"Over the past year or so, Nintendo has fallen victim to massive amounts of scrutiny from the hardcore fan base. Since the E3 announcement of the WiiU back in 2012, critics and fans worldwide have been puzzled by Nintendo’s business practices and decisions. From the light weight launch lineup, to the restriction of user generated videos from WiiU exclusives, it seems Nintendo has lost sight of what made it a staple of living room entertainment. So what is the problem Nintendo?"
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.
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.
I can agree with some of those.
3D Land not being online was a misstep I think. Why wouldn't you have the first 3D Mario multiplayer to be online? That's just stupid.
More Ip's would be nice, but I'd rather them come out with good games I have to wait for.
The trophy system is lame IMO, if only because it would take all of the fun out of Smash Brothers which utilized the concept correctly and actually give you something to admire. Otherwise I'm not interested.
This just sounds like a bitchy gamer.
Let Nintendo do it's thing even if they make some mistakes on the way. They will deliver. Somehow they always do.
All they have to do is bring the games! 3DS had no games when it was first released then a year later BAM! Now it's the best selling system this year.
I think it is. They've completely blown their head start, and will be going against some impressive competition by the end of the year. The titles they're banking on to revive them are by all accounts not arriving till ~april of 2014, some like zelda not till holidays 2014. By the time they gain any real traction sony and M$ should be utilizing their far more powerful tech, I'm not sure N will even be able to get ports of 3rd party games, and if they can it'll be seen as the weakest version.
All of the focus of Nintendo has been on the "failure" of the Wii U. Yes it may not have sold well, but the company has two consoles it is selling right now. The 3DS has remained the top selling console for quite a while now. I do not see how Nintendo needs to worry about the Wii U when, even with the price cut, the 3DS is outselling Sony and Microsoft.