Wii U = $50 PS3/360 = $30 PC = $20 PC if you already own the original = $10 PC if you own original plus Missing Link DLC = $5 !!
Hmmmmm now that's a tough decision isn't it?! (I already own it for PC, but not with DLC) Some tacked-on second screen functionality isn't worth $40 is it? I could buy TWO recent games on Steam for that, or wait for sales and get four games, or eight indie games.
The mentality of buying something solely to destroy it and call it 'art' or 'theatre' doesn't make sense to me.
I'd have been more interested had he used the heat generated by the burning 2DS to heat water and calculate the amount of energy stored within a 2DS. That would have turned it into a scientific experiment rather than some piece of wanton destruction that he calls art.
I have Train Simulator on Steam and it's amazingly relaxing I find! I bought it on sale, and bought a couple of pieces of DLC on sale as well. You don't need to buy a single piece of DLC to enjoy the game, but each piece of DLC represents many hours of work. This and the small audience means that they're expensive. True rail fans will probably have a favourite route and/or engine, and buy only those. I doubt anyone would ever buy them all!
Another great sim is Euro Truck Simulator 2 - again another relaxing experience for me
...unless of course it allows you to check the first box and leave the other two unchecked. But I don't like the idea that the info provided (which includes my name and address) may be shared with the developer of the app that i'm complaining about!!!
FYI, after reporting an app in the store to MS, you get an email which takes you to a web page where you have to sign in with your Windows Live ID (or whatever they're calling it these days), fill in a big long form and provide supporting information. At the end of this form, there are three required checkboxes, containing statements which only the copyright owner can affirm.
So basically it doesn't look like they're making it an easy process. Really, any app that receives more than a certain number of complaints should be investigated.
Here are those three checkboxes, copied and pasted (sorry for the length of this comment!):
Good Faith Belief: [checkbox] By typing my name (electronic signature), I have a good faith belief that the use of the material is not authorized by the intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., it is not fair use).
Authority to Act: [checkbox] I represent that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that I am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
512(f) Acknowledgement: [checkbox] As applicable under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), I acknowledge that I may be subject to liability for damages if I knowingly materially misrepresent that material or activity is infringing.
I understand the information I provide on this form may be shared with third parties, including the developer of the application about which I am filing this complaint.
on every application's detail page on the store there's a link to report it for violation. I just saw an app in the 'top free' category, that I hadn't seen before, which translates as "jumping turtles" and it uses Nintendo sprites. I just reported it for using Nintendo IP. I suggest other people do the same with any similar apps they find.
All emulators in the Windows store are completely legal, however.
heh, here in spain the largest high street retailer will sell whatever they have in stock. they don't care about 'release dates'. It's making them more money on the shop floor than it is in the store room! I suppose Nintendo can't do much about it - if they didn't supply this particular retailer then they'd sell half as many units. I love it - got my wii U three days before the official launch, and picked up many games up to a week before they should be released.
@Sceptic but they're not really giving us something exclusive, not when the exclusive bit is going to be available for XB360 and PS3.
If the Wii U version is significantly (say $20 worth of 'significance') better than the other two versions do then it'll be worth a purchase.
Otherwise, if games are consistently priced higher than the same game on competitors' systems, then how will a system like the Wii U ever get a larger install base?
If it's a niche system with niche pricing then it might do well within its niche (for example, highly-priced simulation games on the PC seem to get away with this approach) but this is directly opposed to what Nintendo want from the Wii U: they want it to be mass-market.
vote with your wallets! don't support overpricing and don't spend your money.
show the publishers what your preferred price point is by not buying the game until it's that price in a sale.
I really enjoyed deus ex, right up until the first boss battle, which I couldn't clear because I hadn't chosen the 'correct' upgrade for it. very bad design that. but the boss battles were outsourced to another developer, which explains their incongruity. still, I picked up the game for €15 on steam only a few months after release and had some fun with it. would have been quite disappointed had I spent more than that though.
Is the music in this one different to the same tune they used in both of the last two games?
And are the time limits a bit more challenging this time? Once I've completed all the puzzles I like to go back and redo any that took me longer than ten minutes. Finally did the Koala in Picross E in 09:52 after a few tries.
This new Mega mode sounds interesting, though I would have liked to see more Micross puzzles as well - they were fun in E2 but over too soon.
Oh REALLY, Nintendo? If you actually wanted this then you'd make it a little bit easier to get into.
If you wanted this then you might respond to the people who fill in the developer application form on your website (you know - the ones who haven't already had successful releases on other platforms).
If you wanted this then you might actually release some tools to let people easily develop for the Wii U.
With the XB360 I can download XNA framework for free from Microsoft and start making games.
Why can't I download Wii U dev tools from Nintendo? Why can't I write my code, use a freely-downloadable tool from Nintendo to package that code, pop it on an SD card, and test it on my Wii U? (It could have a signature in it that would only let in run on my personal Wii U - to help counter any risk of code that's not Nintendo-verified running 'in the wild')
Nintendo need to lower the barrier to entry for indie developers even further. Yes it was easier to Microsoft to release a stripped-down version of a product they already had developed (Visual Studio) to open up XB360 development. But Nintendo don't have to release a development environment, just the libraries and decent documentation.
"If you build it they will come" (completely unnecessary and over-used quote from a mediocre film)
It's a bit like the failed Kickstarter to make a new Dizzy game. Some games are best left in the past.
Also, a lot of these failed Kickstarters seem to be people saying "So yeah, we made a cult classic back in the 80s, and we've not programmed anything since, but give us your money!"
They raise a bit of money from a few fans of the original games, who still fondly remember the hours they spent in front of their Spectrums, C64s, Amigas, and Atari STs when they were young, but everyone else has moved on.
They should have taken their tablet/smartphone app functions and ported them to the gamepad.
This is a game that has been hyped so much over the last year that I'm getting highly suspicious of how good it will actually be. Will it really be an organic reactive metropolis, or will it be the same GTA pedestrian and driver AI that we've always had, and some set pieces (most of which we've seen in the many, many promotional videos they've released)?
This is definitely one that I'll buy maybe six months after it's come out, after the inevitable bugged launch, and the patches that fix the problems they'll have. By then the PC version might have a free hi-res texture pack available (like Skyrim did) or modders will have made it even better in a way that's impossible on the consoles (like GTA 4). It'll also be €14.99 on Steam in the summer sale while the consoles will still be asking at least €50 for an inferior version.
