8BitChimp says, "If Mario had so many parties, where are the third-parties? Nintendo, what are you doing? The Wii U has a lot of potential to do better than it is now, but that is just not possible with a lack of third-party support."
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.
Nintendo is the Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge of gaming.
Nintendo: "Why need third parties when first parties can generate pure income and revenue for us more than them?"
Nintendo: "Third party developers and publishers can only make three games a year on the Nintendo Famicom and can not make any other games on competing platforms while still on contract."
Sony Computer Entertainment is the Neil Young of gaming.
Flea of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers:
"There's a rare contradiction in Neil Young's work. He works so hard as a songwriter, and he's written a phenomenal number of perfect songs. And, at the same time, he doesn't give a fuck. That comes from caring about essence. There can be things out of tune and all wild-sounding and not recorded meticulously. And he doesn't care. He's made whole albums that aren't great, and instead of going back to a formula that he knows works, he would rather represent where he is at the time. That's what's so awesome: watching his career wax and wane according to the truth of his character at the moment. It's never phony. It's always real. The truth is not always perfect."
Translation:
Sony CE: "Microsoft and Nintendo can get all the great 3rd party IPs that became wildly popular on the PlayStation like Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy, Monster Hunter, Tenchu, Need for Speed, Grand Theft Auto, Tekken, Bloody Roar, Tony Hawk, Dino Crisis, etc etc and we frankly my dear we don't give a damn.
We will carve out our own success story with or without you."
I hate double posts caused by lag...
Anyways, I'll be buying more third parties on Wii U when there are more third party games that have equal content support.
Not before.
The biggest issue with Nintendo's third party support is that Nintendo is actually allowing third parties to put out watered-down ports instead of ports with parity in content support.
Nintendo isn't insisting that third parties do better, and that's doing more harm than good to the console by making it look like the only console where ports are intentionally made to be piss-poor copies of their alternate-system cousins.
Without parity in content, it doesn't matter how powerful the next Nintendo system is.
No one is going to support ports on Nintendo systems as long as third parties continue to treat Nintendo ports like trash.
The gamers don't care what the reasons third parties have for these mistakes are; all gamers care about is getting a game that doesn't get its content stripped compared to other versions of said game.
And since it's the Wii U's gamers that these third parties are complaining about, it's THEM, not Nintendo or the already-established fans of third parties that are on other systems, that they need to convince to buy their ports.
Nintendo could advertise night and day for third party ports on their system.
They could run campaigns and money-hat gaming retailers to show demo units that ONLY highlight third party games on Nintendo systems.
They could do all that and so much more, and not a single bit of it would sway Nintendo gamers to get those ports.
Not so long as the other versions of those ports have more content and better support from their creators overall.
If there's any truth to the statement "Nintendo gamers only support Nintendo games", then it's because the games outside of Nintendo's games, on the Wii U, have not proven worth supporting.
Wii U gamers would rather get a PS4 or XBone to supplement their third party needs, and keep on gaming with exclusives on Nintendo systems.
If third parties want that to change, then THIRD PARTIES need to be the ones to change how they approach the system.
There's no roundabouts or excuses here. No alternatives or reasons that would convince anyone that it's okay to skip content on ports or show less support for them.
Third parties have no other options than these:
Either third parties do better on their ports as a majority, or they will not get sales from their ports and will have to switch to exclusives like Bayonetta 2 and collaborative titles like Hyrule Warriors.
If neither of those are good enough for third parties, then they should abandon the system and let more competent developers make games for the system.
Developers that know how to cater to a different kind of fan base and create games of high enough quality to draw the interest of a crowd that has been spurned by bad ports once too often.
Mario's third party is for the Nintendo 64...
@ Kimiko
Mario Party 3, eh?
To be honest, I only really remember the second one...
I think the fire jump rope challenge in that cavern area traumatized me as a kid.
All that jumping...for hours....