Four years after revolutionizing the electronic gaming industry with its "motion-sensitive" Wii entertainment console, Nintendo finds itself at a cross roads.
Make that crosshairs.
With sales down a full third this year, and rivals Microsoft and Sony poised to leapfrog it in terms of new gaming technology, many are wondering how one of the most successful innovators of the last 20 years would end up in a defensive battle against would-be disrupters.
The answer has a lot to do with the company's product development model.
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.
That's silly, their doing fine, they've sold tons upon tons of consoles, the wii is still selling alright. Granted it's not booming but thats really not a big deal.
Thoir best bet and most likely course of events is releasing thoir next system around the time the other companies release theirs, possibly a bit sooner.
I'm sure they've already got it mostly designed, so they'll probably be working on some stellar release games and working the price down.
They are were they are because they havent actually innovated in 20yrs! and now that the big boys have caught up with the motion control the cracks are showing. apart from Wii remote they have just banged out the same underpowered, underfeatured unit generation after generation. no dvd playback?! no decent HD or Harddrive! whats all that about! personally I cant stand any of the motion control i do enough excercise in the day without spazing about in front of my xbox when I get home!
They have innovated in capturing a new market, but technically the only companies innovating with motion controls on the wii have been 3rd parties.
Nintendo in house have been turning the wii mote on its side and going back to NES days.... what the hell does that say about innovating gameplay lol.
Master of all knowledge says they haven't innovated in 20yrs. Just to let you know the gamecube had the best hardware of last gen consoles, ibm power pc gecco. Sony and micrsoft switched to ibm this gen. You're probably not even twenty yrs old. The n64 was the first console to use rumble, then everyone else jumped on the bandwagon.