What Nintendo's Rift with the Hardcore Means for the Industry

[madkiller]

Sqrl said:

madkiller said:
I am sorry, but I agree with this article 100%. This is not targetted at you teenagers that have no real experience with Nintendo or games in general. This is aimed at the gamers like me that are late 20s, early 30s and have owned EVERY Nintendo system ever released. I just got done trading in my Wii with a huge game and accessory collection to purchase the PS3 MGS4 bundle. I have used my PS3 more in a month than I did my Wii in a year. I had every major game on the Wii and was bored with all of them after 1-2 hours.

There are exactly 0 real hardcore games on the Wii. SMG, Zelda, Metroid, etc are all too easy and casual friendly now to be considered hardcore. I have owned every system in this generation and actually almost every system ever released in the U.S.. The only systems I have not owned are Neo Geo and the 3D0 due to the outrageous price on them. I am now done with Nintendo for good. I have been a Nintendo fan and supporter for their entire history, but they have now gone too far with this casual crap. Wii Music is a complete joke and I will have no part of their crap anymore. I will get everything I want and more from having both the 360 and PS3. The Wii is a child's and non-gamers toy and those so-called core games you people are talking about are NOT core games at all. The problem is there are too many teenagers that wouldn't know a core game if it bit them on the ass that are still praising Nintendo on these forums.

The real gamers are playing the PS3 and 360...

 

This is what I took away from your post:

After playing the PS3 games for more than an hour or two (something I didn't do on the Wii but I will claim to know how good/difficult the games are anyways) I decided these games are undeniably better and that anyone who doesn't think so must not be a gamer.

I really want you to believe I've been hurt emotionally and that Nintendo is a horrible company for inflicting this pain.

Games that I don't like being released on the console I own makes me feel insecure, I need to own a console that makes me feel special and pretty.

I don't like the games on the Wii therefore everyone who does is not a real gamer.

 

When you calm down and are done with the high dramatics you should try to remember that there are thousands of satisfied core gamers who visit this site who support Nintendo and don't feel the way you do. These people, who you insult when you claim that they aren't "real gamers" would appreciate it if you bring the rhetoric down to a level where a discussion can be had, something that cannot happen so long as people feel that their opinions should be seen as fact.

Everything you said basically makes no sense, but you need al realize that there are thousands of gamers that are unhappy with Nintendo as well. All of you people supporting Nintendo still thinks that there is nobody unhappy with them at all and that they have done nothing wrong ever. You people all think that you are right and everyone else is wrong just because they don't agree with you about Nintendo.