Nintendo recently announced it would be adding Nintendo 64 and Nintendo DS games to the Wii U Virtual Console. The news is exciting for the Wii U as it adds a considerable “buy me” factor for Nintendo’s current console. Nintendo has always been a company that has relied heavily on its nostalgia factor. Being able to play past favorites like Mario 64 and Donkey Kong 64 is a smart move for the company. Something about this news that is worrisome is that it falls into the recent trend that many have noticed lately coming from the long-time industry leader. Whether it’s Amiibos, NintendoDirect/Virtual Console versions of past generation titles, or the recent news about plans to work on Nintendo mobile games with DeNA, all these improvements are reactionary.
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
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."
$9.99 for Mario64!?
The should charge that for 4 hours of play ;)
Wait, so you're somehow tying the release if virtual console titles to the NX?
Why? All that's happening is that we get to play N64 and DS games on the Wii U. This shouldn't cause ANY controversy, and we certainly shouldn't be worried about it.
Wait.... how is it reactionary? Nintendo was the first to announce a classic games service library in 2005 and then released classic games in the Wii's virtual console service for years. So how is this reactionary to Sony and Microsoft who started releasing classic games much later?
So because I'm buying classics on my Wii U that is somehow a bad thing for Nintendo? I wish I could do the same on my PS4.
virtual console is a great thing.
the only problem is that it should be unified. the technology exists so that it should be easy to implement and whatever we buy on virtual console should be available on any devices we decide to play it on.
its also about time that nintendo allows us to play gamecube games on the wiiU. if they did that then the wiiU would be the ultimate nintendo machine. we all know it is capable of playing gamecube games because of the hacks that enabled that feature.
same should apply to ps4 aswell, psone games should be enabled. ps2 should be emulated because we all know the ps4 is powerful enough for this.