BoleroOfFire said:
misterd said:
I'm 38. I suspect if you really did cut your teeth on games like Galaxian and Defender, you wouldn't have one issue with the graphics of the Wii. While not on PS360 levels, they are likely far and away beyond what you ever thought you'd see on a home console, and surely your heritage would have taught you how game play is superior to image (or did you play Vanguard for the story?)
As for the Wii, it sells because it is simple and fun. The controls are intuitive. Think about all the breakout games in the past - usually little more than a joystick and one or two buttons. There's a reason Defender never became a cultural phenomenon like Donkey Kong, and the only game that garnered broad appeal among females was PacMan, which just had a joy stick (or it could be that it was about eating, and according to some surveys, many women prefer food to sex...).
"Core" gamers are comfortable with complex controls, and often get off on the sweatly palms and pulse pounding finger twitching of titles like Halo, but true hardcore gamers are a minorityof the gamers, and gamers of any stripe were a minority of the broad population.
Nintendo set out with the intent to make everyone, especially women, gamers, while Sony and MS chose to chase after the same crowd that has been playing games for the past 30 years. |
I resent that! Why can't we have both? At once? 
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My friend George Costanza tried this, and it doesn't work... Food or sex, you have to chose. Believe me, it wasn't pretty!
