The Man Cave Cinema writes, with the imminent release of next gen consoles, will Nintendo be relevant any more? Will the shear horsepower of the new xbox and PS4 make the WiiU just a mere toy?
Not getting into a fanboy flame war, but I feel sorry for Nintendo for being short sighted with their next gen hardware. Nintendo and their hardware will be irrelevant by next year!
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.
Depends wether or not it gets good 3rd party support and at the moment it doesnt look as tho its gonna have that big a lead in user base by the time the ps4 and new xbox release, can you see lets say EA release BF4 on wii-u? and the fact that games are just gonna look allot better on the new consoles.
its hard to tell with nintendo. This gen they had the weakest hardware, bad 3rd party support, lots of low reviews... and sold the most systems, DAMN!
during the holidays, the wii u will be kicked into total irrelevancy. as the PS4 and 720 "wow" audiences with their innovative graphics, games, features, and online, the wii u will be trailing behind, barely catching up to current gen, and pumping out the same milked franchises we have played a dozen times over.
nintendo messed up. they should have waited a year, beefed up the hardware, and got more third parties on board. I guess they expected the casuals to carry them to victory, but it didnt happen. too bad
Yeah they're still pointing to sales.
80,000 for WiiU
165,000 for Ps3
223,000 for Xbox...
but they don't mention that Wii also sold 80,000, and 3ds is still selling. So Nintendo is still making more money on hardware and software.
Try Again!!
To the media? Probably not. As long as Nintendo can keep profiteering off of software and with hardware as it cheapens with time then I think they will be financially sound. My guess is we will see Nintendo try to appeal to the western market a tad more.
Besides, it looks like Microsoft and Sony are doing something entirely different with their machines, similarly to the previous generation. I guess we'll see how things play out.