Ridiculous Wii Design Decision #800
December 29th, 2007I’d stop complaining about terrible Wii design decisions, but they just keep popping up. My girlfriend got Elebits, one of her favorite Wii games, for the holidays, and spent quite some time playing around with it on my brother’s console. No worries, we figure - we can just copy the save files onto our SD card and continue the game at home. Lo and behold: for some insane and inexplicable reason, Elebits save files can’t be copied to an SD card! For what possible reason? Who knows! I understand that random VC games have similar problems. Ridiculous.
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December 29th, 2007 at 9:37 am
I agree, this is simply retarded, however, its a publisher decision and varies game by game. It was the same way on the cube. Some games would not allow you to copy the data (medal of honor frontline for example, fucking bastards!). Its not Nintendos decision though and has nothing to do with the design of the wii.
December 29th, 2007 at 10:18 am
Well, they could easily have made it a certification requirement for Wii games. What confuses me, though, is why a developer would choose to make that decision. It’s not like the 360 where it would allow people to cheese on Achievements. (Of course, even that wouldn’t be an issue if so many companies didn’t make horrid Achievements like “Finish the game on Easy/Normal/Hard” and “Complete the tutorial.”)
December 29th, 2007 at 10:32 am
“Well, they could easily have made it a certification requirement for Wii games.”
Sure, but giving the publishers some control over their content isn’t a stretch. I’m sure it was part of Nintendos efforts to appease 3rd parties, not to mention consistancy with gamecube development seeing as they clearly wanted to keep it as similar as possible on Wii.
“What confuses me, though, is why a developer would choose to make that decision.”
Me too. I can’t see the reasoning, but I’m sure in their twisted mind, there IS a reason.
December 29th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
“Me too. I can’t see the reasoning, but I’m sure in their twisted mind, there IS a reason.”
Just pure evil, I’m afraid…