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platformmaster918 on 04 September 2014
MDX said:

 

To say that Nintendo has been slow to embrace many modern elements of gaming would be a massive understatement. They avoided HD and online gaming like the plague all the way up to the Wii U, and even now many of their efforts still feel half-baked. However, I don’t want to discuss their failures, or where they need work. Rather, I want to talk about what they are doing right, and that would be downloadable content.

 

 

See, I would never say Nintendo is behind the times, they just go their own pace.  And they usually inform the public why.

Sometimes its other companies that jump the gun, or blaze trails that make it look like Nintendo is slow.  

But at the end of the day, its not who did it first, its about how ends up doing it best, or appealingly different.

The results is as you have described:  AOC, Miiverse, etc.  Approaches that make their competitor's offerings look old hat.

 


 

 

 

As a WiiU and PS4 owner nothing the WiiU does makes the PS4's features look "old hat."  Miiverse doesn't really do anything that great in fact I feel less connected than on my other consoles.  It is nice that I can finally play Mario Kart and will be able to play Smash online and it's great that they added Youtube and Netflix (ok so Youtube came a little early lol) and the gamepad is nice for typing in those apps but I can connect my iphone with the PS4 (and PS3 for that matter) and do the same thing on there.




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platformmaster918 on 04 September 2014
iceland said:
outlawauron said:
So, they get praised for a season pass? Twilight zone stuff here.

Stop hating, this is an innovative idea.

It's hating if Nintendo isn't praised as innovative?  See this is why when I say I have a WiiU people tend to think I'm a Nintendo snob.  It's DLC at a good value just like Skyrim and Borderlands and Batman and many others before it.  They don't always have to be put on a pedestal.




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outlawauron on 04 September 2014
platformmaster918 said:
iceland said:
outlawauron said:
So, they get praised for a season pass? Twilight zone stuff here.

Stop hating, this is an innovative idea.

It's hating if Nintendo isn't praised as innovative?  See this is why when I say I have a WiiU people tend to think I'm a Nintendo snob.  It's DLC at a good value just like Skyrim and Borderlands and Batman and many others before it.  They don't always have to be put on a pedestal.

I'm pretty sure he was just being sarcastic.



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platformmaster918 on 04 September 2014
outlawauron said:
platformmaster918 said:
iceland said:
outlawauron said:
So, they get praised for a season pass? Twilight zone stuff here.

Stop hating, this is an innovative idea.

It's hating if Nintendo isn't praised as innovative?  See this is why when I say I have a WiiU people tend to think I'm a Nintendo snob.  It's DLC at a good value just like Skyrim and Borderlands and Batman and many others before it.  They don't always have to be put on a pedestal.

I'm pretty sure he was just being sarcastic.

whoops lol




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t3mporary_126 on 04 September 2014
badgenome said:
And yet, as long as your purchases aren't tied to your account, Nintendo is getting everything about digital fabulously wrong.


It is but it requires you to create a club nintendo account. Expectedly, its free.

They should try to make it more simple though.



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vkaraujo on 04 September 2014

I agree with the OP. That is not saying Nintendo DLC is the first that worth it, but they are getting this right with Pikmin 3, Super Luigi U and now MK8.

FE would be the exception, as each map was kind expensive (for a single map). Can't talk about Mario Golf, since i haven't played it



badgenome on 04 September 2014
t3mporary_126 said:

It is but it requires you to create a club nintendo account. Expectedly, its free.

They should try to make it more simple though.

Hmmm... how exactly does that work? I have a Club Nintendo account, but my understanding is that you have to call customer service and then they may or may not transfer the license for you, seemingly on their whim.