Updates are now part and parcel of the current generation of gaming. However, if you own a Wii console, it's sometimes a different story. Buy a buggy game and you might find yourself in real trouble (depending on the severity of the bug) because there is no automatic update.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
360 and PS3 owners take automatic game updates for granted. Nintendo should do the same - have internet-connected Wiis check for game updates each time the game is launched.
Updates are a necessity in today's games. In the past, games were a lot simpler and cheaper to make, but as they get more and more complex, more and more bugs and glitches will eventually seep through.
Then you've got the problem with multiplayer - a glitch that might make a game easier to beat in SP suddenly becomes an online exploit causing all sorts of trouble. With online gaming especially, patches are important.
Still, when a big game gets released, everyone seems to act surprised when a few bugs are discovered. Doesn't matter what side of the fence it's from, be it Killzone 2 or Gears of War 2, everyone's ready to jump on the "Lazy" developers for daring to release a "buggy" game.
I challenge any of you to download something like XNA and make a completely bug-free game. Making games is probably one of the hardest things you can do in software development.