Nintendo killing online services for Wii and DS.

[j-shot]

Your ups and downs weren't in the right order either, and it started with Gradius, not Contra. Still Konami and not Nintendo since it's on more than just Nintendo systems

Anyway...

The Wii sold exceptionally well, but that's no indication of how the online services for it were doing. I know plenty of people that bought a wii, and most of them have left it collecting dust in a closet for quite a while now. I don't know if the wii used the same moronic friend code system that the DS did, but if it the entire online functionality was even similar to the DSi(and even on the 3ds now it's pretty crap), that would have put it behind sony in terms of usability of the online service by a mile and wouldn't shock me in the least that Nintendo decided to abandon it relatively early after the launch of the wii-u.

Dankey kang... lol.

Yes it did/does.

[Merc1138]

Yes it did/does.

Yeah, that sounds pretty crappy then. I didn't even bother with the online stuff on the 3ds except getting my free games from the shop because of nintendo's dumb insistence on the friend code thing.

[beastie050]

Nintendo needs to get with the program, ditch consoles and just make games for other consoles.

[WASR10]

Since after the first couple weeks of owning it my Wii has been a Netflix and Hulu console. Maybe the occasional Mario Cart and Super Mario 1-3...

[sd_shooter]

You both must mean the Wii U as the Wii itself was a raging success for N.

I was joking

[Jason95357]

WiiTV is an example of the outright fail that Nintendo has become. It was an awesome concept - all your TV in one spot - live TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, and you could just search and then pick an episode and it'd jump you right to the service it was on - except it took forever to go from the WiiTV interface to the IOS for the streaming service, and then when it loaded half the time the episode was no longer on NF, Prime, or Hulu, so you had to wait for the WiiTV IOS to load again... again, epic failure for what should have been the coolest centralized TV service.

The concept of the WiiU Gamepad is cool, but the games just aren't there, and I sure am not going to drop $60 to see how bad they suck.

Perhaps that's me, as we are late adopters and we got very used to buying Wii games for $15-25 a year or so after the release. There aren't any more Wii titles we want to pick up at this point - we finally got Mario Kart (still stinking $30 used) and the girls who actually play the least are now into playing with the boys. We also finally picked up Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which the boys mostly want to play, but the yongest daughter is into now too. But when the fun of these two Christmas gifts wear off, don't think they're be many more puchases (and note, those were all old Wii titles we picked up used for Christmas of 2013).

The youngest boy has been wanting to get an Xbox for Halo and a PS for everything else - I just won't spend the money, and he's still too young to save up much (but he has $130 saved up over the last two years, but then there are about a half dozen things for ~$100 he wants to spend it on) - plus I'm just not into gaming any more, so I'm not dropping any cash other than to match money they save.

I did discover Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii just a stinking month before Nintendo was going to turn off service. I returned it to Gamestop and used the credit to buy Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate and I was so underwhelmed at it. It's literally sat on the shelf for a year, played perhaps an hour or two. I actually think that's what finally killed it for me.

I always was more of a PC gamer anyway, and really more into all the free OSS games that we could play on any platform, like BZFlag, FreeCiv, etc.

[Jason95357]

WiiTV is an example of the outright fail that Nintendo has become. It was an awesome concept - all your TV in one spot - live TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, and you could just search and then pick an episode and it'd jump you right to the service it was on - except it took forever to go from the WiiTV interface to the IOS for the streaming service, and then when it loaded half the time the episode was no longer on NF, Prime, or Hulu, so you had to wait for the WiiTV IOS to load again... again, epic failure for what should have been the coolest centralized TV service.

The concept of the WiiU Gamepad is cool, but the games just aren't there, and I sure am not going to drop $60 to see how bad they suck.

Perhaps that's me, as we are late adopters and we got very used to buying Wii games for $15-25 a year or so after the release. There aren't any more Wii titles we want to pick up at this point - we finally got Mario Kart (still stinking $30 used) and the girls who actually play the least are now into playing with the boys. We also finally picked up Super Smash Bros. Brawl, which the boys mostly want to play, but the yongest daughter is into now too. But when the fun of these two Christmas gifts wear off, don't think they're be many more puchases (and note, those were all old Wii titles we picked up used for Christmas of 2013).

The youngest boy has been wanting to get an Xbox for Halo and a PS for everything else - I just won't spend the money, and he's still too young to save up much (but he has $130 saved up over the last two years, but then there are about a half dozen things for ~$100 he wants to spend it on) - plus I'm just not into gaming any more, so I'm not dropping any cash other than to match money they save.

I did discover Monster Hunter Tri on the Wii just a stinking month before Nintendo was going to turn off service. I returned it to Gamestop and used the credit to buy Monster Hunter Tri Ultimate and I was so underwhelmed at it. It's literally sat on the shelf for a year, played perhaps an hour or two. I actually think that's what finally killed it for me.

I always was more of a PC gamer anyway, and really more into all the free OSS games that we could play on any platform, like BZFlag, FreeCiv, etc.

Oh well, guns and rifles are much more fun and serve a practical purpose. I'd rather keep the kids out at the range, BLM land, getting more into archery, biking, and kayaking anyway. Better life skills than sitting in front of a TV. ;-)

[Merc1138]

Nintendo will survive just fine without having to become a publisher/dev and ditching the hardware business. They've had plenty of massively expensive flops before.

All they need to do is figure out how they screwed up this time, and fix it next time around. That'll probably mean making their online services not suck, failing to understand that with inferior hardware the Wii sold well due to it's pricepoint(and why the wii-u with inferior hardware isn't selling worth a crap), ditching a lame gimmick that drives the system price through the roof(it's not as if they haven't had lame gimmicks in the past).

At the very least, they've managed to finally start overcoming the "crappy kiddie console with crappy kiddie games" stigma with some of the third party publishers and developers they've gotten onboard in the past couple of years.

[the86d]

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