GamaSutra - Last week Nintendo released information about the first half of its current fiscal year, and as a numbers kind of person, I always enjoy adding the latest shipment figures to my personal trove of data. When I last looked at the state of Nintendo's handheld business back in June, we were looking at how the imminent launch of the Nintendo 3DS XL might affect the company's handheld sales.
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.
The pro iOS crowd will completely ignore this article.
Your entire argument is predicated on the assumption that more market share=good and less market share=bad.
If the market is SUSTAINABLE, then it doesn't matter how big the market is. If I sell honey out of my garage to three dozen people a month and I can make a profit off of that, then it doesn't MATTER that local grocery stores move one thousand units a month to their customers. I still have a profitable market. If I'm happy with that market, who are YOU to say that I should just "give up" selling honey out of my garage? There are tons of products on the market with low market shares. So why act like handheld game consoles are any different when the market exists? Why act like ONE MARKET is the only viable option?
So, I took the "jab" because all I hear from the iOS crowd is that "Nintendo and Sony are doomed", but that isn't how markets work. Just because you don't have the biggest market share doesn't mean that a smaller market is futile.
We wouldn't jab at you guys if you didn't keep hitting us with twisted interpretations of how markets work just to wound us. Someone who does that is ignorant or mean or both. There is no fourth option as I see it.
So many hot 3DS games incoming! Paper Mario, Bravely Default, Dragon Quest 7, Luigi's Mansion 2, Animal Crossing, Castlevania, Monster Hunter 3 and 4 etc.