NowGamer: Third-party publishers can't seem to get a fair slice of that 70m user pie. games™ finds out why...
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.
because people brought wii to play all the great 1st party titles
"Why Now Gamer is an authority on anything: Nobody Knows"
...would be closer to the real heading of this article.
Piracy is a "major" factor in disappointing Wii third party sales, couple of my friend bought a Wii just so they could hookup their external hard drive to it and play downloaded games.
Xbox 360 is not in the same boat as the Wii because you actually have more to loose if you mod a 360(Xbox live ban).
Wii is probably the easiest system to mod, which is a sad thing if your a legit Wii owner(lack of third party support do to piracy).
I can give a simple answer to NowGamer's hyperbole-instilled article title.
Third-party developed Wii games sucked initially, leading consumers to have a negative view of third-party developers. At the same time, Nintendo was consistently making solid games, thus instilling consumers with confidence in Nintendo software. There were third-party gems, but for every 1 decent/acceptable third-party game, there were 10 bad ones. Consumer confidence is the best way to obtain consistent sales, and third-parties didn't show any amount of effort until a precedent of trash had already been established.
In other words: The good third-party games were too little, too late.
I heard that piracy is very easy on wii, maybe this is one of the reason why so many third-party games fail.
And the ds is suffering from the same problem.