The video game development industry is known for a lot of things, but innovation and creativity simply aren't among them. A new console has presented an easy opportunity for innovation, like its predecessor, but the opportunity is being wasted like never before. The Wii U, for third parties at least, apparently is going to be thrown aside when it should present an opportunity to add new and innovative features to games.
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's to early, someone will come up with something cool to use the gamepad. It looking like Ubisoft might be the Second. Nintendo will come up with something amazing.
Agree with some of this, but Sega has a great deal with Nintendo 3 exclusives, Ubisoft is fully supporting Nintendo and they have hinted at Zombi U 2. We have the Eternal Darkness successor in the works for Wii U and PC. No question there are some great 3rd party exclusives coming to Wii U, and FINALLY some AAA 1st party games coming this year. It is going to be a good 3 and 4th quarter for Wii U owners.
The gamepad has hidden potential. Unfortunately we have not seen it yet. I expect when the heavy hitters come out (i.e mario, zelda, metroid, etc), then we will see nintendo's vision for the wii U