Worst thing a game Company has ever done?

Atari 5200 has backwards compatibility. It requires an Atari VCS Cartridge Adapter though.

 

Also the VC policies they're doing. No cross buy for NES games (if I want something on my 3DS and WiiU I have to pay twice). No SNES/Genesis/Turbo/etc games on the 3DS is really annoying.

 

Atari:deciding to ax the Panther in favor of the Jaguar just so they could "put themselves ahead of the competition" even though the Jaguar had almost the same graphical capabilities of the SNES,Mega Drive,and 3DO,the endless delays that instantly dated the 7800 when it came out,the 5200 not having out of the box 2600 backwards compatibility,suing Activision just so they could police what games were and weren't released
Sega:Anything Sonic related made in the past 5 years,them bum rushing the launch of the Saturn just so they could have it out before the PS1 and N64,then cancelling Sonic Xtreme in favor of a crappy port of Sonic 3D Blast,them scrapping their other franchises just to make more shitty Sonic games
Microsoft:the whole DRM debacle,scrapping their flagship franchises in favor of more Halo games,their TERRIBLE Japanese launch history,screwing the pooch on having MGS and Resident Evil on the original Xbox,not having FM5 on the X360 just because it wouldn't look as good as the Xbone version
Sony:them not alerting people that their PSN accounts were hacked until 2 weeks after the fact,the pay to play online bullshit on the PS4,screwing people over that preordered DriveClub,the almost comically high PS3 launch prices,barely taking advantage of the PS2s HDD capabilities in the USA,them abandoning the PS Vita after not even 2 years on the market,the notoriously difficult developability of the PS3,them not giving a shit about their mascots (noticing a theme here),them refusing to fix exploits in PSN and PS+,The PS4s crappy durability on launch vs their competitors,the shitty PSN account region locking despite the fact their console is basically region free,

 

Nintendo sold them to Microsoft if I'm not mistaken. Nintendo always has owned them they were just "trimming fat" within their developer divisions at the time and thought they had to go. Big mistake in my eyes I could argue that Nintendo's sales have suffered since. Rare had so many unique great titles on the N64 it has always made me wonder what could have been on the Gamecube and so forth. Not to mention since being sold to Microsoft Rare hasn't been the same themselves and a lot of their brilliant characters haven't been put to good use either.

 

Yes, but it is a huge, expensive, high-profile and expensive addon!

 

My understanding is that Nintendo had a 49% stake (the rest owned by the Stamper brothers) but Microsoft bought the 51% Stamper share. Nintendo then decided to sell their 49% share.

 

So a little bit of both then. Understandable that Nintendo would dump their 49%.

 

When Microsoft bought Rare, ohh that Banjo Kazooie game on 360 was terrible..
The Perfect Dark 2 game, was horrible as well.
Also not a huge fan, of the whole "game companys going mobile" thing..
(Sega, Konami) etc

 

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Have you ever even played Perfect Dark Zero?

 

Yes, I got it in the collection.
Maybe it's because I grew up with original, and never really settled with playing Perfect Dark on a different console etc. I just noticed that it got a great review, maybe I should give it a try some time again soon actually

 

It's really not as bad as some people seem to think. Yes it had way too much to live up to (being the next Perfect Dark game and being Microsoft's launch FPS game is something almost no game could accomplish), but it's a pretty decent game.

 

Do you happen to own the original? I'm wondering if they changed anything at all, but I doubt it.

You're being generous. The AI was dumb, the voice acting was laughable, the game felt floaty and I didn't care for the level design. While it's not unplayable or on "bad game" level, it was still painfully generic. Although I will say it looked very good and games with a 5 year development cycle and onward tend to be a lot worse.

 

Can't say if I have a edited version or not, I just have the standard PAL version I suppose?

 

No one is going to mention Konami going full mobile? You never go full mobile...

 

Haha we agree on that one
I actually mentioned it above!

 

Ah, must have missed it.

 

That's technically not true, because MGS2: Substance was released for Xbox.

 

For me, Nintendo moving end of life games to the new hardware or just cancelling games when they are basically complete. A nice FU to their customers.

 

It is a perfectly standard SATA drive, and the incompatibility is something that has been deliberately engineered by MS. What they do is take some of the information from the drive's IDENTIFY command and then save it on a defined sector of the drive - they also compute a hash across it, and sign that hash with their private key. The way the hack works is to change the identify strings (and the last LBA of the drive) to the values that match the ones in the correctly signed security sector that was read off an official MS drive. Yes, this means that all the HDD hacked drives have the same serial number, but MS haven't banned them because people might have just bought them without knowing they were hacked.

 

Konami in general

Or maybe Playstation's idea to stop selling PS3 Super-Slim hdd brackets. Do you not want my money?