"The Great Hardcore Lie Exposed: Wii Did Not Lose Core Gamers"

[oniyide]

I read it, but ill read it again when i have more time. THe problem I see of the bat, is that it only talks about FIRST party games, which is very limiting, fact is Ninty made the same games they always made with WIi but added more, like your WIiSPorts. Speaking of which, I cant see how myth 3 is wrong, fact of the matter is those non core games DID the best, period. Thats not to say that the core offerings, Nintys games, did bad, they just didnt do was good. Again he ignores 3rd party core games which didnt do anywhere near as good as surprise, the more casual fare like JD, Zumba Carnival games and the like, cant see how someone could look at those number and not say it was more popular with the casuals. 3rd and 1st party casual games did better. Thats not to mention that 3rd party multiplat games were more popular on the other two.

Speaking of other two, Wii doesnt exist in a vacuum, why ignore their impact on WIi.

Myth 2, I sorta agree with, however. I will say, they definately left as time went on or they got another system, again looking at the sales for multiplat core games from the start you can see the numbers go down for WIi while the numbers got bigger for 360 and PS3 in particular, there was a time when Wii version would at least beat the PS3 version but that was years ago, despite the WIi having a much bigger install base.

Myth 1 Wii offered alot of core titles, BUT were any of them worth a damn? Thats the big question. IMHO the competition for the most part offered better alternatives to the Wii's core games or something similar, but mostly better. Again, just look at sales data.

The article is flawed becaue it ignores 3rd party games for the most part. YOu cant do that, 3rd party makes up generally 90% of any systems library. That is a large part to ignore.