@wombatkidd Very interesting, thanks for that. I did a bit of searching on the subject, and it turns out that where I live (Spain) piracy is actually legal, as long as it's not for commercial gain. The USA have put pressure on the Spanish government, though, and a recently-approved amendment will see website owners who link to copyrighted material prosecuted: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/20/net-us-spain-piracy-idUSBRE98J0RD20130920
Interestingly the amendment still doesn't affect an individual who downloads copyrighted material, who can continue to do so within the law.
@jsty3105 Very good point. Unless the author of the video ripped the ROM from his own game cartridge then his 'backup copy' is not legal, even though he owns the game. And this could be the sticky legal point that caused MS to remove the tweet.
I suspect someone in the Microsoft social media team has had a talking-to by their manager, and maybe put on menial website image-cropping work for the next three months! You just can't be as high-profile as MS and overlook things like that.
Good old internet: never before have people been able to make mistakes so wide-reaching and so instantly!
@Discostew A more accurate parallel might be if Nintendo allowed a third party developer to release a DOS emulator on the eShop. And then they tweeted a video of a fan playing an old DOS game on their Wii U, but with no mention of how that fan was able to legally obtain that old game. (It's hard for me to think of an example of a Microsoft-published DOS game, however, to make the parallel complete!)
So, I just watched the video (I know - maybe I should have done that before first commenting) and the guy on it has missed out the crucial detail of how he obtained Mario Kart.
Seeing his amazement that Surface has an actual real working web browser in it, and his utter astonishment that he could plug it into his TV, I find it highly unlikely that he has the technical wherewithal to actually create a rom from an original Mario Kart cartridge.
I also wondered whether there really is an app on the Microsoft Store called "Super Nintendo" as he states in the video, because surely an unauthorised 3rd party cannot use Nintendo's trademark. So I went and looked for it. It's not called "Super Nintendo".
I can confirm that it does not come with Mario Kart bundled. So how did this "hapless techno weenie" (reference: the film Hackers from 1996) get Mario Kart running on it?!
Also I find it unlikely that the Microsoft PR person actually watched the whole video. They probably skipped through it, noticed the gushing compliments from the guy who did the video, missed the bit where he played Mario Kart, and retweeted it.
ALSO, Windows 8 is horrible. The majority of apps in the store are knock-offs of mobile versions. The Microsoft apps like Calendar and Mail have horribly reduced functionality compared to their website versions, which is unbelievable.
I've been using it daily on a touchscreen laptop since last December and I started off liking it but have grown to hate it, because it just doesn't do anything very well.
EDIT: In the comments on his video n YouTube he has stated that he owns a SNES and the Mario Kart cartridge.
@unrandomsam Thanks for info, I wasn't aware that the patents had expired and those consoles are now 'fair game'.
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@WiiLovePeace But is that the case, legally? I don't know if the concept has ever been tested in court, but when I bought a Wii game I didn't read or agree to any licence regarding my use of that game. (There's probably some small print in a manual that I didn't read, though). It's not even like a software installer, where you have to click 'I agree' before it installs. Certain CDs for PC software have a sticker on the case or paper sleeve, which states that by breaking the seal you agree to various licence agreements. But no Wii disc I have bought has even had this. Some of the second hand games I've bought haven't even had the instruction manual.
Again, I'm not a lawyer or legal expert, and I have no idea whether a legal precedent has ever been set or not, but I'm not sure whether even the act of clicking 'I agree' actually constitutes a legally-binding contract.
I have no doubt that Nintendo do not like the practice, but if you're buying a physical product then as far as I know, you own that product and can do whatever you like with it.
I've had a couple of comments on the subject edited/removed in the past, but as this topic is directly concerning emulation then I hope this will be ok.
I was under the impression that emulators are not a 'grey area' as long as the people writing the emulator software do not reverse engineer the hardware.
The legal issue is about ROM images. If you don't own the game then you can't legally play the game.
Because I own a Wii, and all my games, and the software on the Wii to transfer those games to my PC; then am I doing anything illegal here?
A great writer. Shame he died so young. Without Clancy I would never have had one of my favourite games of all time: Rainbow Six.
I read many of his books when I was younger. Played the original Rainbow Six, its sequel Rogue Spear, and still play Rainbow Six 3 to this day (just last weekend, in fact).
Unfortunately, after R6:3 the influence of Ubisoft turned the Rainbow Six series into a shadow of its former self. From R6:Vegas onwards the game was just a formulaic action shooter. The studio that Clancy co-founded, Red Storm, did a brilliant job of taking his Rainbow Six book and making it into a strategic and tactical shooter. Some people even played the game by spending ages in the planning phase of the mission, and then sit back and watch the AI execute a well-prepared plan. There hasn't been another game like it.
..oh wow I wish they had this feature when I took my brand new wii u home for Christmas last year, but only took the HDMI cable and found my parents' TV was too old!
@raschi OMG you're right! sorry! how did I not know that? I had been checking it with a camera and didn't see any IR LEDs on it, but now noticed that two IR LEDs turn on when you go into the wii menu...this is incredible!!
@sofaking wiimotes are IR cameras, yes, but they communicate with the wii using Bluetooth, and they always have. (From the first day of release you could pair a wiimote with your PC, for instance) It's theoretically possible for Nintendo to make the gamepad emulate a classic controller in wii mode, but who knows whether they'll do it or not.
None of the Wii games will have been coded to use Bluetooth directly either. Nintendo provide developers with a software interface to access the controller hardware without needed to know anything about Bluetooth; the Wii handles all the low-level communication.
Also some people seem to be under the impression that the gamepad is also now a sensor bar, which it is not. I hope you guys haven't spent /too/ long waving a wii remote at your gamepad screens! All the sensor bar is, is a pair of infrared lights (which you can emulate in another room by using two lit candles, which are also infrared lights).
At last! I don't have a TV and for almost a year I've had to put up with tinny sound from the computer screen my Wii U is plugged into. I have a Wii -> VGA+phono cable which should hopefully work and let me pipe the sound into my amplifier. (Tried the VGA cable when I first got my Wii U, the system settings said it was going to work but I didn't get a picture on the screen, so had to use HDMI)
Off to test it now...if it works then I'm going to play my Wii U a lot more than I have done to date!
