Why I Will Eventual Hate my Wii, and am starting to right now

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by manasecret

Horrendously stupid decision by Nintendo. Of course, that is from my consumer perspective. But even from Nintendo's perspective, how many sales have they lost because of people thinking like Angrist -- what happens to my games when my Wii dies or I get a new console?

I think it's something they will have to change eventually, especially when next-gen rolls around. So why not just change it now? They finally made playing off SD cards possible, but after what, two, three years? That should have been there day one.

I honestly think its because Nintendo didnt put any safeguards against abusing the system.

What's to stop me from going to friend's house and dumping my entire VC/WiiWare collection on their console, and stealing theirs.

Not really sure how they can get around it unless they tie your account to a single console... you know what nevermind, just answered my own question

[Vampyr]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

I honestly think its because Nintendo didnt put any safeguards against abusing the system.

What's to stop me from going to friend's house and dumping my entire VC/WiiWare collection on their console, and stealing theirs.

Not really sure how they can get around it unless they tie your account to a single console... you know what nevermind, just answered my own question

...there is no safeguard against doing this on any existing system today. I can go home to my brother's Xbox and download every arcade game I've ever bought to his system.

I'm sorry, getting your games pirated sucks, but if you are going to support downloadable digital media, you have to do it this way, and accept the facts of life. Every other company lets you do this - Nintendo has absolutely no excuse. And having to mail your two Wii systems back in (on your down dime) in order for them to manually check to see if the games exist on one system, then move it over to another one, is not an acceptable solution.

However, I think they have shot themselves in the foot. This is -the- single most solid reason I have ever seen to pirate video games. A friend of mine at work was explaining how simple it is to mod a Wii and even pirate VC games. I'm going to do this. I'm not sure if I'm going to pirate games I haven't bought yet, but I will at least be pirating the ones I paid for just to have them backed up safely on my own hard drive.

I just cannot believe the lack of tact and judgement Nintendo has demonstrated in every one of their decisions towards the online community. Their online gaming system sucks, their online store sucks, the quality of their online play sucks. I've come to the conclusion they just don't want you to have an enjoyable online experience.

I would love it if Nintendo would just become a game producer, and instead of the VC we had all of their titles available on 360 Arcade and PSN arcade.

I just feel incredibly duped (maybe due to my own stupidity) for not realizing what I was purchasing. I've become so accustomed to things being done the correct way, I didn't even think about how I was purchasing games not under a common account.

[TheSlyMoogle]

yeah the wii is super pirate city. Probably the most simplistic console in the history of consoles to mod. However I still don't even think it's worth the effort. Lol. Might as well just download all the VC stuff in its ROM form, and From my understanding most of the wii only VC stuff isn't worth purchasing.