The latest Nintendo Investors Meeting has come and gone, and thanks to our friends at neogaf we’ve had a steady stream of Q&A translations that show Nintendo has been doing a little future proofing and isn’t quite ready to give up on the Wii U.
It seems Nintendo is trying to get some third party assistance, if not with games directly then with the production of assets and cut-scenes to help speed up their ability to release games of Nintendo quality in a prompt and swift manner. Miyamoto also claimed that a lot of the growing pains from their first experiences with new developmental techniques are behind them, and now that they have a better base of knowledge there should be far less delays than previously experienced. This is great news because a large problem with the Wii U was the crippling delays of first party titles when the system was already suffering from 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."
A new list goes over eight of the the most useless amiibo, ranging from the Shadow Mewtwo card to the Qbby figure.
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.
Games on the WiiU have this element of fun that somehow I cannot find in other systems. Also, it's hard to buy a third party port when the first party games are so well made and fun.
Third parties often develop for a platform that's either easier to develop for or more popular. Luckily for them, the console that's easier to develop for is often the most popular because of their games.
The PS3 was the stronger of the two systems, excluding the Wii here because it required its own specialized ports do to the relatively weak hardware, but it constantly got inferior ports of games because it was difficult to develop for and had a much smaller install base than the 360 in the beginning. There are odd ducks here and there, but that's how things generally work.
Besides, the Wii U had better capabilities than 7th gen consoles and still had some inferior ports to them.
I have played bith AC 3 and 4 on the Wii U, and they didnt feel worse than 360 or PS3.
Darksiders 2 made more sense on Wii U because of the gamepad, as did ME3 and Deus Ex.
I wouldnt call them shovelware, like I wouldnt call Kingdoms of Amalur that way because it lacks fullscreen blooming completely on PS3 which makes it less moody.
Actually Black flag looks almost on par with PS4/Xbxone versions.