"Andrew Wang of Celtic Gamer writes" Don't get me wrong, I love the WiiU, in fact, I'm rooting for it. Ever since I was young, I always played Nintendo. I had a N64, Gameboy and DS. I was pretty obsessed with Nintendo like a lot of people were at that time. Although as time past, so did my enjoyment over Mario and Zelda. Nintendo was nothing more than a mere memory.
Sure, I would invite some friends and play Super Smash Brother's Brawl or Mario Kart together, but I felt that the Wii was just a Mario console. It had no third-party support, and no multi platform games. Lets be honest here, the Wii was nothing more than a console to play first party games. Soon after the Wii sold over 100 million consoles, the WiiU came along. The unfortunate timing eventually led to the demise of the WiiU.
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.
It's far from being abandoned! Almost 6 million adoptees would say otherwise, but Nintendo really needs to push that 3rd party support, and play to the consoles strengths.
Have to disagree about the original wii getting no 3rd party support. Most of the wii titles i own are third party. It got a decent bit of support because it sold so well, and a lot of 3rd party exclusives because of the hardware gap.
Wii U is getting railed by the press right now, but its mostly due to Nintendo's mistakes not 3rd parties abandoning them.
The Hardware is far more powerful then the press would have you believe. But Nintendo just needs better marketing, And more 3rd Party Exclusives that people want, and far quicker, no more game delays and shedule changes.
There plan to get 3rd parties to work on forgotten IPS like Metroid, Starfox, Bomberman will get the ball rolling soon, glad they finally admitted their mistakes.
Also they're probably going to acquire Capcom and some other companies, which is great. Street Fighter and Resident Evil will be Wii U exclusive and Resident Evil 7 will be a Reboot.
They're mistakes are the issue, not 3rd party. 3rd Party games generally have to compete with Nintendo 1st Party, they have little incentive to release games on the console. Especially when you have to compete with Nintendo's heavy hitters.
New Title " Not an Abandoned Masterpiece by millions of gamers that purchased the machine ....