This morning we ran a roundup of clips from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon's big post-E3 "Video Game Week," highlighted by his hands-on time with the Wii U. Fallon's opening monologue, however, is where the entertainment is, really.
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.
CNN did a whole like 2 page article talking about the WiiU as if it was a Wii add on as well. This is what you call brand confusion.
I honestly blame the name...they should of changed the name when they had the chance at E3
They probably thought people (aka the Casuals they said they wern't targeting) would be like...
"Oh cool a new Nintendo product, the Nintendo Wii was so awesome lets buy this day 1"
Yet because E3 isn't really watched by casuals and the fact they don't know like us it's a brand new console (next gen) it's probably going to go like this
"A new Wii...well no point buying it, we have a working Wii right here at home...maybe when this one breaks we'll get a new one"
The problem with this is because they're still going after the casual audience and they're likely to get a bad reaction from them on top of the already bad reaction they've recieved from core gamers.
They should of changed the name if they were so interested in going after the casuals again OR they should of picked one audience and stuck with it, the casuals or us core gamers because it really feels like Nintendo havent made up their mind yet. It's one of the other Nintendo but deep down I think you've already made your choice and I don't think it's us. I think they're just saying there aiming for the core audience so they can grab sales early on from both audiences.
As for third party support I honestly think that when the PS4 and Nextbox comes out the Wii U will become like the Wii and will be left in the dust as third part developers decide to make games for more powerful consoles...who can blame them, if you can do more with a game with better tec then go for it.
I said this would happen.
Great job Nintendo...