PlayStation Beat: With the re-release of Wind Waker upon us, what’s the incentive – outside of the game’s HD visuals – for those to go back and play it again? The Wii U doesn’t have an achievement system.
20 years later, The Wind Waker’s Ganondorf is still The Legend of Zelda’s best villain.
Nintendo is a weird company. It has the most illustrious legacy of any single company in the medium and seldom chooses to take advantage of that fact. Countless classics are confined to their original platforms or only available through outdated retail models or a cheeky bit of emulation.
This holiday would've been great and it would've calmed my hunger for tears of the kingdom. It supposedly exists but why has it taken this long I wonder. Here's hoping it still releases before totk, maybe a trailer at the game awards and a shadow drop.
Wii U was such a great to play every 3D Zelda game and various 2D ones as well
It'd be nice if Switch caught up to that wealth of legacy content
Booted up WW HD through emulation on Deck. Forgot how much I like that game, it's so charming with how expressive Link is. Ninty has taken too long.
Nintendo wants the focus on tears of the kingdom. Though with these year Zelda old rumors I question if the collection ever existed for the Switch. Much like the Prime Trilogy that evolved into a remake or remaster of just Prime 1 in recent months.
Nintendo will be shutting down the eShop for the 3DS and Wii U completely in 2023. Makes sure to check out these games before they do.
If they're not important enough to be held on their own official storefront then they're not important enough to give your money to Nintendo.
Buy these, physically, used or simply emulate them.
This article comes off as nothing more than advertising games that Nintendo, themselves, don't care to offer you... buy now!
Wait hang on where all the outrage? I swear when Sony tried to do this with PS3 last year. There was outrage from all corners of the gaming universe.
Why does no one care Nintendo is doing it?
It's lame that it is shutting down. Now I feel rushed buying all the rpgs I missed out on the system.
You guys know that even archive.org has 3DS roms, and all other console roms. I'm downloading 846GB of 3DS roms and will add the best games to my soon to be soft modded New 3DS 😁. Might as well throw in DS and other emulators in there to. Guys this would be the best way to play and enjoy the 3DS. Just need to buy a bigger micro SD card and format it to FAT32, which you can if it's even 256GB or larger there are ways.
I would like achievements so my 0 friends on wiiu can see how good i am....seriously I don't know anyone in RL or from my PSN/Steam/battlenet friends list with a WiiU. But i would like achievements, they are pretty cool.
The author argues throughout the entire article that Nintendo should implement an achievement system, then at the last minute, says it's not important right now and moves on to just bashing the Wii U in general and pushing the reader to buy a PS4 or Xbox One. Quote in point:
"Or if you just wait until November 15 – 22, you can grab a PlayStation 4 and/or Xbox One. Both will have a bigger catalogue of software in three months time, will have actual marketing campaigns, and will at least give you re-assurance that the companies behind the hardware give a shit."
The author is simply using this flimsy achievement argument as a cheap way to push his views that the Wii U is not worth your time at all. Besides, achievements aren't important. No console NEEDS achievements. Are they fun to have? Of course, but anyone who isn't buying a Wii U because it has no achievements or trophies is just not thinking clearly.
Maybe they'll patch it in one day.
It's good for sales, there are people out there who buy games just for trophies and achievements. I wouldn't personally, but I know every trophy hunter out there has the Hannah Montana video game
I don't think it's a big deal though, I'd never not purchase a game I wanted to play because of lack of trophies
Didn't read the article, but agree with the title. Nintendo is so far behind with online it's embarrassing and I'm not just referring to cheevos and trophies. They really need to hire some people to get their online features and user accounts up to the industry standard set by Sony, Microsoft and even Valve.
Don't forget there's an update coming in October to add new features to the Wii U. I hope achievements are included.