Stick Skills: "With all of these combined sales, including hardware and software, no one could light a match up to Nintendo in 2010."
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.
The soccer moms need to fix their attitudes and go buy a wiiU now!
Ninty will make good monies in europe.
Nintendo will be fine.
I don't see anything WRONG with the Wii U, i just don't understand what it's going for or who it is targeting.
As a PS3, 360 and gaming PC owner, it really holds no place for me as i'm not enthusiastic enough about 1st party Nintendo titles to spend £300+ on a new system for them.
And coming at it from a new gamer that doesn't own an HD console perspective, what does it offer me that i cant't get for over £100 cheaper on PS360? With a substantially bigger back catalogue and already firmly established online setups with 10's of millions of users already there in the existing platforms, i just don't see what they are going for.
And if they are trying to hold the current gen once MS/Sony move up to another generation, the points from above apply again, i could get essentially the same thing but still alot cheaper.
If you own a Wii U, i'm sure you're having a blast and all the more power to you, but it just flies over my head i'm afraid =/
"With a substantially bigger back catalogue and already firmly established online setups with 10's of millions of users already there in the existing platforms"
those complaints aren't really reasonable. it just comes down to complaining that the console is new. And nintendo kinda addresses that by having backwards compatibility.
I just bought my wiiU and I can't say I'm blown away, it's fun though, and I can see that there is potential for good games. I'm really impressed with the responsiveness, there's barely no latency at all between the gamepad and the TV.
nintendo needs to get their shit together on the OS though. It's way to slow for what it does, especially when you know a gig of the ram is dedicated to it.
EDIT: was meant as an answer to TheFaceless.