@MadAussieBloke heh i'm the masochistic kind! Though when I've just upgraded a GPU I love to load up all those old games and crank the settings up to max, and enjoy them all over again
@DilMan33 true that. They'll always put out great 1st-party software, but they might have to adjust their digital pricing policies in order to compete with Steam. It's not the same as mobile games versus DS games, where there's a vast difference in quality between the two. It's the main reason I buy cross-platform releases on PC rather than Wii U: I get more for my money. Nintendo are getting better at this with the eShop and its regular discounts, and hopefully the threat of Steam will make them give heavier discounts more frequently.
@MadAussieBloke lol my long-winded point was that you can have a viable gaming PC for many years if you buy decent components to begin with.
Unless you want to play Crysis. Crysis has always run best on hardware that doesn't exist at the time of release. Can't wait to finally get 60 FPS in Crysis 3 on my 32-core CPU in five years time!
@MadAussieBloke I dunno about that. If you plan your upgrades carefully then you can keep going for a while. Especially these days now that upgrades seem to be more about parallel processing and pushing higher resolutions. Ever since I started building my own PCs in the '90s I've only upgraded every 5 - 6 years. I've usually upgraded the graphics card halfway through the life of the machine, though! Today I'm still running an old Intel Quad from 2008. I upgraded the GPU two years ago and it's only with the very latest games that I've had to drop the detail levels down a bit to still get 60FPS @ 1920x1200. (CPU and GPU overclocked, of course - doubt I could get away with it otherwise)
Might upgrade next year though - the new ATI graphics cards look good, and maybe Intel will release some desktop CPUs with 6+ cores for a reasonable price...maybe...
To all who believe it will affect MS and Sony more than Nintendo: In terms of games this may be true, but what about the expense to the consumer? Which box will a consumer buy? The one that's cheaper but only has Nintendo games, or another box that has all games except for Nintendo games?
In an ideal world you'd buy both boxes, but if you can only afford to buy one then you probably won't buy the Nintendo one unless you're a Nintendo fan.
I tell my friends and family until I'm bored and blue in the face that Nintendo make the 'best' games in terms of pure fun. I believe this wholeheartedly, and I demonstrate these games to them whenever I can. But these days the people I know have families to support and can't justify buying a new piece of hardware just because I showed them one or two fun games.
They know that for a lower total cost of ownership (hardware plus software purchases over time) they will have almost as much 'fun' as me by using the PC hardware that they already have. Not only that, but with Steam they'll be able to play their games on any computer they own - as well as any of my Steam games which I'll be able to offer them with Family Sharing, which is another big plus for Valve.
If a low-end SteamBox can stream existing PC games to a TV for a low price, and a high-end SteamBox can play games with better graphics than Xbone/PS4, then all of the 'big three' should watch out, because a sale for Valve is a potentially lost sale for them.
@Jeremyx7 just because you say something is a fact does not make it a fact. Your 'fact' is a theory until you have proven it to be true (with your "various fields of data"). You'd also need to tighten up your definitions of 'many other' and 'MUCH MORE' to start approaching an actual fact. Until then, it's only ever your opinion.
Basically, @Rafie made a kindly-worded comment to allow you to realise your mistake, and to give you the opportunity to change the language you use in future. But no, you had to come back "wrong and strong" didn't you?
You gotta stop using the wrong words which make people 'misinterpret' your comments.
@MaverickHunterX @NMH-TRI a lot of PC gamers have had a steambox equivalent for some time. Back around the turn of the century I had a PC running Win98 hooked up to a TV with two wireless gamepads. My flatmate and I called it the ZBox (we put it together just after MS announced they were releasing a console called the Xbox) and even knocked up a controller-friendly UI for it. (We were young unemployed programmers at the time)
The point of the SteamBox could be to try and recapture those older people who used to build their own gaming PCs but don't have the time any more (or can't easily put a gaming PC in the living room), and to capture the Xbone/PS4 segment with "OMGZ GRAPHICS!".
A few internet commentators have mentioned that if Valve announce Half Life 3 as a SteamOS exclusive (for the first six months or whatever) then that will help to sell an awful lot of SteamBoxes.
@theadrock13 It's a nice idea, the ever-upgradable console, but Nintendo would be unlikely to do it as it would fragment the hardware base and lead to consumer confusion.
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The benefits to gamers on other consoles will be that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft will all have to lower their prices and/or have regular sales in order to compete with Valve. Hopefully a successful SteamBox will mean that our Nintendo games are cheaper!
There are a few inaccuracies in these comments regarding SteamOS and its use of Linux: By using Linux and getting NVidia on board (in an amazing turnaround, NVidia are being super helpful to Linux driver developers all of a sudden) Valve are going to be able to get better performance out of the same hardware than Windows. SteamOS is a customised Linux distribution. Valve will cut out all the unnecessary system services and have a blazingly fast system. And they have NVidia's game streaming technology, which appears to be very similar to Nintendo's Gamepad streaming tech, so a bottom-end SteamBox will be able to stream a game to your TV from your high-end PC.
Also AMD made an interesting announcement yesterday: an API they call Mantle, which replaces DirectX and offers faster access to their graphics hardware. Apparently it might be open sourced so that it'll run on NVidia hardware as well. It's debut is with Battlefield 4 this year.
All of this is pointing to an extremely capable SteamBox. Not forgetting that anyone is free to put together their own box running SteamOS if they want.
It has the potential to be very disruptive in the industry. And, apart from with their delivery estimates, how many times have Valve made a mistake so far? Interesting times...
@simperingdonkey why not sell your Wii U now and buy one again when Smash Bros comes out? That way you won't lose as much money. Unless you're planning on making your own unique Smash Bros Wii U bundle and selling it for LOADS of money?!
Personally I enjoy a bit of GTA as much as a bit of Animal Crossing. Depends on what I feel like at the time.
GTA has always been a PC game for me. So I'll wait for the PC port, but this time I won't buy it at release - GTA4 taught me that lesson! PC GTA is best GTA - modability is the reason.
BTW: I really enjoyed GTA Chinatown Wars on the DS. It's the only GTA game I've ever completed. I thought it was really well-done, with its GTA4 mechanics in a GTA1/2 style.
@Author - the PlayStation port of the original was certainly flawed. So was the PC original (multiplayer desyncs all the time on a LAN). This is a good short video of the history - they touch on the PS1 version needing to go to be mastered while the PC version was still being finished: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/sep/15/making-grand-theft-auto-video
7/10 is a good score for a game. or at least it is if you read NL or EDGE magazine. If you rated anything other than a computer game as being "7/10" then you'd be saying that thing is a 'good' or 'decent' thing. Anything above 5/10 is 'above average'. 5/10 is 'alright'. And nothing gets 10/10
This was a well-written review. So well-written, in fact, that I didn't need to look at the score at the end because the review told me everything I needed to know with words!
