Nintendo will join the likes of Apple, Android others with a full-fledged app store for Wii U, according to a new rumour.
The as-yet-unnamed Wii U App Store, it says, will feature a "wider variety of apps", with offerings "such as MLB.TV" that will work on the console, and others that will run "independently" on the screen-equipped controller.
The report cites "a person familiar with the matter".
This comes after separate rumours earlier today claimed that the platform holder is to include E-Book reading capabilities in its next console.
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Imaduck on 4 Jan '12 said:
Apple's court calendar is going to be busy this year
TOKEN on 4 Jan '12 said:
Wii Universe digital shop,here this ay help them in the courts.
Aer0Smith360 on 4 Jan '12 said:
I can't see this taken off the way Nintendo want it too! I mean consumers already have tablet's and can access applications through iTunes/Android. Why would the consumers purchase the applications again but for the WiiU Tablet plus the fact that most iPad/Tablet user's use the device in the living room which is where the WiiU shall be! Also won't this hurt the 3DS in the sense of that the WiiU tablet works as a handheld device? (i know it has to be within range of the WiiU)...Hope Nintendo have another success on their hands but I just can't see this being a huge success compared to the Wii!
I wouldn't be surprised if the next handheld from Nintendo would be a Tablet...WiiU could be the first step to see how well it does?
corkscru74 on 4 Jan '12 said:
Because not EVERY consumer owns a tablet! In fact, of my thoroughly techy friends only one has owned an iPad (or any tablet) and they sold it within a month.
MPH on 4 Jan '12 said:
R App Store?
Megatrons_Fury on 4 Jan '12 said:
One thing Nintendo absolutely suck at is anything online...........
Jap developers and companies have ZERO idea how to appeal to the western markets on this, its something that needs to change very soon or they are quite frankly doomed.
Im looking forward to the WII U, i love me some of that nintendo stuff so it cant get here quick enough however i already know it will be too expensive, have some stupid limitations with internet usage, wont use the tablet properly for about 2 years until second and third gen games come out, have terrible third party support, not embrace stuff like dlc or achievements and have totally over priced network and retro based content.
Ahh Nintendo, i love you so much, why must you hurt me so....... I forgive you, lets hug it out
TheLastDodo on 4 Jan '12 said:
"not embrace stuff like dlc or achievements"
How is this a bad thing?
Megatrons_Fury on 4 Jan '12 said:
Its unwise to not offer your customers the gaming standards that your competitors offer, thats just common snese in this day and age.
For a lot of people having extra stuff added to games, take DISGAEA 4 for example and its support of extra characters and story based missions upto a year after original release is a great idea, not the crap that COD fags put up with like maps made during original development of title then sold for 11.99.... yeah hi dumb cod people, how are you all today.... Still unemployed and wearing clothes from sports direct!!!
DLC when done properly is fantastic, it should always be micro transaction based, no more than say 99p - 1.99 and it would help stop people playing something then getting rid within 10 days or so meaning theres no online community for any other title except the stuff you play...... BURN....Ouch (sorry, hugs?)
Achievemnts actually help a lot of people, people like me who have (dont mean to brag so dont hate on me) thousands of games (collector) to actually sit down and play something until the end, before during the days of snes, n64, ps1, saturn, dreamcast, ps2, xbox, cube etc etc etc i would just go from one week to another puting something into the consoles playing for a couple of hours then onto new release, now i still continue to play any old crap game i come across
PUSS IN BOOTS.... WOHOOOOO (sorry)
But rather than just giving up after an hour or so i activate my OCD into overdrive and see exactly how many trophies i can get, its shallow, its silly, its kinda pathetic but it helps me to actively seek out and play/collect as much gaming stuff as i can.
If i was like most other gamers (cough) then i would have missed out on things like SPACE MARINE, SHADOWS OF THE DAMNED, FEAR 3, RED FACTION ARMAGEDDON and a whole host of other gems this past year because i would not have bothered playing past the first level.
I'm a complicated person DODO, we both know this, i can play 350 hours on Disgaea 4 and still not be anywhere near completion, play 2 days straight of captain america, love it because its just like BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM, whack on sonic generations and wonder how sega killed their own franchise so easily time and time again since SONIC CD.
The fact that you like me are a PS PLUS subscriber and yet you dont see the merit of dlc or network games makes me wonder why you signed up for it in the first place, got you there buddy.
