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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Why the Wii will never get any better (Firmware Related)
« on: March 04, 2009, 08:15:15 AM »
Perhaps this is the lapsed gamer in me, but I read through that article twice and the only coherent points in there are:
- Don't expect a NXE-style UI overhaul between now and the Wii2
- Nintendo are making homebrew gamers' lives miserable.
All of which are bloody obvious. How did this get dragged out to three pages?
Of course Nintendo are going to be limited by their current hardware (and to a lesser extent, the system architecture). Its closer to an embedded architecture than it is to a general-purpose architecture like the 360 and the PS3 (don't play the Von Neumann card, you know what I mean), so they are working with a stricter set of constraints.
Sure, I was as pissed off as the next guy about their storage solution (treat it like a fridge?) but its not suddenly going to be "External Devices Free-For-All" day for Wii gamers - you know as well as I do that Ninty are stubborn about making changes - see 64DD, Twilight Princess - no matter what the backlash from thehardcore core whatever name you call them now gamers.
Other complaints from here (I can't be bothered quoting or even reading this whole thing, so if these are misguided or just plain wrong, troll back):
- The "Sony and Microsoft fighting for the living room space" by pushing out updates to the OS and UI, let them continue this silly trend. The only people who care about stuff like that are the current owners, and they're already a captive audience. I'm not buying a 360 because they suddenly added the ability to create an avatar - there's free MMOs for people who need that sort of fix.
- No way to apply features like Wii Speak support retroactively to games? So what - they'll probably release another one with slightly upgraded visuals, slap a year on the end, and get you to pay the same price again in 12 months. Oh, you didn't want to third parties to succeed - you just wanted more for free...
- Patching games after release - what happened to testing the thing before going gold? That how it happened in the old days. What? Games are more complex, bigger budgets, tighter deadlines, and now Dyack is chasing you with a blunt instrument? Well whose fault is that? I didn't ask for a mini-movie in the middle of each level. Get back to work! I'm fine with the "improvements to netcode" class of patches, but if its a game that can be played through in its entirety on ONE system, there is no excuse for a good testing process.
- The homebrew/piracy scene - stop complaining. You are free to do whatever you want with the machine, but you aren't entitled to an easy ride. If they're obfuscating the system to your hindrance, that's their choice. Why not put two Gamecubes together with duct tape and pretend to take that apart instead? You can break it to your hearts content and then throw it out when you realise you don't know how to put it back together again.
- Don't expect a NXE-style UI overhaul between now and the Wii2
- Nintendo are making homebrew gamers' lives miserable.
All of which are bloody obvious. How did this get dragged out to three pages?
Of course Nintendo are going to be limited by their current hardware (and to a lesser extent, the system architecture). Its closer to an embedded architecture than it is to a general-purpose architecture like the 360 and the PS3 (don't play the Von Neumann card, you know what I mean), so they are working with a stricter set of constraints.
Sure, I was as pissed off as the next guy about their storage solution (treat it like a fridge?) but its not suddenly going to be "External Devices Free-For-All" day for Wii gamers - you know as well as I do that Ninty are stubborn about making changes - see 64DD, Twilight Princess - no matter what the backlash from the
Other complaints from here (I can't be bothered quoting or even reading this whole thing, so if these are misguided or just plain wrong, troll back):
- The "Sony and Microsoft fighting for the living room space" by pushing out updates to the OS and UI, let them continue this silly trend. The only people who care about stuff like that are the current owners, and they're already a captive audience. I'm not buying a 360 because they suddenly added the ability to create an avatar - there's free MMOs for people who need that sort of fix.
- No way to apply features like Wii Speak support retroactively to games? So what - they'll probably release another one with slightly upgraded visuals, slap a year on the end, and get you to pay the same price again in 12 months. Oh, you didn't want to third parties to succeed - you just wanted more for free...
- Patching games after release - what happened to testing the thing before going gold? That how it happened in the old days. What? Games are more complex, bigger budgets, tighter deadlines, and now Dyack is chasing you with a blunt instrument? Well whose fault is that? I didn't ask for a mini-movie in the middle of each level. Get back to work! I'm fine with the "improvements to netcode" class of patches, but if its a game that can be played through in its entirety on ONE system, there is no excuse for a good testing process.
- The homebrew/piracy scene - stop complaining. You are free to do whatever you want with the machine, but you aren't entitled to an easy ride. If they're obfuscating the system to your hindrance, that's their choice. Why not put two Gamecubes together with duct tape and pretend to take that apart instead? You can break it to your hearts content and then throw it out when you realise you don't know how to put it back together again.
