ARS - Company is counting on strong software sales to turn a profit this year.
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.
I say its the WiiU gamepad as the only thing causing them to lose money, but with WiiU Pro and WiiU motion(Wii controller) also out there I expect them to make it up with those sales too.
I say the whole system is causing the to lose money. 3ds is sold for a loss and it's half the cost and has 20 percent of the technology used in the WIIU.
I Believed that Nintendo are just saying that their losing money on each Wii U sold due to manufacturing cost. They want the public to believed that they are spending money on "tech" that has been available for years and costing them a fortune to developed. Supply and demands, Investors and Tech enthusiast are Nintendo's business scheme.
Also, If you think Nintendo are losing money on each Wii U sold. Investors would likely cash out and not Invest on Nintendo's stocks at all. It's a big risk in the business world.
I'd assume Nintendo loses no more than $50 each system sold for the 8gb and lesser on the 32gb model and the gamepad don't appear to be that expensive its a 480p tft low res 1 point touch screen with no CPU , GPU, ram etc the screen should be way cheaper than even the Vita's screen
Isn't the R&D cost included when the first consoles are sold? I think if Nintendo operates at a loss, they probably wont for long. They really need to offer a Metroid or Zelda game within the Wii U's first two years.