Ravi Bala:
"Wii U sales have been sluggish and Nintendo (OTCPK:NTDOY) has been struggling with profitability after the demise of the Wii. Now it seems that the appropriate strategy is to go from a first-party publisher to a third party publisher. However, Nintendo's wide appeal has stemmed from its beloved franchises such as Mario, Zelda and Pokemon. Going from first-party to third party is a giant step and does not always work out as planned."
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.
It would be pretty hard for anyone to pull a SEGA. As much as I loved SEGA as gaming company, they made really bad decisions. SEGA always had a wait and see mentality, If something didn't work then they just threw another product to consumers. Hell even some of the products they were going to throw out to consumers never even got released. One could only imagine the amount of R&D that was wasted on unreleased products.
SEGA Neptune
http://segaretro.org/Sega_N...
SEGA Pluto
http://segaretro.org/Sega_P...
SEGA Jupiter
http://segaretro.org/Sega_J...
SEGA VR
http://segaretro.org/Sega_V...
They were so freaking ridiculous with their funds that they tried to get into the Television market.
http://segaretro.org/Sega-V...
Lets not forget the colossal failures that were the SEGA 32x & SEGA Nomad. Probably two of the most unnecessary products SEGA ever released. The Genesis was cartridge based system and SEGA decided to release a CD add-on, fine. At that time everyone was getting into the CD format so I could understand the investment. It wasn't successful, but hey at least they tried. Then SEGA ups and decides to release a cartridge based add-on to a cartridge based system? That in itself was illogical. The SEGA Nomad..... Who's bright idea was it to release a handheld that was meant to play Genesis games? Especially after the Saturn had just released a couple of months prior? It was big waste of resources that should have been put towards the Saturn. Another big part in SEGA's demise was that they were manufacturing way too many products at one time. The Master System, Genesis, Game Gear, Nomad & Saturn were all being manufactured at the same time. One could only imagine the amount of resources that were being drained. SEGA Saturn failing also didn't help their predicament.
There are so many things that contributed to SEGA's downfall. The fact that people seem to think that Nintendo's is following the path of SEGA really baffles me. The sad part is that the "so-called" journalists that write those type of pieces are as mis-informed as the gamers who say stuff as such. It's like I said, I loved SEGA as a gaming company. SEGA did some great things in the industry, but their good was severely outweighed by the bad business decisions.
"Wii U sales have been sluggish"
Still going off pre-SM3DW sales eh
Never go full SEGA.
I just hope this is a huge wake up call for Nintendo. I hope they come back with a vengeance and make one of the most affordable/cutting edge next gen systems and focus on old and new ips, also making their online comparable to Sony and Microsoft and not so archaic with how you add friends and the system in general. They come hard like that and id be all over it and buy it immediately.
And damn i loved Sega lol too bad they went under like that i was so hype when i bought my Saturn.
pull a SEGA? you mean create games that innovated in the gameplay AND graphics department? (480p rez at 60FPS while PS1 and n64 were doing 320x240i with no online play) yeah they definitely arent going to do that, so dont worry ;) that'd be like them releasing a 4K capable system with every title being MMO capable after the PS3/360. yeah, if you cant tell the author of this post is a ninty fanboy.