Tynan Muddle at Aussie-Gamer writes: "Another day, another impending doom warning for Nintendo, this time from glorified online forum ‘Motley Fool’ whose contributor is warning investors that Nintendo might have to discontinue Wii U next year due to an “abysmal” first year.
The article is, of course, standard alarmist link bait masquerading as helpful advice, so I thought this week I would show the same arguments raised by the piece but in a slightly different light. Could a batch of arbitrary numbers be manipulated to spell success for Nintendo? Perhaps, but let’s start with the first point raised by the author."
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.
Good read.
Nintendo are definitely cooking up something b/c Nintendo has never been this quiet before.
My gut feeling tell me Nintendo are spending the extra time polishing up their games like they did with Mario 3d world.
3D Mario visual sucked at first, but when Nintendo updated the graphics, Mario became a masterpieces
I really can't wait for X. easily my mostanticipated game.
Not a surprise, the first 2 comments here...are from people expecting new Mario and Zelda games. Sad, really. That an entire company has brainwashed people into thinking that's all theyre capable of producing, to the point to where thats all people expect from them, now.
It's great news to people who love Mario, Zelda and DK games. And if those games are your bread and butter, more power to you. I remember a time when Nintendo was capable of producing so much more than just their star franchises, tho.
Deep in my heart, Nintendo died a long time ago.
Not next year, this year.
:D
I always love the argument that ninty has all this cash so they are totally fine with losing millions of dollars every year.
Reality is, they wont kill the wii u because it would hurt their brand and consumer trust which would cost more than a few millions. At most, they would try to slowly phase it out. I see them slowly giving up on the core market after zelda/X if they dont become system sellers.