This week, President Satoru Iwata attempted to explain what will be done to stop the bleeding caused by the Wii U’s poor performance as he stood before weary investors in Tokyo.
The most promising planned changes to Nintendo’s gaming business relate to the way the company treats user accounts and the overall responsiveness of the Wii U console. Here’s the thing though: there’s no escaping the fact that these ostensible improvements amount to catch-up. For most of the past 10 years, Nintendo’s been behind the technology curve in terms of what its core audience wants. While Microsoft and Sony put effort into consolidating their network infrastructures and improving usability, Nintendo contented itself with pinning its future to an admittedly innovative control scheme. It turned out great for the Wii, but now the company is in the awkward position of hyping its fans on features that are simply expected in the modern-day gaming environment.
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.
I don't believe Nintendo even have a clear plan when dealing with the Wii U..They thought the pad would be enough to generate huge sales for the console like motion controls did for the original Wii..Nintendo weren't prepared to enter the HD/online era of gaming now they are playing catch up.
With this, Nintendo is actually innovating a little. Nintendo said that they plan on keeping BC (Nintendo is the only one who plans to keep offering this) on their next gen system. He said that he wants to keep users connected and never have to rebuild an install base. This all points torwards your games following you onto your onto the next gen system.
What he said also suggested that they would never have to rebuild the e-shop every new generation. Everything would flow over. Iwata's ideas did show that they had a lot to catch up on, but it was hardly following the leader. The only part that resembles what Sony and Microsoft are doing is the part with games being integrated attached to your NNID.
Find a better article, Chrono. You're losing your touch.
WiiU will have the definitive version of all your favorite games
Catch up my ass. Show me how I can play TLoU on PS4 or Halo 4 on Xbox One without rebuying the game. Show me how I can get my games at a cheaper price just by following some simple conditions (no subscription required also). Show me Sony and Microsoft's plan to make a third health and quality of life-centric platform. Show me Sony and Microsoft's intent to buy more game studios (Rather than selling them off to lessen the debt weight).
That's right you can't. They aren't merely trying to meet what Sony and MS are doing, they are looking to surpass it.
Try again, Chrono.
Nintendo was the leasder in 2013, killing MS and Sony in terms of hardware and software sales.
Sure, you can write a stupid article like this pinpointing a feature they do better and then generalize a false statement, but Nintendo is in the best position its every been vs those 2.