History’s biggest blunders from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and Sega.
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.
SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
I don't think Don Mattrick's unbelievably stupid comment will ever be forgotten.
"Microsoft went on to catalogue a host of unpopular features including a 24-hour online check-in, always on Kinect, blocked use of second hand games and strict DRM."
That right there is the first of many fatal flaws Microsoft made with the Xbone and it still amazes me to see them make blunder after blunder to this day. Truly "The Biggest Screw-Up in Gaming History".
This seems like a run up to MS xbox one reveal while missing out on many other complete disasters. Ill list some of mine that I have witnessed.
Nintendo choosing cartridge over disk for the N64. This allowed a lower powered PS1 to have cd quality music pre rendered cut scenes that where a cut and above what nintendo could offer. It took Capcom years to figure out how to compress to the cartridge memory limitations to give us a great but late copy of RE2
Atari Jaguar. A machine seemingly designed to play Alien vs Predator and not much else whilst wrongfully boasting 64 bit power.
SEGA's attempts at prolonging the life of the mega drive/genesis. 32X plus mega cd to get a half decent Batman returns game and loads of games featuring crap actors in pixalated video cd.
Sorry for the history lesson but their has been a lot more and worse mistakes than what MS did, but at least they have started to turn it around just like Sony with the PS3
The mistakes of the other campanies could have or have killed the companies (like SEGA with the Dreamcast) but M$ has enough money to buy them all and fail with the next 10 console generations and they would do everything to crush the competitors. Thats a reason why i don't support microsoft anymore, cause they have no conscience. And yes the new praised features of the XBONE were one of the biggest screw-ups in gaming history.