My nephew has a Nintendo Wii that his parents bought him when he was three. He had no idea how to play, but of course like most children, he learned.
Now we play together all the time, we even play on the PlayStation 3 occasionally. As we play, I can’t help but think back to how gaming was when I was a little kid. I just always stop there and think about how much has changed and how different our early console gaming experiences were, and the type of things young gamers take for granted.
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.
"Driver was a technical achievement for PS1, a pioneer in cinematic gaming, and an often brutal challenge - TechStomper asks if its brand of 70s car chase antics still holds up."
Sadly youd be hard pressed to find any driving game with better physics these days. But the draw distance really kills it for me
Wow. This is easy karma if someone wants to post it to reddit.com/r/lewronggeneration .
I think being able to turn your console on from a wireless controller is a big thing most people dont think about. Recently started replaying final fantasy 12 and I kept forgetting that I had to get up.
I think HD is something there is too much focus on. I grew up with the NES, Im happy with even the worst PS1 graphics, as long as I am having fun
Fortunately for my son, about to turn 3, I own all of the old stuff still. I used to think that keeping the old stuff would be a great idea since it is cheap old junk that he can tear up. However these days some of the old games and systems are worth some money again. Either way I will let him play them so he can appreciate where the new stuff came from.
Am I the only one who didnt find these things compelling. I mean I really do like that some of these have been changed but things like wireless controllers is nice but I was playing with a wired controller (Razer) on my xbox 360...
the whole no patches thing is a double edged sword. The author mentions BF4 issues which I would say in response it wouldn't have shipped with all those problems except for the fact they know they can "fix" it post launch. I think it makes publishers rush to market faster than they should. Patches should be the EXCEPTION not the RULE. I think developers take patches for granted.
Downloadable games is great but I still go to midnight releases, and with everyone complaining about not having physical disks I would say this isn't something that is taken for granted.
and the whole gfx thing can be said about every generation.
The article forgot the biggest 2.
Automatic saves for virtually every game. No more forgeting to manually save and losing 2 hours of gaming.
Abundance of checkpoints.