If one thing is certain after this week’s financial results press conference by Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, it’s this: When it comes to the Big N’s future, pretty much anything could happen.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
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.
Iwata said, in an interview, "Mr. Yamauchi (former President Hiroshi Yamauchi) often said "Shitsui-taizen, Tokui-reizen," meaning that we should act regally when things are bad, and be calm when things are going well." Were he alive now, he would tell me to carry an air of confidence."
My current avatar is of former President Hiroshi Yamauchi, he died last year.
"Pretty much anything could happen".
Except for going mobile, going third party, dropping the game pad, and dropping out of consoles altogether.
Sorry haters, but Nintendo's here to stay even if the Wii U doesn't out-sell the others by the end of this generation.
As for the heads of Nintendo not being worried, I disagree.
Of course they're worried.
The thing is, it would be very stupid of them to let that affect their attitudes going forward.
Attitude is half the equation to success. If your attitude sucks then you're not going to make nearly as much progress as if you have a clear head and hopes of improvement, after recognizing where you've gone wrong.
The heads of Nintendo have done a lot of apologizing and flaw-acknowledgement lately, and those are important first steps towards positive change.
And after all of the positive news announced in their recent meeting, despite the feelings of shareholders, I think they have the right to feel a little confident about their ability to turn things around.
The one thing that might hold them back at this point is lack of substantial advertisement.
Like it or not, hype sells things.
If Nintendo wants their games to make the system recover, alongside all the changes they're making to the system and its services in the near future, they NEED to put a renewed, laser-like focus on viral advertisement of their most important upcoming core gaming titles.
Mario Kart, Bayonetta, X, Smash Bros, and tons of others from them all need a boost to their level of market saturation, and that can't happen unless Nintendo really gets on-the-ball with getting new news about currently-known and not-yet-announced titles.
More Nintendo Directs, more TV advertisements, more internet ads being blasted.
They have to SOAK the market with their advertisements, if they want to see some real improvement in their sales numbers, because one of the biggest factors is that there are still people out there that don't even know that the Wii U is a thing![I actually ran into one today; one of the guys in my home had no idea that Nintendo had actually made a new system a year back, and he plays games frequently]
Get Viral with your advertisements, Nintendo.
Do so and you'll be in a much better position to get the Wii U into homes.
And if you REALLY want to hit a Grand Slam in marketing, offer Indies your support to get TV ads up and running for their games, to entice more casuals to come and try things on the small-scale side of the indie pond on your system.
No one's doing that right now, so there's no guarantee it would work, but it's a risk worth taking, especially in your position, because it would show a level of support for indie companies that few others can boast of.
Well, Nintendo knows what's going on at Nintendo best. For all we know there could be a Pokemon MMO in development for the Wii U that could save it. We wouldn't know that, only Nintendo would.
Because Nintendo knows they are fine even if they dont sell another Wii U. Unlike the rest of the internet that has no idea how business works.
Nintendo as a business will be fine but Wii U will not be at it's current pace. We thought we had a great game line up for 2014 but from recent news it looks like we have DK then zilch until MK8 in May. That's a long time for things to be stagnant and Wii U bashing to continue it's trend. If they're planning on holding everything else back until the next holiday season there will be a lot of disappointed fans out there and a lot more months of the same crap.