Thanks to clearance sales across various retailers, it would seem that Nintendo are stopping support for the white Pro Controller for Wii U.
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.
Collector's items. Get them while you can.
IMO it won't be long before the Wii-U itself is phased out. I don't want Nintendo to fail but man they're struggling. I've played Rayman Legends on the Wii U and I thought it was great. I just don't understand why it's having such a hard time selling. Maybe people are put off buy the tablet controller????? If you think about it the success of the Wii was the casual gamer. Well the inclusion of the tablet controller dosen't exactly appeal to the casual gamer, neither does the high price tag.
And so it begins.
Why phase out the controllers? The white Wii U is what needs to be phased out as the deluxe is the better model I don't see the strategy behind this ;)
Wow you guys really need to give it a rest. This post has gone from Looks like Nintendo are stepping the sale of the white pro joypad to Nintendo are going to drop the Wiiu and the Wiiu is a flop.
Really do you guys ever give it a rest. Started with the ps3, then moved onto the 3ds then the psv then the Wiiu then the Xbox one and now back to the Wiiu.
No one knows how well the total sales of the Wiiu will be come the end of its life and yes it has had bad sales after its 1st 3 months on the market but it has not had a very good line up of exclusives and 3rd party games were half assed.
The lack of exclusives is the reason why it has not sold very well and come the end of this year it will have mariou, Lego city, pikmin 3, donkey Kang, Mario 3d, sonic lost worlds, wonderful 101 as its stand out exclusives and then come the start of next year it will have its biggest named game in Mario Kart and also Super smash bros as well as some of the big 3rd party games like cod.
People do not buy a new console for 3rd party games if you look at the sales of the ps3 at the start, the 3ds at the start and now the Wiiu it shows this. Who on here is upgrading there 360 or ps3 to a Xbox one or ps4 just for BF4, COD, Fifa? It will not be many 98% of people will be upgrading for a exclusive game and the ones who play the 3rd party games will move over when they stop making that 3rd party game or the consoles drop in price.
The Wiiu will sell just fine it may not hit the same sales numbers as the Wii but just like the PS4 and Xbox one will sell well the Wiiu will too.