LittleBigPlanet vs. Wii Music: Battle of the Casuals

[Paul_Warren]

I just noticed something that I think is of concern at least to me. When I was looking up sales numbers for Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii a second ago, and saw that their numbers were close to 8 million; I also decided for some reason to check and see what the sales numbers were for The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess. It turns out that both Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii both awful games in comparison to The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess have sold more copies than not only Twilight Princess, but more or as many as any other Zelda game including The Ocarina of Time.

Now this is something that should not be right. And I think it is of definite concern to those that do like Nintendo's real games and wish they would get back to making them and a real game console as well to go along with them. If these pieces of pablum like Wii Fit and a weak version of Mario Kart are selling so well for Nintendo that they are eclipsing sales for the high quality games that the company has actually made in the past this is going to lead to Nintendo bringing more bad product to the market simply because it sales well instead of concentrating on delivering great games.

This type of thinking could explain why Nintendo had such a weak showing at E3 this year and instead why it was almost the opposite of what most of their core fans wanted to see and were led up to believe that they would see with the press announecement made a couple of weeks before E3 that Nintendo would be highlighting games for their core fans at the E3 Conference.

I remember telling people following that announcement that it probably just meant a new Pokemon for the DS and they scoffed at me saying there would be a new Zelda and all sorts of great new "core" product unveiled at E3. And what did it turn out to be. A new Pokemon and GTA for the DS while the rest was very uncore stuff like Wii Music and Wii Sports Resort.

 

     If there is a silver lining, I guess that it is that the DS does get support from Square and technical limitations aside it is a system for core gamers.  Much more so than the Wii currently is and will be if it continues on its present course anyway.