by Filippo DinolfoOn this episode of the show: Yu Suzuki clarifies Shenmue’s funding, WB pulls the PC version of Arkham Knight, and Nintendo supports same sex partnerships. Plus a great discussion on backwards compatibility.
6/28/2015 Show Notes – Nintendo Gonna Nintendo
- Note: You’ll find us shifting more toward discussion topics than news over the Summer.
- What are we playing?
- Patrick: Project CARS, Eastside Hockey Manager, something I can’t talk about.
- Filippo: King Oddball, Forza 5
- Leigh: Batman: Arkham Knight
- WB suspends Steam sales of Arkham Knight
- DualShockers brings a great PS4 backward compatibility piece, nearly finds a solution…
- Reasons BC is difficult/contentious…
- Costs of emulation development may outweigh benefits of implementation
- Legacy hardware still at retail needs to be sold through to the consumer
- BC matters because gamers’ investments in entire generations need protection.
- As systems get littered with moving parts, long-term failure is inevitable.
- Solution: Keep BC a generation behind if need be.
- For example, PS3 hardware isn’t just going to mass-fail during eighth gen.
- PS5 should be able to “brute force” emulate PS3 despite Cell architecture.
- Just as PS4 should be able to with PS2 despite Emotion Engine.
- And Xbox One to legacy Xbox…
- Just as PS4 should be able to with PS2 despite Emotion Engine.
- Reasons BC is difficult/contentious…
- Doom 4 was scrapped because it was turning into “Call of Duty with a Doom skin”
- Dragon Quest VI comes to iOS and Android
- Inafune still wants to make Mega Man Legends 3
- Does this mean he and Takeuchi are ready to bury the hatchet, though?
- Yu Suzuki clarifies Shenmue III’s funding situation
- Nintendo confirms Starfox Zero gyro controls as simply an option
- Nintendo confirms marriage equality in Fire Emblem Fates…
- Fitting story this week, though it was on the list days before the SCOTUS ruling.
- …and along with it, that damnable two-version format from Japan.
- Patrick: So they’re doomed to be known as “yaoi version” and “yuri version”, yes?
- This probably has more to do with Tomodachi Life than Fire Emblem Awakening.
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