Emily Rogers asks various developers how they feel about the current debate over region locking on Nintendo platforms
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.
Good to see so many great devs resonating with the general thought on region locking. Hope Nintendo listens to the very blood that is and aims to nourish the Wii U and 3ds libraries, and remove the region-locking completely.
>Earlier this month, I also had a friendly discussion with two highly respected Kotaku writers/editors, Stephen Totilo and Jason Schreier.
They are NOT highly respected. Those two, in fact, are some of the most frequently mocked Kotaku guys. Then there's the implication that Kotaku is respected. Otherwise it was a pretty good article.
Region locking is just a really silly practice that alienates people who actually want to buy foreign products
I would love to see Nintendo remove this, but I just can't see it happening. Not because Nintendo doesn't care or anything, but because of their dated practices. You see Nintendo using regionalized OS's (unlike Sony, which is universal) and they start to run into problems if you update a NTSC/U Wii with a NTSC/J update. Maybe they can fix this down the road, but I am still waiting for them to finally make the account system less of a joke.
Iwata thinks otherwise. Its not like 3rd parties are avoiding the system because it region locked. Theres no reason to reverse it ands it not worth squadering money and man hours to free it up for the select few that actually import. People will continue to say Nintendo is doomed and dated regardless in the end.