I still want to get the game but not at full price. It's probably one I'll pick up in the next Steam Summer Sale for €9.99, as the lack of offline co-op on the Wii U version means I can't play co-op with friends (none of my gaming friends have got or will get a Wii U, sadly, but they all have PCs)
It's a shame, because Ubisoft will probably point to weak sales on the Wii U as a reason to not support it fully in future, but as a consumer, I'm going to buy a cheaper and more complete game on PC if I have the option between that and a more expensive game that's not as complete on the Wii U.
@Macarony64 original DS's thumbstrap was great for Mario 64 and Metroid Hunters - I preferred that to the current circle pad because the thumbstrap control seemed more accurate and less sticky than the 3DS's circle pad...
@zeal you're just repeating the same thing, I think we get it now. What you want is called a 'PC' - I've heard that Sony and Microsoft are about to release some locked-down PCs that you might be interested in
personally, I'm not a fan of multifunction devices: I prefer to use a proper camera, a proper handheld games console, I have a proper watch, and I find Nintendo make proper home games consoles. I have a PC for everything else, like media, games with pretty graphics, simulation games, and ...work.
Sure, if I wanted a half-arsed attempt at doing everything then I'd have an iphone, ipad, xbox, and playstation. But I want the best of all worlds because I'm greedy like that, so I have a Canon camera, Nintendo games consoles, a convertible ultrabook instead of a tablet, and a PC.
@6ch6ris6 yeah I thought the same. being able to drive recklessly without any repercussions breaks immersion for me. imo, every time you go through a red light without hacking it to green first, every time you drive on the wrong side of the road, every time you destroy property or make an NPC jump out of the way; every action should slightly increase the 'heat level' you have.
(the original Driver game, despite all its flaws, did the 'driving carefully to avoid the cops spotting you' thing fairly well if I remember correctly)
@element187 I might have to wait and see... for me it'll be a decision between potential unique gamepad controls and off-screen play, versus the modability of the PC version. If modders can do great things with the PC version (eg. a realism mod, to change the reckless driving thing, for instance) then I'll have to get that version.
Not to mention it'll probably be €20 or less on Steam in the winter sale this year, while the Wii U version will still be €70 to download, maybe €60 in shops...
Yeah, unless they do some great things with the gamepad then I probably won't get this one for Wii U, which is a shame :-/
@All_DVD_Watchers - the original Wii can play DVD discs and media from network shares - it's been my living room media centre for years now!
Use the Homebrew Channel and its app browser to install DVD playback support and a media player (mplayer, geexbox, and wii radio are all good), and you're all set It doesn't have the power to decode HD files though - stick with DVD-size videos.
yeah of course he's right, even if there's a photo of him grinning smugly about being so right.
if you're a games dev, which console are you gonna support: the one where the creators consult with you and give you info while they're designing it, or the one whose creators don't bother?
the fact he's in a position to make this choice mean that Nintendo need to change their ways, if they want to compete in that way. (if they choose to continue as they have been then it'll mean fewer 3rd-party games, but is this necessarily such a bad thing? personally I buy Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games, and any good 3rd party games are bonuses on top of that. but I am not an entire market )
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Re: Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut Will Cost $20 More On Wii U Than On PS3 And 360
Wii U = $50
PS3/360 = $30
PC = $20
PC if you already own the original = $10
PC if you own original plus Missing Link DLC = $5 !!
Hmmmmm now that's a tough decision isn't it?! (I already own it for PC, but not with DLC)
Some tacked-on second screen functionality isn't worth $40 is it? I could buy TWO recent games on Steam for that, or wait for sales and get four games, or eight indie games.
Try again, Squeenix!
Re: Weirdness: Uh-Oh, That Guy Who Likes To Microwave Things Got His Hands On A 2DS
The mentality of buying something solely to destroy it and call it 'art' or 'theatre' doesn't make sense to me.
I'd have been more interested had he used the heat generated by the burning 2DS to heat water and calculate the amount of energy stored within a 2DS.
That would have turned it into a scientific experiment rather than some piece of wanton destruction that he calls art.
Re: Train Simulating Shenanigans Live On With the 3DS in Japan
This looks awesome!!
I'm getting closer to importing a Japanese 3DS... just waiting for the 'inevitable' hardware refresh...
Re: Review: Final Fight 3 (Wii U eShop / Super Nintendo)
yeah, i'd like to see a VC arcade release of the original, not the snes port
Re: Review: Densha de Go! 64 (Nintendo 64)
I have Train Simulator on Steam and it's amazingly relaxing I find!
I bought it on sale, and bought a couple of pieces of DLC on sale as well.
You don't need to buy a single piece of DLC to enjoy the game, but each piece of DLC represents many hours of work. This and the small audience means that they're expensive.
True rail fans will probably have a favourite route and/or engine, and buy only those. I doubt anyone would ever buy them all!
Another great sim is Euro Truck Simulator 2 - again another relaxing experience for me
Re: Illegal Nintendo Clones Are Running Rampant On Windows Store
...unless of course it allows you to check the first box and leave the other two unchecked.
But I don't like the idea that the info provided (which includes my name and address) may be shared with the developer of the app that i'm complaining about!!!
Re: Illegal Nintendo Clones Are Running Rampant On Windows Store
freeware ROMs are legal (eg. homebrew games)
FYI, after reporting an app in the store to MS, you get an email which takes you to a web page where you have to sign in with your Windows Live ID (or whatever they're calling it these days), fill in a big long form and provide supporting information.
At the end of this form, there are three required checkboxes, containing statements which only the copyright owner can affirm.
So basically it doesn't look like they're making it an easy process. Really, any app that receives more than a certain number of complaints should be investigated.
Here are those three checkboxes, copied and pasted (sorry for the length of this comment!):
Good Faith Belief:
[checkbox] By typing my name (electronic signature), I have a good faith belief that the use of the material is not authorized by the intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., it is not fair use).
Authority to Act:
[checkbox] I represent that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that I am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
512(f) Acknowledgement:
[checkbox] As applicable under 17 U.S.C. 512(f), I acknowledge that I may be subject to liability for damages if I knowingly materially misrepresent that material or activity is infringing.
