Critical Gamer writes: While Nintendo have had a lot of success with the 3DS, they are struggling to sell the Wii U, even with the release of a top notch Super Mario game. So where did it all go so wrong, and what can they do to help turn things around?
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.
Decent article, but this is the same thing I said about them going 3rd party: They already said no. Thee won't be any mobile games anytime soon unless it's a demo. Unless they screw up WORSE than they are now, they're not gonna tell the people who develop hardware and work on hardware that they no longer have a job and they'll be working on something that might get old soon. Remember that less than 15% of mobile gamers invest money.
How can Nintendo turn their fortunes around?
#1 Do far, FAR better with their advertisement efforts.
The games so far, and coming up, are GREAT GAMES. They just need VIRAL ADVERTISEMENT.
Even the best games won't sell systems if they aren't hyped up a bit so people can get excited once they've seen the ads for them.
#2 Get more EXCLUSIVES from sources, and ANNOUNCE MORE GAMES MORE OFTEN.
They've got tons of indie support coming, but they don't advertise it much.
They COULD be getting sales for third party exclusives and stuff if they'd offer advertisement efforts for them too.
They're making it seem like they've got too little coming by keeping all the juicy projects close to their chests.
It's time to open the flood-gates.
#3 IGNORE ALL THE IDIOTS TELLING THEM TO DITCH CONSOLES AND GO MOBILE/THIRD PARTY.
Se-ri-ous-ly! Anyone who thinks ANY idea like those is a viable long-term plan for helping Nintendo survive another two or three generations, needs to get their damned heads checked.
Casuals would move on too quickly to the rest of the overwhelming amount of casual games on phones, so Nintendo would have too tough a time keeping their games relevant to these fickle and quick-moving consumers who expect short games instead of long-winded Mario games that take time to play through and complete.
Similarly, people who love the competition more than Nintendo frequently bash the company AND its games for being everything from "Stuck in the past" to "Kiddy" to "Out-of-touch" to "rehashed crap that never changes", etc etc etc.
Most of them would gladly choose something like a sequel to The Last of Us over the next Mario game, anyways. There's no way you'd see Mario 3D World outsell something like The Witcher if they came out near the same time on a system where third party sells best out of everything.
The other systems are not where Nintendo's fan base is and they are not where Nintendo would be able to get maximum profit, especially considering the fees they'd have to pay to get their games onto those consoles.
Nintendo's games would not sell to these people long enough to keep Nintendo alive. It's really just that simple.