XMNR: In a move that completely contradicts Nintendo's standard console sales strategy, the company announced Wednesday that the Wii U will be sold at a loss.
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Minecraft writes: "Right now, we’re also working on bringing a native version of Minecraft to the PlayStation®5 – because Minecraft is better when friends can play together on whichever device they want. Over the coming year, we’ll also be exploring ways to improve Minecraft’s multiplayer experience and make it easier to find and connect with friends."
Remains to be seen if they manage to give us more content
I thought after they got bought by MS it would have been update after update with all the resources behind them. It makes you wonder if that rumour a while back about be careful with content is true.
There’s so many things they could do but they just don’t bother
It truly makes me wonder just wtf they even do considering the pathetic updates that come out compared to what some teenage modder can probably knock out in a week. And then they have the audacity to be "engaging the fanbase" by making them vote to keep certain content and the rest just go away into oblivion. Like, why? Why not just release everything? But it seems Minecraft fans just stupidly love it for some reason.
This just lets me know that you know nothing about anything. Modders don't have to worry about licensing or corporate and international rules and regulations. Its why they can inject nudity and gore into E10+, E, and even EC rated games.
So long as the corpos don't know a modder is using copyrighted works they won't go after them. The reason they don't know is because they don't have to go through legal channels to do such things. It's precisely why all the company's use AI tools to analyze the video and audio tracks looking for copyrighted work on social media. Because on social media we don't have to play by the rules either but the company's do and in turn they can cut you off for breaking laws that you didn't know existed and it is incredibly clear that you don't know they exist. That is why official content in Minecraft is so tame and rolls out very slowly.
The reason why they are getting rid of some content is because they have to pay to keep some of it around, particularly anything made that contains the likeness or namesake of another entities IP.
If they are getting rid of unlicensed world packs made in-house without relying on anyone's IP, then Mojang, Xbox, and MS are just being lazy with hosting content.
@VariantAEC That's not what I'm talking about. And the stuff that's being voted off is not licensed stuff. It takes them a whole year to come out with a new biome and they show off a frog or some other dumb thing.
Almost everything they've done since they were aquired has either been cancelled, delayed or shut down. Every update takes them longer than it should and they delay it even tho they give themselves plenty of time. Next gen update never happened, every spinoff they abandon. Bedrock is a consistent mess, and modding is essentially stuck behind a pay wall. I'm keeping an eye on whatever 4J is doing, and hope they manage to steal some of MC's thunder.
Crazy news. It must be the controller.
Interesting news
If Nintendo is selling at a loss that marks me wrong with my prediction of them returning to great profits leading into 2013. But more importantly what does this mean for other corporations who have been said to have "much more capable hardware" Than the Nintendo Wii U entertainment system. It makes me wonder if such a risk is still worth taking, especially from brands that are financially unstable. I always believe that making a profit from day one was one of the most important business decisions within a console launch. These days not even a company as conservative as Nintendo can create such a reality.
If this is the story for the Nintendo Wii U entertainment system, it will be interesting to see if any major risks are taken from anyone else hardware wise next generation. It looks like there will be balance issues between raw graphical capability VS advancement and innovation.
What would you rather have your platform of choice do? Take the Nintendo path taking on expensive innovation, or shoot for a massive graphical leap?
Rated E For Everyone
I wonder if this has anything to do with the foxconn issue. I remember them insisting on the not selling the Wii U at a loss. Now they won't be able to manufacture it as cheaply(though Sony and Microsoft will continue to use them and everyone will ignore it.) There has to be some new development that brought this about.
Still, I wonder, how much of a loss. Black Wii U is $50 more and the only real expense it offers is a disc they manufacture themselves which can't cost them anymore than 5 dollars. Increasing the flash storage from 8 to 32 GB is also probably no more than $5-$10 dollars.
All of this isn't adding up.
ok...well nintendo did the right thing....and i expected that because with the controller and the graphic gpu processor which every third party developers has said is very powerful then wiiu is quite a system.....haters will hate though and speculate about things that microsoft and sony has yet to announce.....im glad nintendo has not revealed the true spec of the wiiu because i bet sony and microsoft are looking to cut cost by bring out a system that is barely more powerful then the wiiu and shows no difference since they will all be 1080p and let their fanboys run wild about nonsense