Nintendo Hopes Cash Will Convince You To Use Your Wii U

[Snotnarok]

The problem is that the digital rights for the WiiU are awful, locked to the hardware? It's psychoticly stupid you're locked to having Nintendo repair your device and then when they're done with the WiiU your games are screwed again. To top it off if you have a 3DS and you want to play your Super Metroid on it, well you just get to buy it twice. On the PSN if you buy a PSOne game it's cross platform, have it on your PS3, PSP, PSV all at the same time.

The other problem is the games are far overpriced, about 8-9 dollars for games of the 16 bit era? You can get the original carts often for cheaper, never the less the various collections that trump that terribly. 1 Sonic game for 9? How about all the genesis and some game gear titles for 12. Not enough? Well how about the packs on steam: 10 genesis games for 7.50. 9 bucks for Megaman X? What a steal, except you can find the X collection for 17, same goes for the Megaman collection. Again, titles are locked to the single WiiU hardware making the value of these classics even lower.

It's an overpriced, poorly thought out service and their promise of some extra cash just doesn't make up for the massive faults.

 

[theultimateend]

The Escapist "Journalists" can make even the best news sound negative.
Seriously, they are effectively giving you 10% discount on online store purchases.
Add to that the 10% that you get for buying the WiiU Delux (how come that so many people don't know about this? You get 10% of every online purchase back on your e-wallet and is there anyone who bought the basic pack?), that's a 20% slice. Buy 5 games and get 1 for free.

While this certainly isn't something that would make someone buy a WiiU, it is a nice promotion from Nintendo's side and it's disgusting that you try to make it sound negative. For fucks sake, it sounds like it's an evil scheme from which the consumer won't profit at all.

This certainly isn't PC sales level, but it is a nice start and there is absolutely nothing that could be considered negative in this.

Is it all the journalists? I've only noticed one person being consistently snarky.

It's not a bad system, but it is graphically inferior to the consoles Microsoft and Sony are about to release, and more crucially, the device's selection of games is woefully lacking.

"Not a bad system"
*immediately gives two big reasons for why it's a bad system*

I don't follow your line of thinking here.

But I do understand Nintendo's Pennies From Heaven approach to sales and "deals"; namely, that they're barely deals at all.
10% is a little more than enough to cover tax on purchases.

I really don't see how graphical power matters anymore. Graphically intense games are not exactly doing great. If it isn't a blockbuster they stop making any more of a franchise. With games that use old tricks to look good (like cell shading) you can be a success with less sales.

I'm still getting a PS4 but I suspect considering graphical power as a selling point is only further digging these consoles into a pit that can only be dug out of with heavily handed consumer harming practices.

 

[Icehearted]

Wii U's eShop

See, thing with this is that I can save more money buying physical copies of games I want to play that I would get by sinking money into this thing's eShop. All this does, unless I'm missing something here, is accentuate why Digital Distribution is still a very weak platform for anything outside of mobile devices.

Barring the exclusivity factor, that's moot, as any platform has exclusives, and on that note one could easily argue that there are PC exclusives that far surpass the WiiU eShop items in both quantity and quality.

 

[Reynaert]

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The Escapist "Journalists" can make even the best news sound negative.
Seriously, they are effectively giving you 10% discount on online store purchases.

This is not a 10% discount. Basically you are putting £55 on your Nintendo account and you get a £5 discount. 5/55 is less than 10%, not much less of course, but still less. The thing is, now you have £5 sitting on your account. Are there many £5 games in the Nintendo online store?

 

[anon252]

I don't see how this is a "cry for attention." Nintendo has offered something similar to this since the systems release. It was just exclusive to the Deluxe version. The Deluxe Digital Promotion, get 10% back on what you spend on the eShop. A code for $5 for every $50 you spend. Now it's basically just temporarily also available for Wii U basic owners and bumps up deluxe owners from 10% to 20% back. And the money you get through DDP should also go towards getting another $5 as you spend it, which is nice.