IGN - Reggie describes the learning process in unveiling a new console.
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.
Nintendo is gonna have a hard time marketing the wii u what with stiff competion from tablets like the kindle fire HD and possibly the iPad mini. They are going to need a solid marketing strategy to clearly convey to all the families why they need this. I am very excited for this system in the short term and what the long term has to offer.
I dont see the general populace flocking to this like they did with the Wii.
Nintendo manage to obtain that Apple magic. Small upgrades with huge sales.
I just know the casuals are going to see the tablet controller as something that it really isnt... I can see some unhappy buyers... not many, but they will exist!
People keep talking about how the casuals are going to see the controller for WiiU and not know what the WiiU really is all about. The truth is that it doesn't matter if they understand the product. All Nintendo needs to do is get people into the stores with the intent of buying a WiiU. If people go in thinking they are buying a tablet for the Wii it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter because they are probably thinking that it will cost them around a $100 like that exercise pad did. So they are already ready to spend at least a $100 and they want the product. Finding out that it's a new console that cost $299 will make them rethink the move. But as they are trying to talk themselves out of it, the fact that the WiiU is the new big thing and in their mind it's only $200 more will convince a lot of people to just impulse buy and take that leap.
The ones that don't will keep the WiiU in mind and do a bit of research. The sites they look at, and obviously it won't be n4g, will hype the WiiU as the next big thing. That hype along with their intent to buy will be more than enough to make them go back and buy a WiiU.
Companies tend to release major products around November/December because they want to take advantage of this sort of a logic. If a product has enough hype than this logic continues to apply after the holiday season is over.