Nintendo Co. warned buyers of its new Wii U not to turn off the console while downloading a mandatory firmware update after some customers complained their devices were damaged during the process.
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.
O oh oh oh oh oh no!
“It may take an hour or more to perform the system update,” the company said in an e-mail yesterday. “Powering off the console during the update may damage your system.” - Nintendo
I knew by common sense that turning off a console during a save, load, update etc could potentially harm the console on a software level, possibly corrupting or worst case scenario, bricking it. But PHYSICAL damage? That's a genuine new one on me.
If Wii U carries over the trend of either mandatory/optional installs on multiplatform games, then this could be a pretty big issue. It hasn't really been made clear if this is purely a Day 1 software update issue, or if ALL potential installs and software downloads can cause these issues.
If the latter is true, they could potentially have huge scale replacements to customers because everyone has to install something at least once even if it is only the initial firmware update.
I hope they manage to iron these teething problems out, i don't wish issues on anyone who wants to just enjoy their new platfrm =/
lol
"Oh hey I'm bored of this updating, I know I'll turn off my console even though it warned me not to. What's the worst that can happen?" - 'Murica, fuck yeah!
Turn your ps3 off while its installing updates or saving see what happens