CostCo, a major retailer in the US, is selling both Wii U models at a $50 or more discount. Is this a bad sign for the console or just another sale?
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.
WIIU TEH DOOMED! Yeah just no its just a sale. If say multiple retailers did it at the same time then it would look a lot more worrying, as in they arent shifting any units. This looks like a normal sale to me.
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Hopefully more retail stores follow suit ;)
NO-
Most people don't realize this but for a Corporation to have inventory sitting on the shelves looks bad (to shareholders).
Retailers over bought stock units, they have more WiiU inventory than they will sell for a while.
-Mostly because they did not want to get caught without the HOT product of the YEAR and they did not want to repeat the Wii shortage.
Also, Nintendo was cranking out WiiU's like it was going to sell like Wii. Not because they thought it was but because retailers were making pre-orders as if it was going to be as big as Wii.
The - $50 is probably just - the mark-up for store profit.
Warehouse space is (possible) money-
And they are trying to look good at the end of the Fiscal Year. Stores buy all year round and in many cases go in the negatives only making-up their cost at Christmas time. Selling the WiiU at their purchase cost is a way to make them get closer to even.
You can say it's a sale but the PS3 never had anything like this to my memory until about 7 months after launch when the price decreased by $100..if it was on sale anywhere for anything less I woulda bought it. 2 months after release ant a good thing.