Hey Nintendo guess what? YOU SUCK!

[Luk3us 63]

Nearly three weeks after Metroid Other M hit store shelves in Japan (and a month after its US release) Nintendo released a statement on Monday via the official Japanese Metroid website commenting on a game-breaking glitch that occurs in Sector 3.

 

Nintendo says that the bug, which renders players unable to advance, occurs if players obtain the Ice Beam and then backtrack after defeating the "two-legged spiked enemy" instead of opening the next door. The company says that proceeding forward after the battle should prevent the glitch from occuring.

 

Besides an apology and tips for avoiding the glitch, Nintendo is also offering to repair saved game data for those players who are stuck. However, the fix requires that you physically send your save data to the company in the mail. Players in Japan may copy the data to an SD card or send the entire Wii to the following address:

 

Nintendo Service Center "Metroid Other M" Dept

56 Kaguraden Ogura-cho

Uji, Kyoto 611-0042

Japan

 

Obviously this is not a convenient solution for players who live outside Japan, but as of this writing no official response has been posted to the game's English website, metroid.com. However, even in Japan players seem irritated by this mail-in option, complaining on Hachimaki that an online system with a hard drive could simply receive a patch.

 

Update: Nintendo of America has posted a support page for North American users experiencing this problem. The page makes no mention of mailing in your Wii consoles, but does offer a phone number to arrange sending in an SD card "or other options." That number is 1-800-255-3700.

 

http://www.1up.com/news/game-breaking-metr...ledged-nintendo

 

Yes you read that right children, in the day of the internet with day one patches and DLC, Nintendo opt for teh tired and true, snail mail.

 

EPIC FAIL!!!

[PurpleGaga27 40]

Next epic fail for Nintendo, Goldeneye 007 on Nintendo Wii with no high-definition graphics, possible bug glitches and the difficulty of wireless control functionality during gameplay.

 

Goldeneye 007 should have and would have gone more advanced to other consoles other than Nintendo (to make more sales of course).

Edited October 11, 2010 by purplescrin

[Doctor Destiny 41]

You make it sound like no other game has had a game-breaker glitch. At least Other M was good, unlike most of the trash released these days.

 

Looks like purplescrin is jealous of Nintendo's awesomeness. That's right bitches. We have the really good FPS.

[Inferno 22]

Noone is questioning Nintendo's awesomeness here, but fixing a gamebreaking glitch like this is pretty goddamn amateuristic.

[Nmenth 291]

But when you're number 1, you can say 'dance little monkeys!' and the little monkeys will dance, even if they grumble while doing so.

[PurpleGaga27 40]

Nintendo's technology is several steps behind from what Xbox360 and PS3 have. It still lacks a hard drive (other than 512MB internal flash memory) that could simply receive a patch online to some bugged games. Also the console isn't 64-bit, which means the graphics might be on par with the original Xbox.

 

Yes, what Luk3us said, Nintendo still sucks.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

So? Do graphics make games better? No, they do not so your point is entirely useless.

[Gben 20]

Someone should send Nintendo a 33.6 kbit/s modem and introduce them to the internet.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

That would have been funnier if the Wii didn't already offer Internet through it and didn't allow you to stream Netflix as well.

[Inferno 22]

Nintendo's technology is several steps behind from what Xbox360 and PS3 have. It still lacks a hard drive (other than 512MB internal flash memory) that could simply receive a patch online to some bugged games. Also the console isn't 64-bit, which means the graphics might be on par with the original Xbox.

 

Yes, what Luk3us said, Nintendo still sucks.

Except the Wii sold almost as much as the PS3 and the XBOX 360 combined. Guess how that happened.

[PurpleGaga27 40]

Except the Wii sold almost as much as the PS3 and the XBOX 360 combined. Guess how that happened.

 

Wii is small, light, and energy-efficient. The use of wireless controls with the sensor feeling to the screen is probably the best feature in Wii.

[Inferno 22]

Wii is small, light, and energy-efficient.

I doubt people buy a console just for this.

 

The use of wireless controls with the sensor feeling to the screen is probably the best feature in Wii.

Bingo. It doesn't have to be high-end to be attractive and fun.

 

 

Besides technical features, it's quite apparent that Wii has also had a much, much more effective marketing campaign.

Edited October 12, 2010 by Inferno

[Luk3us 63]

Except the Wii sold almost as much as the PS3 and the XBOX 360 combined. Guess how that happened.

 

Stupid people are easily manipulated into buy junk, that is how.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

You're jealous.

[Chronojam 3]

The number one problem with the model they used with the Wii is the lack of any kind of resident operating system or unified, on-board drivers. The home menu practically has to be hand-built for each game, any SD card access has to be built into each game, and what we all know as "programmable shader" effects need to be hand-built for each game because the system itself does not support programmable shaders.

 

Despite still being the easiest and cheapest console to develop for, this means there is still irritating overhead as a developer (although many companies now have their own homegrow engine solutions, such as what you see with Nintendo's own engine for Mario Galaxy and the engine the Conduit guys have put together, plus what CAPCOM has for the Resident Evil series). Nintendo also de-emphasized on board storage, not expecting the outcry for downloadable content.

 

The end result is that each game, once put to market, is essentially final. When people (rightly so) whined about lack of on-board storage, a patch went out to allow SDHC cards to be used as the transition from SD to SDHC is as simple as a driver upgrade; this let you store games to expanded removable memory, sure, but only from the Wii's own internal channels. Compiled games have no solution, no upgrade path; old Rock Band games cannot suddenly take advantage of SDHC and cannot see the expanded memory for their DLC. And there is no way to really fix that. The internet settings are also buried pretty deeply, and require a wifi connection or a no-longer-available ethernet dongle.

 

Some developers have sidestepped unpatchability by making their games 'thinner clients' for online play especially. Rather than handling many variables client side (where it is nearly impossible to make changes), a lot of the computation and decisionmaking is done serverside where variables can be tweaked and broadcast back to clients.

 

A lot of these shortcomings are also why homebrew is so prevalent. However, through homebrew, modders get access to lower-level resources and actually can create and share common code and utilities, which lets you do great stuff like directly run DVDs off the Wii's DVD drive (for which no software is on board naturally) or run DOS or whatever else you'd want. A common use for homebrew is to rip your games to a USB-connected hard drive, then play the games directly off that for speed and convenience. You also could not transfer particular on-board data, such as several games' save data or gamecube save data, without homebrew tools.

 

Essentially, the Wii itself is not that bad off, but shortsighted design decisions and policy have crippled it in a lot of ways that didn't need to be. For the 3DS they've already shaped up. You can transfer purchased DLC, passively connect to wireless networks without going through a (built into each game!) configuration, store games and active application daemons on the 3DS itself directly... they're pretty much figured **** out it seems.

 

I've got a Wii and use it to play Wii games, because nearly every console game I'd want to get is also out for the PC in better form. I can't imagine playing Fallout or TF2 on a console. My only concern was missing MGS4 but I heard it wasn't that great anyways, MINDBLOWING HD GRAPHICS aside.

[Doctor Destiny 41]

^ That.

[Gben 20]

DD - I only have one console and it's a WII, and I love it... but yeah Nintendo went two steps forward with the motion controllers and one step backward with the internet and hard drive.

Still I guess casual gamers don't even understand what's wrong and sales figures aren't too shabby.