Nintendo Enthusiast writes: You would expect the gaming media to be providing us with some careful analysis on the launch of the Wii U. You'd also be wrong.
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.
Huzaifa from eXputer: "The Nintendo Partner Spotlight sale event has discounted a number of worthy titles on the Switch. Here are 6 of them you should check out."
it's crazy o'clock on gaming journalism.
Yeah, it does seem like some game journalists want Nintendo to fail. I think it might have something to do with being resentful of how Nintendo doesn't really listen to their fans (or game journalists). Windwaker's art style, the rumble pack, motion control, two screen handheld, two screen console: NO ONE asked for any of that. Nintendo acts like a parent who says "Look, I just spent a long time making this meat loaf. Eat it, you'll like it." While the game journalists throw a fit because they just want macaroni and cheese. And if they wanted something new it would be double macaroni in a bigger bowl with more cheese. Of course when they finally try the meat loaf it turns out to be like this delicious meat-splosion. Like, with four different perfectly seasoned meats in a combination that had been heretofore untasted. I think I'm losing the focus of my metaphor.
Some game journalists don't like being ignored by Nintendo. They want Nintendo to fail so they can say told you so.
Smash this machine media....Nintendo has been getting too much positive press over the years, if it was justified good press, I would not have issue, but when Sony copped NON-STOP crap from EVERY western media site, magazine & the fanboys to boot, for stuff as stupid as, "giant enemy crabs", "Riiiiidge Racer", & that stuff that was funny the 1st few months & 1000 times, but wore thin & showed just how unfunny it really was, & how immature we could be.
Clever insults are clever insults, but the crap put on Sony for years straight, simply because they were such a dominant force for 2 gens straight, is one of the biggest acts of media beat up scumbaggery ever, & there will probably never be a witch hunt as unjustified & intensive as that EVER again in journalism as a whole....I mean, Osama Bin Ladin copped less flack from journo's & the interweb, James Hardy, BP, ESSO & all the companies that have spilt oil across our oceans killing & destroying entire eco systems & thus animal life on a mass scale, thus business & peoples jobs that relied on those waterways.
The fact is, Nintendo have taken gaming back a gen. ever since SNES, by sticking with cartridge with N64 & due to there years of running a communist-like business structure that really hurt any 3rd party developer with astronomical proprietry cartridge license formats, to offering absolutely no development tools or any help to 3rd parties, & the list goes on. Sony broke down the flood walls for the betterment of gamers in a big way....I mean, I bought Tekken Tag 2 from my local JB Hi Fi for $69 the other day, in comparison, I bought SF2 on my SNES for $99, I got Sleeping Dogs on my PS3 for $69, yet I paid $120au for Mario All Stars on my SNES 20 so years ago.....
Then theres the fact Sony smashed down social barriers & misconceptions about gamers in a big way with PSone.
Sony took the mantle of innovator from both Sega & Nintendo & amplified it, raising the bar. I care not what anyone says, as it's the truth.
Even MS are more innovative than Nintendo, just check there awesome, ever evolving, benchmark, online service with Live.
Nintendo are gone, dead, buried.....they just don't know it yet.
Well, it is kind of funny state of affairs in the gaming media. There is always some platform that the media loves to hate each generation. Before WiiU, the PS3 was the favourite whipping boy of the gaming press. Oh well, at least the PS3 has been given a rest from the doom and gloom predictions since WiiU came on the scene. Now its WiiU's turn to enjoy the whipping and spanking.
Sounds like writers everywhere are trying to save their job/s by getting hits.
Like a bunch of "journalism" crack heads.