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Rumor: Nintendo Offering 'Insane Incentives' to Promote Wii U E-Shop.
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Colonel Mustard
Banned
Pretty encouraging news if true.
GrandHarrier
Member
Only problem is you have to have a Nintendo platform. And buy games on it. Two strikes, imo.
tanooki141
Member
Wow, did not expect this from Nintendo.
Consider me impressed.
Consider me impressed.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
One huge "I'll believe it when I see it" with this story, but I hope it's true.
Syphon Filter
Member
Very nice to see from Nintendo especially. They should have a section for each console they have created and then have the entire library for them sold to consumers.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
Any time Nintendo actively tries to make development on their platforms more appealing to pubs and devs it's big news.
Mr Killemgood
Member
But are they going to support it outside of simple incentives?
It doesn't matter what cut the developer/publisher gets if no one knows where the market is, where the games are, or have sufficient disk space on whatever storage solution Nintendo packs in with the hardware.
Sure, it'll give them a good initial boost, but if a developer can sell 2, 3, or 4x as many units on other systems for a slightly smaller cut..
It doesn't matter what cut the developer/publisher gets if no one knows where the market is, where the games are, or have sufficient disk space on whatever storage solution Nintendo packs in with the hardware.
Sure, it'll give them a good initial boost, but if a developer can sell 2, 3, or 4x as many units on other systems for a slightly smaller cut..
CrAzYLeGzLU
Member
You can use any usb external HDD with it.
Just a heads up: this website also claims that Rockstar said GTAV is coming to the Wii U.
http://wiiudaily.com/2012/03/grand-theft-auto-5-coming-to-wii-u-in-2013/
http://wiiudaily.com/2012/03/grand-theft-auto-5-coming-to-wii-u-in-2013/
Compatible with any external USB drive.
I didnt know about this. Thanks.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
You'll probably only have enough storage to download one game (if that game is under 8 gigs).
From there you've got the sandisk option, or external HDD.
Nintendo seems to expect gamers dedicated to downloading will be willing to buy an external form of storage.
Just what I want next to my tv... Sounds greats...
My wife will love "more wires" as she puts it. They need to come up with a dock that will connect the wiiu console itself with room for a 2.5" drive. That would be awesome.
They are using 25GB bluray disk in the wiiu right? So you couldnt even get one game. Then you have patches and updates. Not much storage.
Backfoggen
Banned
Must be true if its on Wiiudaily.com.
No source in the article.
So it's Leslie Knope.
Edit: 3 months ago looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Thunder Monkey
Banned
You've never been enthusiastic about the system, I'm not particularly either, but do you really have to go into every thread about it and piss and moan like you expected any better?
grimshawish
Banned
Good news, I think for 3DS/WiiU to be big big successes Nintendo have to really win online.
3DS e-shop is pretty good, if expensive - hopefully the WiiU will offer an even wider array of titles as it should be good to port from PC.
Would Eurogamer publish if they didn't have some more info - or it didn't fit stuff they'd been hearing? Am not sure. But generally - whats their history with these sorts of things?
3DS e-shop is pretty good, if expensive - hopefully the WiiU will offer an even wider array of titles as it should be good to port from PC.
Would Eurogamer publish if they didn't have some more info - or it didn't fit stuff they'd been hearing? Am not sure. But generally - whats their history with these sorts of things?
It's from back in March....
Freezie KO
Banned
Trolls are out in full force in this thread.
Guerrillas in the Mist
Member
How feasible is running a game off of a USB External HDD? Am I right in saying it's a good bit slower than a traditional SATA HDD?
tkscz
Member
Umm... because we will? Not trying to stereotype us, but this tends to be true. More likely than not, we're going to get an external HDD to store games.
I don't know what Eurogamer knows, but this isn't the first time a Wii U Daily rumor based on anonymous sources has circulated quickly: http://kotaku.com/5898476/were-not-buying-fast+spreading-wii-u-launch-date-rumor
I like how these improvements are being characterized as "insane". Apparently Nintendo's third party relations are not held in high regard
.So Wii U Daily was posting bullshit "rumours" back in March is what he's getting at.
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Can we just have one Wii U thread without you crapping on the system? Just one?
Neuromancer
Member
Hurm
Yes you are limited to usb speeeds.
"Crapping'? Because it has 8GB of storage and this thread is about downloading full games. Where do you put it?
Are the concerns not valid?
Again are my concerns not valid? I dont understand why I cannot raise concerns. I dont even post that much. To say I'm in every thread is pushing it...
But I will buy it just like every other system.
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Most of that is facts we know with some extra hype(rbole?) on top, no? We know they want to offer retail titles digitally, that they have incentives for retailers to actually be decently supportive of the digital market as opposed to pulling a PSP Go, that most likely they have kept the revised DD only games rules of 3DSware, if they didn't also improve them further, which is a far cry from WiiWare's shortcomings anyway, etc. Only some details like getting a smaller cut than other companies per digital sale are unknown and questionable. As well as if they will indeed have every single retail title available digitally or if some publishers could still opt out of it for whatever reason, but they don't even promise that it will be 100% with this rumor, just that the incentives are so good most are likely to go for it. Which is probably true, I doubt selling digitally could result in a worse deal than retail.
Freezie KO
Banned
I don't think you can imagine how horrible it would be to have the option of having a hard drive next to the console. Even those tiny passport USB drives. The mere option would have his wife in fits. You see, his wife complains a lot. It's not that he's complaining about something nonsensical. It's his wife.
video games will be on sales this holiday
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Hearing about incentives to publishers is actually a very good thing. Despite heavy competition in the DD sector benefitting customers, the 30%-give-or-take figure that the DD platforms claw back hasn't changed one bit.
dacuk
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MasterSheen
Member
You think games will actually use up all of that space?
Buddha Beam
Banned
Third parties will find some reason to ignore it, though.
That strategy worked really well for Google+, so it is a no-brainer for Nintendo to copy it.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/popcap-and-wooga-pull-games-from-google/
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/popcap-and-wooga-pull-games-from-google/
Going by my ps3 and xbox 360. Yes it use way more than that.
For example the last update for BF3 on my ps3 was 1.4 GB. I do not think that deletes after you update.
A good start will be maybe to refund the little indie developers that were entousiastic/fool enought to go Wiiware, and ends up to give away their own games to pass the sales cap in order to see some money from Nintendo.
If the games are published in retail box at first, there is no really need to incentive this, except if you want to leverage third party sales by calming down second-hand market (unlike Iwata said in the june investors Q/A session).
That's clever politics, but I don't like it.
If the games are published in retail box at first, there is no really need to incentive this, except if you want to leverage third party sales by calming down second-hand market (unlike Iwata said in the june investors Q/A session).
That's clever politics, but I don't like it.