Wii U achievements?

[d21lewis]

RolStoppable said:

d21lewis said:

It is possible.  But with Achievements, it's all right there in you profile.  You know this but I'll just humor you.  Remember how you and I double teamed Resident Evil Revelations and totally raped Raid Mode?  Anybody from our friends lists could just look at our profiles, look at the games we played, and see how badass we were (you more than me but we won't get into that).  You could look at your friends and compare and say "I'm better than them at Mario Kart, Street Fighter, and Super Mario but they're better than me at Starfox."  No extra effort.  You beat the goal and it's there in your profile forever.  Nobody will ever know how great you were at RE: R.  If rumors are true, there will be Xbox/Playstation gamers that will get the game, do exactly what you and I did, and have that little notch added to their virtual bedpost.  We did it but people will just have to take our words for it.

Every new console has the option, now, but Nintendo consoles don't.

And on the flipside, if you are one of the persons who doesn't care too much about showing off, it's a meaningless feature. The vast majority of gamers fall into that camp. Some, because they are genuinely not interested at all. Some, because they aren't all that good at games and know that they'll never come close to achieve all the things good gamers do. Some, because they play games to have fun and don't believe that you can achieve anything substantial in a video game; they rather invest their energy into achieving things in real life instead. There are a lot of reasons to not care about achievements.

On gaming forums, however, achievements are of incredible importance. That's because the people who are attracted to such forums are often people who like to show off; and most of them are obviously male, because females in general don't have the same drive for competition. So you end up with a general consensus that suggests that a system-wide achievement system is a necessity. You are looking at a sample that is not representative of the actual market.

So Nintendo consoles don't have a system-wide achievement system. An insignificant minority will complain. It happens.

On a personal level, it doesn't bother me that Nintendo consoles don't have a system-wide achievement system; for that to happen I would have to care in the first place. On a business level, it doesn't hurt Nintendo to ignore a tiny minority of the market, so from that point of view I don't have any objections to Nintendo's decision either.

Yeah, but then, you could just ignore them if you don't care about them.  I just know that nobody really cared about Uncharted until Sony gave it a trophy patch (first retail game to get the patch, btw).  Then, the game exploded.  People like 'em.