| You know, I've realized something upon reading each and everybody's posts in an attempt at forming a rebutal. We as hardcore gamers, are terribly selfish.
We criticize Nintendo for making a controller that resembles a TV remote. We also criticize them for making future games that are "gimmicky" and/or will suck because of it. We praticially criticize them for any move that's different and within 10 seconds immeditately decide the fate of the company. I don't however, believe we reserve the right to criticize it's gameplay mechanics and such before we sit down and get a chance to play it The Wii and the DS, although similar are very different. Comparing apples to oranges is not a good way to gain an accurate assessment.
Ninty knows what they're doing. They reinvented the video game biz two decades ago and it seems like they're wanting to go for seconds. I also believe I heard someone a page ago mention something about alienating the hardcore audience to get to the non-gamer audience. This is simply not true. What Nintendo is trying to do is implement an attempt of both strategies. That is, trying to satisfy the hardcore audience while attempt to reach out to those who have never played.
Look at Super Mario Galaxy. Here's a game we can all expect to buy. But here's where Nintendo's little trojan horse is deployed. Say a parent buys his or her kid a Wii system and in short months, buys SMG. Lets say by chance that the parent walks in and sees his or her kid having a blast with the game and immediately is intrigued by the system's simplicty at controlling Mario. Say what you want about this example, but somewhere its going to happen. Like I said earlier, Ninty knows what their doing. They're reaching out for the non-gamers (Say, Wii Sports for an example) while satisfying the hardcore as well. (Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a perfect example!) |