I understand the information I provide on this form may be shared with third parties, including the developer of the application about which I am filing this complaint.
Re: Illegal Nintendo Clones Are Running Rampant On Windows Store
on every application's detail page on the store there's a link to report it for violation.
I just saw an app in the 'top free' category, that I hadn't seen before, which translates as "jumping turtles" and it uses Nintendo sprites. I just reported it for using Nintendo IP.
I suggest other people do the same with any similar apps they find.
All emulators in the Windows store are completely legal, however.
Re: UK Retailers Break Release Date for Pokémon X & Y
heh, here in spain the largest high street retailer will sell whatever they have in stock. they don't care about 'release dates'. It's making them more money on the shop floor than it is in the store room!
I suppose Nintendo can't do much about it - if they didn't supply this particular retailer then they'd sell half as many units.
I love it - got my wii U three days before the official launch, and picked up many games up to a week before they should be released.
Re: Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut Will Cost $20 More On Wii U Than On PS3 And 360
@Sceptic but they're not really giving us something exclusive, not when the exclusive bit is going to be available for XB360 and PS3.
If the Wii U version is significantly (say $20 worth of 'significance') better than the other two versions do then it'll be worth a purchase.
Otherwise, if games are consistently priced higher than the same game on competitors' systems, then how will a system like the Wii U ever get a larger install base?
If it's a niche system with niche pricing then it might do well within its niche (for example, highly-priced simulation games on the PC seem to get away with this approach) but this is directly opposed to what Nintendo want from the Wii U: they want it to be mass-market.
Re: Hands On: An Evening With Wii Karaoke U By Joysound
@ScorpionMG yeah the wii speak mic is a USB one, but I wonder how good a microphone it is. I suppose i'll give it a try and report back!
Re: Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut Will Cost $20 More On Wii U Than On PS3 And 360
vote with your wallets! don't support overpricing and don't spend your money.
show the publishers what your preferred price point is by not buying the game until it's that price in a sale.
I really enjoyed deus ex, right up until the first boss battle, which I couldn't clear because I hadn't chosen the 'correct' upgrade for it. very bad design that.
but the boss battles were outsourced to another developer, which explains their incongruity.
still, I picked up the game for €15 on steam only a few months after release and had some fun with it. would have been quite disappointed had I spent more than that though.
Re: Hands On: An Evening With Wii Karaoke U By Joysound
@Cyb3Rnite heh same here
This looks like a fun game, and I don't even like karaoke. I have a couple of friends who will love it though.
Will my Wii Speak microphone work well with it, anyone know?
Re: Review: Picross e3 (3DS eShop)
Is the music in this one different to the same tune they used in both of the last two games?
And are the time limits a bit more challenging this time?
Once I've completed all the puzzles I like to go back and redo any that took me longer than ten minutes. Finally did the Koala in Picross E in 09:52 after a few tries.
This new Mega mode sounds interesting, though I would have liked to see more Micross puzzles as well - they were fun in E2 but over too soon.
Re: James Pond Kickstarter Campaign Has Been Cancelled
@Nintenjoe64 I remember that came out at the same time as F15 strike eagle, and I could only get one and went for the plane over the sub
strike eagle was good, but a few years later I got F19 stealth fighter which I remember being far better...
Re: Nintendo Wants Wii U To Be "The Console That Every Developer Wants To Publish On"
Oh REALLY, Nintendo?
If you actually wanted this then you'd make it a little bit easier to get into.
If you wanted this then you might respond to the people who fill in the developer application form on your website (you know - the ones who haven't already had successful releases on other platforms).
If you wanted this then you might actually release some tools to let people easily develop for the Wii U.
With the XB360 I can download XNA framework for free from Microsoft and start making games.
Why can't I download Wii U dev tools from Nintendo?
Why can't I write my code, use a freely-downloadable tool from Nintendo to package that code, pop it on an SD card, and test it on my Wii U?
(It could have a signature in it that would only let in run on my personal Wii U - to help counter any risk of code that's not Nintendo-verified running 'in the wild')
Nintendo need to lower the barrier to entry for indie developers even further.
Yes it was easier to Microsoft to release a stripped-down version of a product they already had developed (Visual Studio) to open up XB360 development.
But Nintendo don't have to release a development environment, just the libraries and decent documentation.
"If you build it they will come" (completely unnecessary and over-used quote from a mediocre film)
Re: James Pond Kickstarter Campaign Has Been Cancelled
It's a bit like the failed Kickstarter to make a new Dizzy game.
Some games are best left in the past.
Also, a lot of these failed Kickstarters seem to be people saying "So yeah, we made a cult classic back in the 80s, and we've not programmed anything since, but give us your money!"
They raise a bit of money from a few fans of the original games, who still fondly remember the hours they spent in front of their Spectrums, C64s, Amigas, and Atari STs when they were young, but everyone else has moved on.
Re: Ubisoft Explains Wii U Watch_Dogs Visuals as "In Between" Current and Next-Gen
They should have taken their tablet/smartphone app functions and ported them to the gamepad.
This is a game that has been hyped so much over the last year that I'm getting highly suspicious of how good it will actually be.
Will it really be an organic reactive metropolis, or will it be the same GTA pedestrian and driver AI that we've always had, and some set pieces (most of which we've seen in the many, many promotional videos they've released)?
This is definitely one that I'll buy maybe six months after it's come out, after the inevitable bugged launch, and the patches that fix the problems they'll have.
By then the PC version might have a free hi-res texture pack available (like Skyrim did) or modders will have made it even better in a way that's impossible on the consoles (like GTA 4).
It'll also be €14.99 on Steam in the summer sale while the consoles will still be asking at least €50 for an inferior version.
Re: Nintendo Considering Cross-Buy eShop Purchases, But Doesn't Have Anything To Announce Yet
Hey developers!
Want to sell your game only once instead of multiple times?
What do you mean "no"?
Sorry consumers - developers didn't demand it!
Re: Microsoft Wants You To Know That Its Surface Tablet Can Play SNES Games
@FLUX_CAPACITOR Wikipedia sys otherwise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console_emulator#Legal_issues
Good info on the subject in that article.
Re: Microsoft Wants You To Know That Its Surface Tablet Can Play SNES Games
@wombatkidd Very interesting, thanks for that. I did a bit of searching on the subject, and it turns out that where I live (Spain) piracy is actually legal, as long as it's not for commercial gain.
