Kotaku: When you log into the Wii U's eShop today, here is what you'll see on the front page: New Super Mario Bros. U, Batman: Arkham City, Ninja Gaiden 3, and Mighty Switch Force: Hyper Drive Edition.
In other words: the same launch games you saw a month and a half ago. When the Wii U came out.
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.
Well I guess they could rotate the games they show on the front page of the eShop, but it's hard to criticize what content they are showing when nothing new has been added to it. Obviously when new games launch, they will be promoted on the front page. But until that time, it's hard to judge it.
I still think the eShop is great, and easy to use.
I don't care what anyone says, it will eventually grow and be awesome, maybe not as good as everyone wants it to be, but the fact that any Nintendo game can be put online one day makes me giggity.
I agree that the WiiU store is severely lacking.
Also I find it a glaring omission that there is no Nintendo direct or other video messaging available on the WiiU.
granted I could open a browser for this, but I should not have to.
I agree with this article for the most part, but the Wii Shop Has a Ton of AAA games for download. Like stated in the article it sucks we cant play on the gamepad. I know soon we will be able to, but HURRY UP NINTENDO. :) I am hoping that GameCube games are easy to port over to the E-Shop there are a ton of AAA games allot of people (myself included) missed out on, mostly because Gamecube did not sell very well. Gamecube games looked almost as good as Wii games(cause Nintendo underpowered Wii). Back to the lack of E-shop games, there are some great games on the way in the meantime I am still enjoying the ones out now. In the next few months there will be a ton of new content out. By Next Holiday there will be too much to choose from. Another Note I would like to make Launch-Xbox360 18 games... http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
PS3 12 launch games http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Wii launch games 20+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Gamecube 12 games http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
And LOL lastly N64 just 2 launch games http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
The reason I posted all of that is because each systems launch took time to expand upon, and good things come to those who wait (what choice do we have) Nintendo will get there within the year I think we will all see some really cool things on Wii U. I for one am looking forward to it! :)
I don't even understand why it's lacking. It should at least have all the Wii Virtual Console games on the eShop. I get that they were meant to be played on the Wii, but do we really need to emulate the Wii to emulate other emulators? I'm sure they could have made some for the Wii U.
Also, the eShop's UI is horrible.