Nintendo Refuses to Fix Third Party Software Issues from Wii Update
By Andrew on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 at 12:29 PM PST In Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Nintendo
If you were looking to Nintendo to recognize their third-party products, you should give up hope. Their firmware update is here to stay, and they only look out for “official” Wii products.
Yesterday, Shawn posted about how the update nixed modded Wiis, leaving some of you out there some very Saaaaad Pandas. Unfortunately, according to gamesindustry.biz, Nintendo isn’t doing anything about it.
The biggest issue for people, it seems, was being able to use the Freeloader software to play import GameCube games on the Wii. Now, it looks like they’ll have to either dig out their old systems or buy a used one, which you can get from eBay for about thirty bucks.
For all Nintendo’s glory about innovative gameplay, they’re lame about backward compatibility. Could it be that they were pissed they were missing out on a whole market of unspent Wiipoints?
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