The latest Mega Man downloadable title is too big for Nintendo's service.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/23996
At PAX, Capcom revealed that they wanted to release Mega Man Universe on WiiWare as well as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but the service's size restrictions prevented them from doing so. They are not able to do bring the game to WiiWare at this time.
Mega Man Universe is a classic Mega Man game featuring different characters, including three variations of Mega Man (Rock Man, Mega Man and Bad Box Art Mega Man) as well as Ryu from Street Fighter and other yet to be confirmed characters. The game was never announced for a WiiWare release, but is coming to Xbox Live and the Playstation Store in Spring 2011.
Looking back, it almost seems like Nintendo purposely designed the Wii firmware to be impossible to update.Actually, it's quite tailored for updates. But Nintendo chooses not to.
Looking back, it almost seems like Nintendo purposely designed the Wii firmware to be impossible to update.Actually, it's quite tailored for updates. But Nintendo chooses not to.
I do wonder if there is a lot of internal conflict between the hardware/firmware engineers and whoever makes later software decisions at Nintendo. Because it seems like a lot of thought went into the design (for all its limitations), but many of the interesting features were ultimately left unused.
(Is that why Netflix has a disc? They couldn't optimize their player for WiiWare?)That's actually a rather good question. With the Netflix disc, after you load it up, the disc stops spinning completely and never starts up again. This would mean that the entire program is loaded into the system's RAM, right? If that's true, then the current WiiWare limit isn't entirely because of RAM, though if it were lifted, the limit would then be the same amount as the RAM, I believe.
(Is that why Netflix has a disc? They couldn't optimize their player for WiiWare?)That's actually a rather good question. With the Netflix disc, after you load it up, the disc stops spinning completely and never starts up again. This would mean that the entire program is loaded into the system's RAM, right? If that's true, then the current WiiWare limit isn't entirely because of RAM, though if it were lifted, the limit would then be the same amount as the RAM, I believe.
Does it still require a disc? Is there any way to install the program on the PS3?
Does it still require a disc? Is there any way to install the program on the PS3?I think it has to do with an agreement that Netflix signed with M$ because when the 360 got Netflix streaming, they called it exclusive. So they got around that on other consoles by having streaming with a disc.
That's what points are for: if someone says something you were going to say, you applaud them.
I was confirming what you were speculating on (that the PS3 will get disc-free streaming next month) by letting the others know that Netflix themselves have confirmed it.
If you were referring to the people who replied after and said that too, I apologize. IG
That's what points are for: if someone says something you were going to say, you applaud them.
more like repeated what I already said, and then someone else repeated it again after that.... both minutes later.
Nintendo is the only company that ever has this **** happen. For the last ten years anytime you hear "well we couldn't do this because of this restriction" it's Nintendo. Every single fucking time.
Why don't they allow larger sizes? Because they don't have the storage space. Why don't they have more storage space? Because they didn't design the Wii to support hard drives so it has way less storage available than the other consoles. It always comes back to some very questionable Nintendo decision, usually one that anyone who didn't live in a bubble would not make.
