Nintendo customer service can get around this).
After that story ran, I heard from another Nintendo fan.
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.
Nintendo should just put the entire NES and SNES lineup on the virtual consoles. This guy and the 400 dollar duy last week, it really looks like getting games from classic systems. Makes you wonder if the Gamecube could still live through the virtual console.
Beef up the Wii U virtual console, Nintendo. You could get a nice chunk of digital money if you added Gamecube first party title with off tv support.
If Nintendo would unify their account system, people would buy more games. If the customer isn't confident they can "own" the game, they'll be less likely to buy it. If I could play Virtual Console games between my Wii, 3DS, and WiiU (I don't own a WiiU) I would actually, y'know, buy Virtual Console games. But because I have to buy a copy for each system, there's no point.
Sony was allowing cross-platform accounts since the PSP/PS3 days. I have PS1 Classic titles that I've downloaded to multiple PSP systems, multiple PS3s, and now to my Vita, and Sony didn't require me to re-buy it a single time.
that was nice of nintnedo but you still need to add a log in system
Well, I'm certainly glad Nintendo changed their tune. That's far better than what was pulled the last time we heard about this.
But it doesn't change the matter that Nintendo needs to separate the accounts from their consoles and tie games to the accounts.
I still have the gold cartridge Zelda, Metroid, Mega Man with the weird cover art, Ice Climber, Kung Fu, Kid Icarus.....and this is why. It's like in 1985, I knew they'd invent some way to charge me again for games I paid $50-$70 for.