IGN: Wii Storage Solution Urgent, Says Nintendo

nintendostar - 511 days 14 hours ago

I think we both can agree they aren't necessarily short on dollars

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Altered_Soul - 511 days 11 hours ago

Do you want them to use their time machine that they quite obviously possess and change it all?

Or would it be less of a fan disservice if they just left it at its current state? Complaining about how they will implement it (when/if they release some details) is more useful than providing a half baked criticism that doesn't really make any sense upon second reading.

They messed up by underestimating what certain features would do their system better in the long run. Now they are offering a fix, that hopefully actually fixes the problem. Do I think they were ridiculous in order to ignore this stuff to begin with? Yes of course, but even the other consoles have had problems that they have rectified. Nintendo is just, well, slower than others. It must be the bricks of cash overflowing their Scrooge McDuck vault.

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Torch - 511 days 11 hours ago

See, but that's the thing.

I'd bet my left testicle that this was all part of the grand scheme of things. I can't even begin to fathom that all those smart cookies at Nintendo overlooked such obvious flaws.

But that goes well in hand with Nintendo's shrewd business and marketing practices. Not unlike those cut-throat overlords over at Disney, Nintendo has done an absolutely FABULOUS job at portraying as an innocent, family-friendly corporate image who treats revenue as secondary or irrelevant - of which the opposite is blatantly true.

And people continue to buy into it. In the eyes of their target market, Nintendo can do no wrong...and they're rolling in and generating enough dough to not care what us so-called "core gamers" think about their strategies.

This is why I'm one of the rare few who thought that their Romper Room performance at E3 was brilliant.

As far as I'm concerned, everything they showcased is either shovelware, or pricey, needless add-ons.

But you can bet your life that there'll be line ups as usual, when Wii Music and all that other useless crap hit the market. And the best part is, that by the time they're done with buying all these redundant add-ons, they're WELL beyond the price point of more superior products such as the 360 and PS3 - even though consensus opinion would claim otherwise.

Therefore, this is why I am unable to excuse them for, as you put it: "messing up." Because I don't think they did.

My aforementioned disservice to their core market is not the result of not responding to their needs; it's because of their underhanded, calculating methods for creating false needs by the likes of storage solutions or <ahem>enhanced controller add-ons.

It's a slap in the face to their loyal (read: uninformed) customers, really.

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jtucker78 - 510 days 21 hours ago

Bubbles Torch, you're a smart cookie!

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