RolStoppable said:
Legend11 said:
RolStoppable said:
So a lot of today's hardcore gamers are children, because they play a lot of videogames. Since the Wii is the kiddy system, it has currently the highest number of hardcore gamers. Okay.
PM:CE and GL are following the trajectory of the industry with improved graphics, better sound and more sophistication. Mega Man 9 has 8-Bit graphics, 8-Bit sound and removed some of Mega Man's abilities from later games.
How can you know that the article is ridiculous, if you didn't read the article which you just admitted in the second paragraph of your post? You are insulting someone based on (wrong) assumptions.
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Yes, a part of the hardcore includes children. The Gamecube despite having a kiddy image still had many hardcore gamers. The Wii is different than the Gamecube in that a significant part of the audience fueling it's growth and many of the games beings made for it are casuals.
Casuals are the people who don't live for videogames or spend a significant amount of time on them. They're the people you will never find on forums like these for example. They are the ones that don't buy videogame magazines or go on videogame websites or have a significant gaming online presence. They buy a Wii for Wii Sports because they heard about if from a friend or seen it on Oprah or saw it at a party or whatever but at the end of the day they're just casually into gaming.
As for how I know his article is ridiculous it's because there are examples that go against what he's trying to claim. Take PM:CE for example, PM:Legends is an example of the game following the trajectory of the industry. PM:CE is a game that could have easily been made for older consoles and still looked and played the exact same. This isn't a slight against PM:CE since it's an incredible game but it's still not following the trajectory of the industy (production costs increasing each generation, etc).
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You have sunken really low if you have to defend the Gamecube in order to strengthen your argument.
*EDIT: If the Wii is mostly selling to casuals, why is its attach rate slightly higher than the PS3's? Does that mean that casuals buy just as many games as hardcore gamers or how else do you explain this? END EDIT*
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/p/pacmanchampionshipeditionxboxlivearcade/
High definition graphics, better sound, more sophistication: new game modes, achievements. PM:CE has everything that follows the trajectory of the industry.
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Xbox Live does exactly same thing the new Mega Man 9 does, which is to bring back classic gaming to the masses. Despite launching in 2004 it hasn't changed the industry so it's nonsense to conclude that Mega Man 9 will.
Checkmate.
