In other words, it's never coming for Wii U and 3DS.
3ds for sure not, but they state that they will use Wii U as a test machine for their new pricing policies, so it might come there.
In other words, it's never coming for Wii U and 3DS.
In other words, it's never coming for Wii U and 3DS.
loooong way off
He's talking about their next platform, not 3DS and Wii U.
3ds for sure not, but they state that they will use Wii U as a test machine for their new pricing policies, so it might come there.
You can link and unlink NNIDs to users on the Wii U already, but currently it doesn't allow you to link an NNID that wasn't created on that console, I think? It sounds like at most there will be a need to change some server-side or client-side check.In other words, it's never coming for Wii U and 3DS.
Based on our account system, if we can offer flexible price points to consumers who meet certain conditions, we can create a situation where these consumers can enjoy our software at cheaper price points when they purchase more. Here, we do not need to limit the condition to the number of software titles they purchase. Inviting friends to start playing a particular software title is also an example of a possible condition. If we can achieve such a sales mechanism, we can expect to increase the number of players per title, and the players will play our games with more friends. This can help maintain the high usage ratio of a platform. When one platform maintains a high active use ratio, the software titles which run on it have a higher potential to be noticed by many, which leads to more people playing with more titles. When we see our overall consumers, they generally play two or three titles per year. We aim to establish a new sales mechanism that will be beneficial to both consumers and software creators by encouraging our consumers to play more titles and increasing a platforms active use ratio without largely increasing our consumers expenditures.
Nintendo aims to work on this brand-new sales mechanism in the medium term, but we would like to start experimenting with Wii U at an early stage.
Uh, is there like a hardware limitation for these changes to not be included in current systems?
3DS eShop was built without NNID, but they added it in that recent big firmware update. Nothing here is impossible.Uh, is there like a hardware limitation for these changes to not be included in current systems?
Amazingly late to that party, your other priority Nintendo Is to embrace region free games machines, y'know, like every single fucking handheld you made before the 3ds.
I really don't like how Nintendo treats old ass industry standards as some kind of inspired innovation.
I really don't like how Nintendo treats old ass industry standards as some kind of inspired innovation.
Guys the "future platform" includes 3DS and WiiU. The paragraph that quote came from includes this slide and as you can see WiiU, 3DS, and smartphones are included in this future platform as well as any future hardware.
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/140130/03.html
They are not talking about simply creating an ID that ports your Achievements to the next Xbox and leaves your games behind.
Even if this is only coming on their next consoles, it means we can buy digitally now and know we'll keep those games on our accounts. I just hope they don't take too long, they're taking a ridiculously long time with this.
Well I certainly will be interested to see how they get all these games up and running on the new systems when they can't even get old GBA games out.
loooong way off
He's talking about their next platform, not 3DS and Wii U.
Well I certainly will be interested to see how they get all these games up and running on the new systems when they can't even get old GBA games out.
loooong way off
He's talking about their next platform, not 3DS and Wii U.
Which basically means no Nintendo eShop downloads for me til this new plattform arrives.
When they say "Our future platform", I read "we're two generations late and we don't even care".
EDIT:
Even if they release an universal account system today, that would still make them almost a decade late. It's too little too late.
I wonder if this will mean crossbuy for 3DS and Wii U?
First of all, it is clearly stated that the new account system will be based on the existing NNIDs. Secondly, even if they implement fully a new account before next hardware launch it is quite probable that the new hardware won't be backwards compatible, as they probably need to change the architecture they use.
"Our future platform"
damn. WiiU is getting killed faster than GC
Their "future platform" would be this hardware-agnostic account, not a new game system."Our future platform"?
wtf
Unless they change their architecture and go x86. I'm no expert by any means, but don't take it as a given.Even if this is only coming on their next consoles, it means we can buy digitally now and know we'll keep those games on our accounts. I just hope they don't take too long, they're taking a ridiculously long time with this.