The USA have put pressure on the Spanish government, though, and a recently-approved amendment will see website owners who link to copyrighted material prosecuted: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/20/net-us-spain-piracy-idUSBRE98J0RD20130920
Interestingly the amendment still doesn't affect an individual who downloads copyrighted material, who can continue to do so within the law.
Re: Microsoft Wants You To Know That Its Surface Tablet Can Play SNES Games
@jsty3105 Very good point. Unless the author of the video ripped the ROM from his own game cartridge then his 'backup copy' is not legal, even though he owns the game. And this could be the sticky legal point that caused MS to remove the tweet.
I suspect someone in the Microsoft social media team has had a talking-to by their manager, and maybe put on menial website image-cropping work for the next three months!
You just can't be as high-profile as MS and overlook things like that.
Good old internet: never before have people been able to make mistakes so wide-reaching and so instantly!
Re: Microsoft Wants You To Know That Its Surface Tablet Can Play SNES Games
@Discostew A more accurate parallel might be if Nintendo allowed a third party developer to release a DOS emulator on the eShop.
And then they tweeted a video of a fan playing an old DOS game on their Wii U, but with no mention of how that fan was able to legally obtain that old game.
(It's hard for me to think of an example of a Microsoft-published DOS game, however, to make the parallel complete!)
Re: Microsoft Wants You To Know That Its Surface Tablet Can Play SNES Games
@theblackdragon Thanks for the clarification.
So, I just watched the video (I know - maybe I should have done that before first commenting) and the guy on it has missed out the crucial detail of how he obtained Mario Kart.
Seeing his amazement that Surface has an actual real working web browser in it, and his utter astonishment that he could plug it into his TV, I find it highly unlikely that he has the technical wherewithal to actually create a rom from an original Mario Kart cartridge.
I also wondered whether there really is an app on the Microsoft Store called "Super Nintendo" as he states in the video, because surely an unauthorised 3rd party cannot use Nintendo's trademark. So I went and looked for it. It's not called "Super Nintendo".
I can confirm that it does not come with Mario Kart bundled. So how did this "hapless techno weenie" (reference: the film Hackers from 1996) get Mario Kart running on it?!
Also I find it unlikely that the Microsoft PR person actually watched the whole video. They probably skipped through it, noticed the gushing compliments from the guy who did the video, missed the bit where he played Mario Kart, and retweeted it.
ALSO, Windows 8 is horrible. The majority of apps in the store are knock-offs of mobile versions. The Microsoft apps like Calendar and Mail have horribly reduced functionality compared to their website versions, which is unbelievable.
I've been using it daily on a touchscreen laptop since last December and I started off liking it but have grown to hate it, because it just doesn't do anything very well.
EDIT: In the comments on his video n YouTube he has stated that he owns a SNES and the Mario Kart cartridge.
Re: Microsoft Wants You To Know That Its Surface Tablet Can Play SNES Games
@unrandomsam Thanks for info, I wasn't aware that the patents had expired and those consoles are now 'fair game'.
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In this murky topic, are there any definite rules that moderators are following regarding comments, or is it based on the general feeling one gets when reading the comment?
Re: Microsoft Wants You To Know That Its Surface Tablet Can Play SNES Games
@WiiLovePeace But is that the case, legally? I don't know if the concept has ever been tested in court, but when I bought a Wii game I didn't read or agree to any licence regarding my use of that game. (There's probably some small print in a manual that I didn't read, though).
It's not even like a software installer, where you have to click 'I agree' before it installs.
Certain CDs for PC software have a sticker on the case or paper sleeve, which states that by breaking the seal you agree to various licence agreements.
But no Wii disc I have bought has even had this. Some of the second hand games I've bought haven't even had the instruction manual.
Again, I'm not a lawyer or legal expert, and I have no idea whether a legal precedent has ever been set or not, but I'm not sure whether even the act of clicking 'I agree' actually constitutes a legally-binding contract.
I have no doubt that Nintendo do not like the practice, but if you're buying a physical product then as far as I know, you own that product and can do whatever you like with it.
Re: Microsoft Wants You To Know That Its Surface Tablet Can Play SNES Games
I've had a couple of comments on the subject edited/removed in the past, but as this topic is directly concerning emulation then I hope this will be ok.
I was under the impression that emulators are not a 'grey area' as long as the people writing the emulator software do not reverse engineer the hardware.
The legal issue is about ROM images. If you don't own the game then you can't legally play the game.
Because I own a Wii, and all my games, and the software on the Wii to transfer those games to my PC; then am I doing anything illegal here?
Re: Splinter Cell Creator Tom Clancy Passes Away Aged 66
A great writer. Shame he died so young. Without Clancy I would never have had one of my favourite games of all time: Rainbow Six.
I read many of his books when I was younger. Played the original Rainbow Six, its sequel Rogue Spear, and still play Rainbow Six 3 to this day (just last weekend, in fact).
Unfortunately, after R6:3 the influence of Ubisoft turned the Rainbow Six series into a shadow of its former self. From R6:Vegas onwards the game was just a formulaic action shooter.
The studio that Clancy co-founded, Red Storm, did a brilliant job of taking his Rainbow Six book and making it into a strategic and tactical shooter.
Some people even played the game by spending ages in the planning phase of the mission, and then sit back and watch the AI execute a well-prepared plan.
There hasn't been another game like it.
Re: New Wii U System Update Goes Live Across Europe, North America and Japan
..oh wow I wish they had this feature when I took my brand new wii u home for Christmas last year, but only took the HDMI cable and found my parents' TV was too old!
Re: New Wii U System Update Goes Live Across Europe, North America and Japan
@raschi OMG you're right! sorry! how did I not know that? I had been checking it with a camera and didn't see any IR LEDs on it, but now noticed that two IR LEDs turn on when you go into the wii menu...this is incredible!!
Re: New Wii U System Update Goes Live Across Europe, North America and Japan
@sofaking wiimotes are IR cameras, yes, but they communicate with the wii using Bluetooth, and they always have. (From the first day of release you could pair a wiimote with your PC, for instance)
It's theoretically possible for Nintendo to make the gamepad emulate a classic controller in wii mode, but who knows whether they'll do it or not.
None of the Wii games will have been coded to use Bluetooth directly either. Nintendo provide developers with a software interface to access the controller hardware without needed to know anything about Bluetooth; the Wii handles all the low-level communication.
