Shocking revelations! Scandalous leaks! Yes, welcome to silly season. We analyse all the facts and rumours ahead of E3 2012...
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.
"But the fact that the idea was even fielded is important. Rumours may not reflect Nintendo's thinking, but they do reflect the public's. These are stories cooked up by gamers hoping to make sense of Wii U. They give the machine incredi-specs, correct its perceived flaws and imagine a bright online future - all the things we'd change if we could. This feature isn't intended to shoot down flights of fancy, but to show how 'boring' reality may just trump them."
And that the most important part of any rumor. Rumors are generally ridiculous in nature and reflect what the public/small proportion of the public want to see. At the end of the day its all bull anyway
The truth is, there isn't any. All we can do is wait until E3 and hear from Nintendo themselves.
This is a really in-depth article examining all the WiiU rumors and what could realistically come of them. I particularly enjoyed the speculation on upcoming games. Nice to see a piece where the author has actually done some homework and isn't just making things up as he goes along (aside from the bits of harmless speculation such as Nintendo will start making toys again, etc.). Good read.
Holy crap, a speculative [Wii U] article that cites facts in its analysis? I think N4G is about to implode upon itself.
Why articles that take an educated look at the wii u rumors barley gets any attention here while any negative crap hits the first page?