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Miiverse, Wii U Chat and Tvii to shut down on November 8
- Thread starter Garou
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There's nothing about the Miiverse functionality in WWHD that's required. It just made it easier to get photos if you managed to miss one of the missables or didn't want to fork over any rupees to Lenzo for the legendary photos.
BLADE report being discontinued in Xenoblade X does suck hard, since that was the only communication tool you had in-game. Everything else should continue to work fine in that game, including the online missions and being able to offer up treasure, but it's definitely a big blow to that game.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
This is where Nintendo's refusal to manage online services hurts their best ideas. Miiverse was a vividly Iwata-like idea, and seeing it go away is very sad.
Goodbye empathy network! We barely understood the need for you...and then Trump won. Sounds unrelated, but go watch Iwata's introduction about Miiverse. He clearly saw the issues with social networks as they currently existed and wanted to make something counter to them. I don't think they succeeded, but honestly a lot of its flaws could've been helped with a system that could more seamlessly integrate and quickly allow posts and screenshots. As it is, it's far faaar too slow to let people easily communicate so much so that it prevented me from using it the handful of times I wanted to. I liked it, but it was a chore.
Agreed, especially how it's features are used prominently in Splatoon 2.
I'm guessing that it's all cost related. And the amount of money spent on it considering the older platforms that run it.
Rot in hell, Miiverse.
Hahahaha my sides. :lol
They didn't want to pay for the uptick in cost that ultra sun/moon would provide. Ugh, how cheap.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
There's nowhere else I can catalogue the adventures of Mii and my harem.
Truly sad times.
Truly sad times.
Azure Dream
Member
Nintendo can't keep some message boards going. I guess don't count on any unique Switch feature to stick around the second they're done with that platform.
-shadow-
Member
Why in six days?
I document each time I unlock a character.
I leave for france in six days.
Ironically this is the one thing you're covered on. There's an option to download your posts, and Wii U has a feature to post screens to imgur or whatnot.
moltonasty
Member
Damn. This sucks. But it's incentive to get through my Wii U backlog before Nov 8 at least.
Junahu
Member
Miiverse activity doesn't push Nintendo's interests since it's a walled garden of fans talking to fans.
They want everyone to be posting Nintendo stuff and Nintendo screenshots onto Social Media.
They want everyone to be posting Nintendo stuff and Nintendo screenshots onto Social Media.
It's really sad how Nintendo want to sell an online Subscription, but keep removing all the cool things that they used to do for free
This is sad, Miiverse was great. I had a lot of fun posting screenshots from my 3DS with silly captions on them. This is a big step backwards, Twitter and Facebook aren't the same. It was a happy place, where everybody had a good time playing and talking about Nintendo games.
Remember, remember the eight of November :'(
Remember, remember the eight of November :'(
Miitomo actually has ways of generating revenue.
GabeTheGrouch76
Member
It wasn't perfect but I'm sad to see Miiverse go nonetheless. The drawing aspects were the best part and it had its (comedic) moments. Games also made great implementation of it too.
With that said though, the biggest gut punch for me is losing the ability to upload videos to YouTube. That's a huge part of why I play Smash 4 online, I don't have a capture device to do that.
With that said though, the biggest gut punch for me is losing the ability to upload videos to YouTube. That's a huge part of why I play Smash 4 online, I don't have a capture device to do that.
Mass Effect
Member
Wow, and I was actually going to ask about if Miiverse would come to Switch, but I guess I now have my answer.
This is fucking lame. Miiverse was great; it's one of the best things Nintendo's done in years. Well, I guess I better finish up some games that depend on Miiverse.
And wasn't Reggie talking about how the 3DS/2DS was going to still be supported for years? lol yeah right
This is fucking lame. Miiverse was great; it's one of the best things Nintendo's done in years. Well, I guess I better finish up some games that depend on Miiverse.
And wasn't Reggie talking about how the 3DS/2DS was going to still be supported for years? lol yeah right
People saying good don't understand how versatile miiverse's backend was. It was able to have so much different uses when combined with hidden metadata features (IIRC Nano Assault Neo actually used it for its scoreboard implementation, with not a post in sight).
I don't know their economics though.
Miiverse uses ads, at least on pc.
I don't know their economics though.
-shadow-
Member
Yeah it's a bit weird they're killing it for the 3DS also. I completely understand from the WiiU side of things. The 3DS won't even have had it four years by the time they're killing it.
Panajev2001a
GAF's Pleasant Genius
We are really talking about a miniscule cost for a quite unique selling point of their online experience... MiiVerse + stickers instead of trophies worked wonders for me (even though the Wii U integration of anything was slow and decidedly the opposite of the word frictionless... despite that I will miss MiiVerse as it was that good of an idea IMHO).
Nintendo wants everyone to forget about Wii and especially Wii U, they want to erase the fact Wii U came out and tanked from people's memories so they are throwing out the baby with the bathwater...
chrominance
Member
Cool, now I won't have any way of taking screenshots on the 3DS unless I put CFW on it. Thanks Nintendo!
Miiverse is basically one big advertisement for games on Nintendo platforms.
Eh... not much of an advertisement when you can only create an account if you already own one of their systems. They'd rather have people spamming their twitter and Facebook feeds with their gaming-related posts for free advertisement to non-costumers.
Unfortunately, when we comply with this idea, we become an annoyance to our followers who don't care. And I don't know about you, but as someone who loathed all the Farmville spam I used to see on Facebook, I don't want to contribute to that sort of invasive advertising.
In fact, I'm considering making a second twitter or Facebook account specifically to link with my Switch as a sort of replacement to my Miiverse feed, so that if anyone actually wants to see my screenshots and random gaming talk, they can opt in instead of being inundated with gaming posts mixed in with my other posts.
It really isn't as the only way one can view Miiverse post is to own a Nintendo console and post remain within Nintendo walled garden thus they aren't targeting folks who don't own the consoles or even touch a Nintendo game.
The world may never know now.
I was thinking the same thing. It's not a must in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but you can basically set up your own quasi-commentary to share with friends over Miiverse and it'll be a shame if more people don't take advantage of that, it's a great game and a really cool feature.
I believe NFS Most Wanted also uses Miiverse for its leaderboard system, which is really very cool, but I'm not positive about that one. Mario Kart 8 time trials, the Shovel Knight Digger's Diary... this is just a real fucking shitty thing to do Nintendo, don't think people aren't pissed that games aren't going to work properly a couple years after their release.
I'm really gonna miss Miiverse. It spawned a lot of stupidly funny shit. However...
It's time to pop the bubble.
The least Nintendo can do is retain some function of it for the Miiverse stage in Smash Bros. Use Twitter posts like Splatoon 2 or something. I want it to return for the Switch version.
Rip miiverse
It's time to pop the bubble.
The least Nintendo can do is retain some function of it for the Miiverse stage in Smash Bros. Use Twitter posts like Splatoon 2 or something. I want it to return for the Switch version.
Stallion Dan
Member
But they gonna keep supporting 3DS right guys?