Sounds good to me. I don't mind achievements - some times I even like them, especially if they unlock stuff in the game - but many times they are just shoehorned in for the sake of being there. Unless your game is really bad and people playing it really deserves a medal for each stage cleared then what's the point of getting an achievement for doing nothing but progressing through the game?

So I'm definitely in favour of this decision. Developers are free to include any amount of achievements but aren't forced to do it. I'll still be able to show off my unlocked achievements through Miiverse. That's enough for me personally, though I understand why people who like having the total of all achievements from all games available are furious.

It should be up the developers themselves imo, forcing them to do so would surely act as a disincentive to develop on the platform. I also dislike the whole competitive nature that trophies and achievements have taken.

That said, I feel that many more games should use Sakurai's 'prize wall', imo achievements done right

I think that sounds more like someone not caring for what someone else likes and instead of just stating that, they instead go on and badmouth those that do.

That is just elitism at it's finest.

Yeah, achievements for me is something like Super Smash Bros trophies or Zelda Minish Cap statues... something you crave to get, that have a separate page inside the game menu and you can admire them - with a little bit of info tidbit - what? Ice Climbers original enemy was a baby seal you had to club?

Not a pop in.

I believe this may show how many developers care to put these types of things into their software and how many, when given the chance, will pass on it. Other than that, I am not one to care as those things do not affect me in any way. If I want to play a game again, I will because I want to and that is thee only reason.

I can understand why some would care, but it is a fairly meaningless feature in my opinion.

It seems to me like it would largely be a non-issue except for certain first-party Nintendo games, third party exclusives, and smaller games where Achievements have never been the right fit anyway

Think about it: with Achievements and Trophies in place, third parties running quick multiplats will have a selection of these sorts of things in place already, which they can slap a different name on and call it a day.

I was being serious!

Or am I?

I got so used to these kinds of achievements/trophies that I feel really bad playing Max Payne 3. I'm on Chapter VIII and I've only got 4% of the trophies since the game gives very few "story trophies".

Good. I love the Xbox 360 (my favourite system this generation) but Achievements annoy the hell out of me.

I'm not too interested either way in achievements etc, however coming from the "Gotta collect them all company" you would have thought that just maybe they would have had a system like this in place a long time ago.