The internet is handing Sony the crown for the console war. But they’re not the winners: we the gamers are.
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.
Well if the console is successful (doesnt matter who makes it) then gamers win. But if the console dies an early death (like the dreamcast) then people who bought the system lose.
Im not to worried about Sonys or Microsofts success with their respective consoles but Nintendo with the Wii U worries me a lot especially the lack of 3rd party support and the consoles weak hardware.
P.S First ;)
I would really like to see more positive attitude articles like this one instead of all the mud slinging and trash talking from both sides. I must be getting old.
A la Highlander... there can only be one.... on N4G anyways...
Jaysus, Lukas, you could not make any more sense, perfect statement and immediately a disagree.... I swear there are people on this site, just like Dark matter, you cannot see them, you only know they are there from disagrees... they never comment either I guess... you can probably tell when they masturbate too... disagrees stop for a few minutes...
Biased brand loyalists only win half of the pie, they miss out on an entire generation of games in some cases purely because they think they owe their loyalty to a certain company. Sad.
I keep saying No matter what goes down we all win...unless you own a Nintendo exclusively =P