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10:37 PM on 11.12.2008
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This sort of anti-consumer restriction is getting out of hand.
Die in a fire. Thanks.
See you 'round.
1: Why are they doing it with a peripheral? I didn't think gaming peripherals were big in the pre-owned market.
2: Why the hell am I seeing a banner add for the Book of Mormon? Didn't think we had a huge Mormon community here at Destructoid.
BUT!!
It is the trend/slippery slope I am most worried about.
Case Closed.
Fuck you Nintendo, you used to be my favourite company, now I just feel abused and neglected.
I can't tell if this is sarcastic. Last I checked, plenty of people are still going to the theaters.
Ya, it's sarcasm.
If it gives me multiple wives who go work all day while I sit and do shit I'll believe anything you want.
Who really cares? It will end up rotting away in a dusty closet after you play the one game for it like every other device Nintendo ever made.
If they make the channel available separately for say 500 Wii points, however, then I have little problem with this.
Fucking hell. Well, here is your DRM console gamers.
I have only seen We ♥ Katamari once in game crazy.
(although the nice thing about Game Crazy, they also sell games that are out of circulation in Hollywood video, I managed to get a cheap copy of REZ)
So nintendo giving me even less incentive to bother with it is actauly helpful.
but it's still dickish though.
In 20 years, when someone wants to play that "retro" console the Wii, they won't be able to use this, and probably future, accessories.
In short, Nintendo seem to be taking steps to ensure the Wii doesn't last
Wouldn't it be better marketing to release the channel for free, so people want to buy the WiiSpeak for that?
Also I have a brilliant idea for Nintendo: Next time include a one time only code with the WiiMotionPlus, that needs to be activated online to make the thing work on a specific Wii. Go Nintendo!
Why do you even give a shit about this? The fact that something you don't want is possibly being taken away from you if you happen to buy it used upsets you? WiiSpeak only cost $30 new so its not like its all that expensive if you want the stupid Voice Chat Channel that bad. Which you'll probably never use even if you had it. This doesn't effect using it in games in the least its just for the WiiSpeak Channel. My god talk about people over-reacting over nothing here!
Try not being so short sighted.
Also do these companies realize that people trade in their stuff to pay for new stuff? If people cannot trade in items to go towards new stuff, that's about half their sales right there. Not only that, every game store company will be forced to either stop selling their items or charge $10-$20 above MSRP to actually make profits. I know game stores pay only about 1-2$ less then what the game costs, so they can't make profits off of new items. I know that GameStop (One of, if not the largest retailer of video games) cannot stay in business doing that. ALL of their profits come from used sales, not new.
In the long run all these game companies are screwing themselves over. I know Gamestops ideology lately in stuff like this is if they can't make a profit off of it, they won't sell it. Nintendo will basically need to sell this off of their site and their site only cause Gamestop wont touch it.
No they wont, they'd all go out of business. NO game company can afford to sell their games.
Yeah I'm so sure the people at Nintendo come to destructoid to read you're complaints. Being short sighted is you acting like this matters on the Wii. People like you are worried over this happening on games like Gears 2, RockBand 2, and NBA Live where you get a code to get certain features, and can't get said features if you buy the games used. This is nothing like that its a freaking Voice Chat Channel on the Wii's Menu it has nothing to do with the games themselves. Animal Crossing is working just fine right now, and this WiiSpeak Channel doesn't come out till December so obviously it works without it.
Games on the Wii are never going to be like the 360 with code based incentives of getting map-packs because the Wii doesn't have any place to store them as it has no hard drive. So yet again this is just displace anger because of something that's happening on the 360. People freaked out when Pay To Play on the Wii was announced just the same, and now its fine. People know it only means DLC in the games, and not pay to play them online like you have to on the 360. So I would rather be short sighted than over-exaggerate on something with no facts (just wide BS speculation) to back it up.
So Nintendo, EA, and others can sit there and think they are making more money by preventing resell. What they are really doing is pissing off their core consumer, preventing sales that would have otherwise transpired, and in no way hindering the pirates out there that are the real ones stealing everything.
We give a damn because if people don't voice their concerns, they'll do it with other products that we might care about.
As a person who almost always buy used games, I think that Nintendo can just burn to death. I wasn't planning to buy a used WiiSpeak, but when this start happening to games, i'm fucked.
Also, Skype for the win. I f Nintendo really want's my money, it really should start acting like a decent company again.