When 3DS was announced, achievement-hungry gamers wondered whether the new handheld would start a new era of rewards in Nintendo games, but once again a standardised system feature was missed out. The StreetPass Mii Plaza has its own achievements, while titles such as Resident Evil Revelations, Kid Icarus: Uprising and others have included their own incentives, all isolated to the individual titles. Wii U brought renewed hope, with supposedly leaked details laying the ground for an accomplishment system; yet those that follow Nintendo closely — and more importantly listen to the words of its most senior executives — would have still had doubts. And so it's transpired, that despite all of the online functionality that it's bringing with the Nintendo Network ID and Miiverse, Wii U won't include trophies or achievements. At least, not for now.
Nintendo Life considers today's news that achievements won't feature, at a system level, on Wii U.
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.
That doesn't mean forever. It just means they aren't available at launch. Remember it wasn't until almost 2 years later that the PS3 added trophy support to their system.
Hopefully they add something similar since we all know some devs will end up being lazy and not adding them per game. Which kind of sucks since it can boost replay value.
YES!! The achievement system gets annoying & people seem to want to achieve them too often without just having fun & beating a game. Plus achievements are pointless without some kind of reward. You should get a free UNO, Tetris game or something for a certain amount of points. To receive achievements with no award is no fun. What do I get from the acheivements, nothing. GTFO!! :D
We already know Nintendo doesn't particularly like the idea of system-wide achievements but they might get included eventually. Miiverse seems to support announcing achievements, just not listing/tracking them.
If Nintendo do introduce this eventually, hopefully they wont be mandatory... Some of the achievements on 360 are just silly time-wasters and clearly there just for padding.
achievments dont add replay value. a good game adds replay value that's why I still play silent hill 1 and mgs on ps1. a shit game is still a shit game and I don't replay just for trophie/achievments. personaly this is a lame excuse to keep on playing a game. I'm not bothered either way as I don't horde them on my ps3. I play games for fun not for my digital ego.