Also some people seem to be under the impression that the gamepad is also now a sensor bar, which it is not. I hope you guys haven't spent /too/ long waving a wii remote at your gamepad screens!
All the sensor bar is, is a pair of infrared lights (which you can emulate in another room by using two lit candles, which are also infrared lights).
Re: New Wii U System Update Goes Live Across Europe, North America and Japan
...and it works - lovely hi-fi sound!
The eShop music is new, right? Or did it always sound like this and I wasn't hearing half of it before?!
Re: New Wii U System Update Goes Live Across Europe, North America and Japan
At last! I don't have a TV and for almost a year I've had to put up with tinny sound from the computer screen my Wii U is plugged into.
I have a Wii -> VGA+phono cable which should hopefully work and let me pipe the sound into my amplifier.
(Tried the VGA cable when I first got my Wii U, the system settings said it was going to work but I didn't get a picture on the screen, so had to use HDMI)
Off to test it now...if it works then I'm going to play my Wii U a lot more than I have done to date!
Re: Talking Point: The Steam Gaming Machines Are An Unconventional Challenge to the Wii U
@MadAussieBloke heh i'm the masochistic kind! Though when I've just upgraded a GPU I love to load up all those old games and crank the settings up to max, and enjoy them all over again
So what about this interesting-looking controller then people?
http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamController/
looks different, I like it, almost like something Nintendo would think up...
Re: Talking Point: The Steam Gaming Machines Are An Unconventional Challenge to the Wii U
@DilMan33 true that.
They'll always put out great 1st-party software, but they might have to adjust their digital pricing policies in order to compete with Steam.
It's not the same as mobile games versus DS games, where there's a vast difference in quality between the two.
It's the main reason I buy cross-platform releases on PC rather than Wii U: I get more for my money.
Nintendo are getting better at this with the eShop and its regular discounts, and hopefully the threat of Steam will make them give heavier discounts more frequently.
@MadAussieBloke lol my long-winded point was that you can have a viable gaming PC for many years if you buy decent components to begin with.
Unless you want to play Crysis. Crysis has always run best on hardware that doesn't exist at the time of release. Can't wait to finally get 60 FPS in Crysis 3 on my 32-core CPU in five years time!
Re: Talking Point: The Steam Gaming Machines Are An Unconventional Challenge to the Wii U
@MadAussieBloke I dunno about that. If you plan your upgrades carefully then you can keep going for a while. Especially these days now that upgrades seem to be more about parallel processing and pushing higher resolutions.
Ever since I started building my own PCs in the '90s I've only upgraded every 5 - 6 years. I've usually upgraded the graphics card halfway through the life of the machine, though!
Today I'm still running an old Intel Quad from 2008. I upgraded the GPU two years ago and it's only with the very latest games that I've had to drop the detail levels down a bit to still get 60FPS @ 1920x1200.
(CPU and GPU overclocked, of course - doubt I could get away with it otherwise)
Might upgrade next year though - the new ATI graphics cards look good, and maybe Intel will release some desktop CPUs with 6+ cores for a reasonable price...maybe...
Re: Talking Point: The Steam Gaming Machines Are An Unconventional Challenge to the Wii U
To all who believe it will affect MS and Sony more than Nintendo: In terms of games this may be true, but what about the expense to the consumer?
Which box will a consumer buy? The one that's cheaper but only has Nintendo games, or another box that has all games except for Nintendo games?
In an ideal world you'd buy both boxes, but if you can only afford to buy one then you probably won't buy the Nintendo one unless you're a Nintendo fan.
I tell my friends and family until I'm bored and blue in the face that Nintendo make the 'best' games in terms of pure fun. I believe this wholeheartedly, and I demonstrate these games to them whenever I can.
But these days the people I know have families to support and can't justify buying a new piece of hardware just because I showed them one or two fun games.
They know that for a lower total cost of ownership (hardware plus software purchases over time) they will have almost as much 'fun' as me by using the PC hardware that they already have.
Not only that, but with Steam they'll be able to play their games on any computer they own - as well as any of my Steam games which I'll be able to offer them with Family Sharing, which is another big plus for Valve.
If a low-end SteamBox can stream existing PC games to a TV for a low price, and a high-end SteamBox can play games with better graphics than Xbone/PS4, then all of the 'big three' should watch out, because a sale for Valve is a potentially lost sale for them.
Re: Talking Point: The Steam Gaming Machines Are An Unconventional Challenge to the Wii U
@Jeremyx7 just because you say something is a fact does not make it a fact.
Your 'fact' is a theory until you have proven it to be true (with your "various fields of data").
You'd also need to tighten up your definitions of 'many other' and 'MUCH MORE' to start approaching an actual fact.
Until then, it's only ever your opinion.
Basically, @Rafie made a kindly-worded comment to allow you to realise your mistake, and to give you the opportunity to change the language you use in future. But no, you had to come back "wrong and strong" didn't you?
You gotta stop using the wrong words which make people 'misinterpret' your comments.
Re: Talking Point: The Steam Gaming Machines Are An Unconventional Challenge to the Wii U
@MaverickHunterX @NMH-TRI a lot of PC gamers have had a steambox equivalent for some time.
Back around the turn of the century I had a PC running Win98 hooked up to a TV with two wireless gamepads. My flatmate and I called it the ZBox (we put it together just after MS announced they were releasing a console called the Xbox) and even knocked up a controller-friendly UI for it. (We were young unemployed programmers at the time)
The point of the SteamBox could be to try and recapture those older people who used to build their own gaming PCs but don't have the time any more (or can't easily put a gaming PC in the living room), and to capture the Xbone/PS4 segment with "OMGZ GRAPHICS!".
A few internet commentators have mentioned that if Valve announce Half Life 3 as a SteamOS exclusive (for the first six months or whatever) then that will help to sell an awful lot of SteamBoxes.
Re: Talking Point: The Steam Gaming Machines Are An Unconventional Challenge to the Wii U
@theadrock13 It's a nice idea, the ever-upgradable console, but Nintendo would be unlikely to do it as it would fragment the hardware base and lead to consumer confusion.
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Re: Talking Point: The Steam Gaming Machines Are An Unconventional Challenge to the Wii U
The benefits to gamers on other consoles will be that Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft will all have to lower their prices and/or have regular sales in order to compete with Valve.
Hopefully a successful SteamBox will mean that our Nintendo games are cheaper!