Oh yeah, stop sending me links to websites via psn, you know me never clicks on those, just tell me whats happening with wrecked, i can take it, im a big boy....
(Braces himself for bad news, ready to cry)
TheLastDodo on 4 Jan '12 said:
There's a difference between offering something useful such as I dunno say Party Chat for online multiplayer and achievements, trophies/achievements are just a cleverly devised way to get fools to part with their cash, you've read about people that bought awful games like Hanna Montana cos it was an easy platinum surely?
Well, when I first signed up it was because they were offering PSN games I didn't own so it WAS a good deal, nowadays Plus is most useful to me for automatic patch downloads and cloud save storage.
Megatrons_Fury on 4 Jan '12 said:
Party chat if you ask many 360 owners has ruined xbox live because now people do not talk to each other just the people in their paty, its made it very hard for folk to meet new players
Anything can be abused, trophies are an easy thing to abuse and yes loads of folk have bought games for an easy platy, hell even i have played games for this reason alone, does that make me a fool, bit harsh i think, for me a fool is a person who never learns from a mistake not a person who makes a mistake
Im just saying that if you can offer everything your competitor does then add a few more things on top with Nintendo it would be their entire back catalogue of genuine retro treats at silly good prices then you stand to make more friends than enemies, i am right, right???
You can easily say that those with a low achievement / trophy score are casual gamers who just play triple a yearly updates like fifa or cod and those with high trophy/achievement scores are sad trophy whores but i like to think this.........
Those with low scores play what they like, games are for fun not a competition and for them its about entertainment, for the higher scoring folk yeah its about competition for some but for folk like me its about getting your grubby hands on as many games as you can and playing them to death because something compels you to do so, like OCD.
Again i say that theres nothing wrong wth achievements or dlc, its as standard now as online play and voice chat, the same way that cloud based saving is now becoming a standard, more is better than less in most instances, this is one.
However as is always the case, quality is always better than quantity.. FACT
Now are you going to tell me whats happening with WRECKED or just keep poking me with a stick today?
TheLastDodo on 4 Jan '12 said:
That website says it's releasing february 2012, I sent you the link so you could decide for yourself as to how credible the site seemed, I wouldn't get your hopes up.
No I just think it's sad that people can't enjoy games like they would've done ten years ago, you didn't need trophies to replay games ten years ago, if the game was fun enough you'd play it to death or replay it, either in the same exact way or a new way.
As for being a fool, yeah it might've been a tad harsh but I just can't understand why would you spend money on a game that you know you won't like to unlock a virtual trophy?
Fr33Kye on 4 Jan '12 said:
Trophies and achievements are way more than just a way to get people to buy bad games. Seriously think about what trophies and achievements actually mean!
If idiots take them seriously then fine, but that doesn't take away their value.
An app store is a great thing.
TheLastDodo on 4 Jan '12 said:
You're going to have be way more specific than that Fr33Kye.
As far as I can see there's no value, well beyond who's got the bigger e-penis, it's just a cleverly devised marketing trick.
Izo on 4 Jan '12 said:
I agree heavily with this, Trophies and Achievements have never been a factor in what games I buy and enjoy they have no value on the actual game itself, do 10 headshots so a congratulations message pops up? Yeah that's really adding something to the game.
Mmmmgrolsch on 4 Jan '12 said:
Trophies are great imo. I would never decide to base my choice of purchase on Trophies, I'll admit though that I don't like playing games without them
They mean nothing but I love the challenge of collecting them all in a game, really satisfying when you spend 3 hours on a final boss on the hardest difficulty for that all important Platinum.
@ Megatron. I hope Ninty don't 'embrace' DLC. DLC is the virus of this gen, very very rarely has it been to offer anything other than to rip people off with s**t content and lack of content.
Balladeer on 4 Jan '12 said:
I think there are pros and cons to both.
Pros of trophies: Extends a game, gives a feeling of satisfaction
Cons of trophies: Cheap method of extending a game and giving a feeling of satisfaction.
My verdict: A game ought to be able to hold your attention, have some depth and give you satisfaction by means of fun gameplay and actual rewards, not by just a stupid one-line quip. Strongly anti.
Pros of DLC: Gives you extra content.
Cons of DLC: Allows developers to ask for more money for the other half of the game.
