The most recent round of Nintendo Direct broadcasts opened, whether you were watching in Europe or North America, with Nintendo President Satoru Iwata telling us all about The Year of Luigi. After a solid 18 months when, arguably, Mario was the go-to figure accounting for a healthy portion of Nintendo's release schedules, the put-upon brother is now being given an opportunity to shine.
Nintendo Life looks at the upcoming Luigi releases, and how they're leading the charge for a 2013 line-up of new ideas and creative gaming.
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.
yes, i agree, along with the unique 3ds titles, wii u is getting wonderful 101, bayonetta 2, and the dlc bar has just been raised!! why have a few bonus levels here, new costumes, and new ending there, when with super luigi u, you are going to get, 82 new levels, not broken up into packs, but one full down load!!
this is going to change dlc i think, playerw will want more content, and this will add months of replay value for games, hell maybe even years?
who says nintendo won't make more levels with the toads or mii characters?, and just think of what they can do with zelda games? down load new worlds, dungeons, the possibilities are endless. now whole games can be added to games as dlc, this is one of the reasons why i think nintendo will have the edge in the next gen console wars, along with triple a titles like, smash bros, mario, zelda, monolith x, and retro's game, now these titles, can have whole games added as dlc!!. this is very exciting, and i cannot wait to see what becomes of it! can you imagine after beating zelda, nintendo makes sheik's quest, with 100 new dungeons, or fire emblem the new journey, with an alternate journey for the whole game! and again, not broken down into paks, but as one down load. i think nintendo is on to something big, and i cannot wait to see how other game developers will put this to use!
I'm waiting for Zelda -_-
luigi u is a great idea for DLC adding essentially a whole "second quest"
LM: Dark Moon will certainly be an excellent title. It has the concepts of LM, but is a bit more player friendly with hopefully some interesting twists. It's a sequal to an underrated game, and I'm sure Miyamoto has put plenty of love into it.
The Luigi DLC for NSMBU is interesting because Nintendo has never released any major DLC for a 1st party (or any title really) on a home console in its history.
Hopefully Nintendo will continue to branch out of its usual line-up and open a new bag of tricks. It would be nice to see Star Fox get its due, they could release a more hardocre oriented game that expands on its genre. Nintendo looks to have some surprises up their sleeve, hopefully they have a lot more to offer.
Nintendo has always been creative, but in sometimes small and almost un-noticeable ways.
I like that they try different things, even if they fail and don't work out at least they attempted and helped to further ideas within the industry.
They don't care about what is hot so much as creating the next new good gaming experience.
Once this gen's fads wear out people will start getting back to the soul of gaming. Where Quality trumps quantity and we start seeing some extremely creative games.