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the_dengle said:

Kotaku

“Once you start getting into game-specific [Achievements] that’s developer driven.” Microsoft may require every game to have Achievements, but, Fils-Aime said, “That is not our philosophy.”

Basically, Nintendo won't force developers to implement achievements, and that is literally all we know about the matter at this point. It seems likely they'll let the developers decide how they want to use achievements. I'd be willing to bet that developers of multi-plat games won't go out of their way to remove achievements from the Wii U versions of their games, but I don't know whether Nintendo is planning to support achievements on an individual basis in their broader online strategy.


i'm glad you got that quote in.  i was going to try and quote it from the top of my head and probably mangle it.  and i agree with that bit ... as long as the system is close enough to translate i can't see them removing code that is already there.  i must say though, in the early days the ps3 where not every game had trophies i was pretty angry about the universal support.  i think nintendo not not requiring it is a mistake.