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BengaBenga on 21 July 2008
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Squilliam said:

Another thing that people forget is that when your software team can release a mainstream title and make twice as much there is far less incentive to make any title that caters to the much smaller core market.

Nintendo themselves for their 1st party releases probaby is going to focus 60/40 or 70/30 of their efforts to Mainstream/Core which doesn't give the Core market much when you consider that titles for those genres can much longer to develop.

 

That's a ridiculous statement.

First of all: Mainstream titles? Almost all Nintendo games are mainstream titles. Mario, Smash Bros, Kart all sold in the several millions. That's mainstream as hell. Zelda is pretty mainstream as well. So yeah, Nintendo will keep making mainstream titles, although not in the way you see it.

You clearly still believe in the non-games fable. What non-games have Nintendo given us? I'd say that WiiPlay is the only one so far that you could call that, but it's $10. I think WiiMusic might come very close. Saying WiiSports and WiiFit are not games is stupid. These are revolutions in videogaming, whether you like it or not. MotionPlus be as well. So that's two games in two years. In the same period we've seen a lot of games that also appeal to the core:

Galaxy, Brawl, Zelda, Kart, Fire Emblem, Batallion Wars, Paper Mario, Metroid. That's quite a list there. Mind you that's in only 18 months.
And coming: Fatal Frame 4 (hey, that's a Nintendo franchise now, Nintendo sure doesn't care about the core anymore), Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Disaster, Kid Icarus.

Nintendo knows their main income are the Nintendo games. Sure a "casual" title once a year will be there, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't hurt core game development at all.