My verdict: This one's not so clear cut. While (to use a Nintendo example) I want to have a good 40 or so fighters from the get-go in the next SSB, I'd be perfectly willing to shell out a reasonable price for a pack of five more after I'd had the game for six months to give the game a new lease of life. I would not be happy with an SSB that started off with less fighters than Brawl and had you paying for more from the start, charging you a pound per fighter. So cautiously pro, but they have to be used right.
As for apps.? Don't really care, to be frank. Downloadable titles have to be really good to hold my attention, but at least they're usually cheap.
Mmmmgrolsch on 4 Jan '12 said:
I was in the same boat before Trophies came to PS3. A lot of games make good use of them but some use them as a cheap method to make up for the poor or lack of game.
TheLastDodo on 4 Jan '12 said:
I'm sure many other games have done this but only one game is popping into my head at the moment.
I liked how Uncharted had, instead of trophies, it's own in-game reward system , for ex. Kill X enemies with Y weapon, you then get some in-game currency that you can spend on alternate costumes, gold guns, unlimited ammo, big head mode, developer diary vids etc.
Resistance 3 has a similar reward system, I wish more games would do things like this.
Fr33Kye on 4 Jan '12 said:
Come 'on guys?! From a developer perspective trophies allow them to show gamers new ways to play, acknowledge there accomplishments, encourage them to explore, and simply threw the name of some trophies provide them with more story info and give more meaning and character to the game and the players actions, kind of like naming a chapter of a book. And comparing trophies isn't just about the size of your e-penis, although i'm sure that's a lot of it, it allows you to track the progress of the people on your friends list. There is a lot more to it than just empty rewards to make idiots feel better.
Balladeer on 4 Jan '12 said:
But there shouldn't need to be this sort of encouragement! If it's fun to play a game in some new way, gamers will discover that. If it's not, it's not; in which case, games should offer proper rewards, like Dodo mentions above. A trophy just means one less proper reward for a developer to have to offer.
There's nothing wrong with having trophies in a game if you weren't going to offer anything else anyway, but even then it seems like a cheap stringing-out of a game's life (I feel the same about hard modes); and you can at least bloody well get some concept art art of you art-chive, you slacker!
Izo on 4 Jan '12 said:
Exactly the game itself has the depth if the player desires it a little box of text makes no difference, if a developer requires it to encourage players then the is something wrong. On hard modes it depends on what a developer does, RE4 had extra scenarios in harder difficulties for example and action games change the Ai and types of enemies you fight so even then achievements and trophies fall behind.
TheLastDodo on 4 Jan '12 said:
RPG's encourage you to replay a game with a new character with different skills. No need for trophies. Look at a game like Crysis, would people need trophies to think "I'll play stealth first then I'll replay as a runner & gunner"?
Encourage exploration - games like Skyrim encourage exploration naturally by giving you reasons (missions, loot) to explore, whereas for ex. Uncharted I accidentally found a treasure so I decide to look for more. No need for trophies.
Compare with friends - I actually talk to my friends list, I ask them about the games they play, what they thought of the ending, how they got past a certain boss, whats the best weapon to use for a certain task. No need for trophies.
Games like Bioshock & Dead Space provide story info through audio logs, Heavy Rain is an example of a game that gives meaning to a players actions. No need for trophies.
Honestly I'm not just saying this to provoke a reaction Fr33Kye but I really don't believe there is more to it
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Mmmmgrolsch on 4 Jan '12 said:
Without trophies I wouldn't have ever finished any game more than once. No matter what the benefits were of 2nd play through I wouldn't play any game twice, that's how I've always been. Since trophies though I have discovered the wonderful world of harder difficulty's and the like. Look at Deus Ex. My favourite game of all time, played that through twice once guns blazing the other super stealth without killing a soul. No way I would have done it twice even though the game is a different experience 2nd time through.
Recently I've found games to be much much more enjoyable on the hardest difficulty. KZ3 was utter s**t imo on normal mode, on Elite it was such an enjoyable experience. Then look at CoDs, meh on Normal but on Veteran especially in the case of MW3 Veteran was awesome. Thing is if it wasn't for trophies I wouldn't get these better game experiences as I have never in my life prior to them played a game on anything higher than normal mode.
Trophies add a lot to a game when done correctly, not just in terms of value or re-playability but in the way I branch out and try different approaches and different modes in my games. Its not the games fault that I've never cared for anything that blasting through the game once in my own way ignoring anything extra just to complete the campaign etc.
