Critical Hit! says: "Xenoblade Chronicles. The Last Story. Pandora’s Tower.
The truth is, Nintendo has a long history of holding games back from US release. The reasons sometimes vary (when reasons are given), but it’s a practice that goes all the way back to the early days of the NES.
To give you a small glimpse of what you’ve been missing, I’ve compiled a list of the twenty non-US first-party Nintendo games that struck me as being the most important, most interesting, or most potentially fun to play. I’ve limited it to mainly console releases (as opposed to handheld) in order to narrow things down. Now, allow me to guide you on a journey into the forgotten past…"
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.
lol you guys get it lucky
its Nintendo's fault I never got to play Chrono Trigger as a 12 year old kid, FFVI....or Super mario RPG
philistines!!
Fantastic read. Without a doubt one of the best articles that i have ever read on here.
You know that it is a good article when you're completely outraged at the end. No more Fire Emblem?! I hope that you are wrong, because i will be absolutely crushed!
To make things worse... i never got a chance to play Earthbound! I have been patiently checking my Virtual Console every week. Just knowing that Earthbound would eventually come (they have 2 Earthbound characters in Smash Bros.). Before reading this, i had no idea about the potential legal issue with the soundtrack. It seems very likely that i will be crushed again.
I knew that NoA had a reputation (for being wrong), but, i had no idea that their track record was THIS bad. It hurts because i have just lost a lot of my optimism for Xenoblade and Last Story being released in the US.
*speechless*
The Last Story
Pandora's Tower
Xenoblade
Disaster: Day Of Crisis
Dynamic Blade a.k.a Zangeki No Reginleiv
Fatal Frame 4
These are games that could have made the Wii more respectable with HD console owners. I don't know what to say but it seems that NOA and many 3rd-party developers really dropped the ball on the Wii.
Xenoblade
and pretty much most of the games on that list