Satoru Iwata has told investors that Nintendo will wait until next year to reveal the price and release date for Wii U.
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.
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Nintendo thinks that M$ ( and Sony ) will launch a next gen console as well and are keeping their cards to their chest as this game of who will launch and when continues...there are no secrets at this level. You can't build a console in secret tho the 360 S was pretty darn close.
Why don't they want to talk about price??? Why haven't they even released the specs??? Niny is under extreme pressure right now and they are taking on a massive amount of water as they try to calm fears that they waited to long to launch the Wii-U. I said a long time ago they were sitting on money but they have a saying about these types of things..." when it goes, it goes FAST "...Niny is learning that the hard way. As soon as M$ announced Kinect and Sony announced the Move...Niny needed to move on, but they didn't because they think their crap doesn't smell, now, hundreds of millions of dollars lost later, they look like fools...never underestimate your opponents. Apple is killing them on one side while M$ and Sony are divide and conquering on the other. :o
They should of launched the Wii-U this year with Zelda, Mario and Metroid as launch title's but now they have to take a beating till holiday 2012...O_o...incredible greed and shortsightedness. The shareholders must be in panic mode and wondering how this could happen to Nintendo...maybe they forgot about the under performing Gamecube days...lol...it wasn't that long ago. ;)
@ Iam...the specs is the big tip off that Nintendo is aware of movement from Sony and M$ and don't want them to know...they know already. The development kits are in the hands of the devs so as I said, at this level, there are no secrets. The launch of the 360 S was a trial run for the next Xbox and it went off without a hitch. It featured much of the patented specs the new Xbox will have. Expect a Quad with a custom AMD chip...no surprises. Sony will launch with much the same thing...think PS Vita only bigger.
because nothin is final yet, are the spec even final? like u said there are no secrets by next year they probably will have found out about the ps4/720 price and specs so could be waiting to see what happens there, they dident move on once sony and ms released there versions of motion control? i think they moved on as soon as the wii was released, while ms and sony were focusing on developing and releasing the ps3/360 nintendo were developing there motion control, they did not have to put money or development into a console last gen because all it was at the end of the day was the gamecube from the gen before put in a new sparkly white exterior. this time they need to spend the money they made and bring out something decent
All I heard from the specs was it said to have DX 10.1 and 6gb of flash ram :\
nintendo have to take the time and analyze all the market right...but between 250 and 350 is the right price