The only games to ever made me want to complete everything and explore everything are the FF series (best series of games in the history of games until it died a couple of years ago, RIP SE) and Spyro
Trophies <3
Mmmmgrolsch on 4 Jan '12 said:
That uncharted example, they are the trophies I hate, I f**king hate looking around for some meaningless treasures! Trophies are there for us that like to have a challenge and get rewarded for it.
I would much prefer a stats page assigned to my PSN ID than trophies though.
TheLastDodo on 4 Jan '12 said:
The lines of pity and envy are beginning to blur
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Honestly I don't know how you think like that Grolsch, Deus Ex, your favourite game of all time, a game with more depth and replayability than most games out there, a game that offers you a different experience when choosing a different play style, and you only replayed it because you need to hear that beep, you need to see that msg pop up in the corner.
You do understand how that can appear........a little strange?
Mmmmgrolsch on 4 Jan '12 said:
I didn't say I replayed it because I needed that trophy, I'm saying if it wasn't for trophies I wouldn't have ever replayed any games ever. Its made me see that replaying games isn't always s**t, so Deus Ex would have not been played twice.
Anyway I have played plenty of games numerous times for trophies even if I didn't want to play it again. I never wanted to play UC2 again for the 4th f**king time because once you've done it once you've done it a 100 times.
TheLastDodo on 4 Jan '12 said:
So you needed the buzz.
Interesting.
Izo on 4 Jan '12 said:
Tbh Grolsch it is a bit odd we replay games because they have depth or something good about them Trphies and Achievements have no bearing on the game they're just boxes of text that pop up.
TheLastDodo on 4 Jan '12 said:
Whats even odder is Izo has admitted to not particularly caring for trophies/achievements earlier, yet he proudly shows off his trophies/achievements cards in his sig.
It's a funny little phenomenon aint it?
Fr33Kye on 4 Jan '12 said:
It's not about a "requirement". Very few things are required. It's an option that developers have to enhance what already exists. It wouldn't make any sense to take them away.
I dont have the time right now to read all your posts but i'll take a look at them later. My point isn't that trophies are necessary, my point is that they have value. They give additional weight to actions and decisions and can give more character to the game. None of this is necessary, but none of it does anything other than help the game.
rbt2 on 4 Jan '12 said:
I didn't need sum sorta trophy when I beat SMK or SMW.......or SM64 or Metroid or yadda yadda yadda........please note that yadda yadda yadda may or may not have been a Nintendo game. Unless Nintendo were a jewish company, of course.
They weren't.
Were they?
rbt2 on 4 Jan '12 said:
Cos if they were then.......Oy Vay!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mmmmgrolsch on 4 Jan '12 said:
I just enjoy collection trophies on my favourite games. If that makes me weird then so be it
If we're talking about Achievements then they are just crap imo.
TheLastDodo on 4 Jan '12 said:
Aren't they just the same thing?
Mmmmgrolsch on 4 Jan '12 said:
Are was baiting, yeah they are but I prefer the trophies due to the Plat.
ricflair on 4 Jan '12 said:
They're the same to me, all the platinum trophy seems to be is an indicator of how many games you've 1000G'd. It's getting the individual trophy that I enjoy, I've never bothered going for a Platinum etc, I think the closest I got was 950 on Blur and that was just because I really enjoyed playing the game online and off.
I think they're worthwhile though - I guess they save you the hassle of making your own personal goals within a game. But it would be nice if the things they encouraged you to do led to in game benefits. But I generally hate collectables that have no benefit in game - shooting pigeons in GTA, treasures in UC etc... at least collecting flowers etc in RDR had some in game worth.
Izo on 4 Jan '12 said:
Not really it's just for people who want to add me, my achievements and trophies aren't very high to even show off.
Mmmmgrolsch on 4 Jan '12 said:
Yeah collectibles in any game is s**t, the only game that has done decent ones is Mafia 2 because we get see some boobs.
Izo on 4 Jan '12 said:
Except it enhances nothing and don't give any weight or character to an action or game it's a box of text that just pops up.
rbt2 on 5 Jan '12 said:
Same here.
In fact, my achievements are those of a total c**t.
Good job then that I let someone else play my PS3.
P.S.
The above may or may not be true.
P.P.S
I'm total s**te so the above is true.