There are a few inaccuracies in these comments regarding SteamOS and its use of Linux:
By using Linux and getting NVidia on board (in an amazing turnaround, NVidia are being super helpful to Linux driver developers all of a sudden) Valve are going to be able to get better performance out of the same hardware than Windows.
SteamOS is a customised Linux distribution. Valve will cut out all the unnecessary system services and have a blazingly fast system.
And they have NVidia's game streaming technology, which appears to be very similar to Nintendo's Gamepad streaming tech, so a bottom-end SteamBox will be able to stream a game to your TV from your high-end PC.
Also AMD made an interesting announcement yesterday: an API they call Mantle, which replaces DirectX and offers faster access to their graphics hardware. Apparently it might be open sourced so that it'll run on NVidia hardware as well. It's debut is with Battlefield 4 this year.
All of this is pointing to an extremely capable SteamBox. Not forgetting that anyone is free to put together their own box running SteamOS if they want.
It has the potential to be very disruptive in the industry.
And, apart from with their delivery estimates, how many times have Valve made a mistake so far?
Interesting times...
Re: Soapbox: Why Grand Theft Auto V Isn't For Me
@simperingdonkey why not sell your Wii U now and buy one again when Smash Bros comes out? That way you won't lose as much money.
Unless you're planning on making your own unique Smash Bros Wii U bundle and selling it for LOADS of money?!
Re: Soapbox: Why Grand Theft Auto V Isn't For Me
Personally I enjoy a bit of GTA as much as a bit of Animal Crossing. Depends on what I feel like at the time.
GTA has always been a PC game for me. So I'll wait for the PC port, but this time I won't buy it at release - GTA4 taught me that lesson!
PC GTA is best GTA - modability is the reason.
BTW: I really enjoyed GTA Chinatown Wars on the DS. It's the only GTA game I've ever completed. I thought it was really well-done, with its GTA4 mechanics in a GTA1/2 style.
Re: Soapbox: Why Grand Theft Auto V Isn't For Me
@Author - the PlayStation port of the original was certainly flawed. So was the PC original (multiplayer desyncs all the time on a LAN).
This is a good short video of the history - they touch on the PS1 version needing to go to be mastered while the PC version was still being finished: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2013/sep/15/making-grand-theft-auto-video
Re: Review: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist (Wii U)
7/10 is a good score for a game. or at least it is if you read NL or EDGE magazine.
If you rated anything other than a computer game as being "7/10" then you'd be saying that thing is a 'good' or 'decent' thing. Anything above 5/10 is 'above average'. 5/10 is 'alright'.
And nothing gets 10/10
This was a well-written review. So well-written, in fact, that I didn't need to look at the score at the end because the review told me everything I needed to know with words!
I still want to get the game but not at full price. It's probably one I'll pick up in the next Steam Summer Sale for €9.99, as the lack of offline co-op on the Wii U version means I can't play co-op with friends (none of my gaming friends have got or will get a Wii U, sadly, but they all have PCs)
It's a shame, because Ubisoft will probably point to weak sales on the Wii U as a reason to not support it fully in future, but as a consumer, I'm going to buy a cheaper and more complete game on PC if I have the option between that and a more expensive game that's not as complete on the Wii U.
Re: Weirdness: These "Anywhere Buttons" Look Daft Wherever You Are
@Macarony64 original DS's thumbstrap was great for Mario 64 and Metroid Hunters - I preferred that to the current circle pad because the thumbstrap control seemed more accurate and less sticky than the 3DS's circle pad...
Re: Atari Founder Nolan Bushnell Claims Nintendo "Could Be On The Path To Irrelevance"
@zeal you're just repeating the same thing, I think we get it now. What you want is called a 'PC' - I've heard that Sony and Microsoft are about to release some locked-down PCs that you might be interested in
personally, I'm not a fan of multifunction devices: I prefer to use a proper camera, a proper handheld games console, I have a proper watch, and I find Nintendo make proper home games consoles. I have a PC for everything else, like media, games with pretty graphics, simulation games, and ...work.
Sure, if I wanted a half-arsed attempt at doing everything then I'd have an iphone, ipad, xbox, and playstation. But I want the best of all worlds because I'm greedy like that, so I have a Canon camera, Nintendo games consoles, a convertible ultrabook instead of a tablet, and a PC.
penny arcade nicely summed up both sides of the mobile games argument in this comic: http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/08/01
Re: Video: Watch_Dogs Footage Shows Off Hacking, Open-World Elements and Driving
@6ch6ris6 yeah I thought the same. being able to drive recklessly without any repercussions breaks immersion for me. imo, every time you go through a red light without hacking it to green first, every time you drive on the wrong side of the road, every time you destroy property or make an NPC jump out of the way; every action should slightly increase the 'heat level' you have.
(the original Driver game, despite all its flaws, did the 'driving carefully to avoid the cops spotting you' thing fairly well if I remember correctly)
@element187 I might have to wait and see... for me it'll be a decision between potential unique gamepad controls and off-screen play, versus the modability of the PC version.
If modders can do great things with the PC version (eg. a realism mod, to change the reckless driving thing, for instance) then I'll have to get that version.
Not to mention it'll probably be €20 or less on Steam in the winter sale this year, while the Wii U version will still be €70 to download, maybe €60 in shops...
Yeah, unless they do some great things with the gamepad then I probably won't get this one for Wii U, which is a shame :-/
Re: The World's Most Scathing Video Game Critic May Be Warming To Wii U
@All_DVD_Watchers - the original Wii can play DVD discs and media from network shares - it's been my living room media centre for years now!
Use the Homebrew Channel and its app browser to install DVD playback support and a media player (mplayer, geexbox, and wii radio are all good), and you're all set
It doesn't have the power to decode HD files though - stick with DVD-size videos.
Let's hope the HBC will be available for Wii U!
Re: Bethesda: The Time For Convincing Publishers And Developers To Support Wii U Is "Long Past"
yeah of course he's right, even if there's a photo of him grinning smugly about being so right.
if you're a games dev, which console are you gonna support: the one where the creators consult with you and give you info while they're designing it, or the one whose creators don't bother?
the fact he's in a position to make this choice mean that Nintendo need to change their ways, if they want to compete in that way. (if they choose to continue as they have been then it'll mean fewer 3rd-party games, but is this necessarily such a bad thing? personally I buy Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games, and any good 3rd party games are bonuses on top of that. but I am not an entire market )