| fastyxx said:
That's probably the most insightful comment in the thread. Good point. But I would argue that there are a LOT of Wii Sports/Wii Play -only consoles out there, and that it really isn't THAT much different. I do really like your point, though.
The reason I think those people that only play Wii Sports/Play/Fit are bad for gamers though is because it's undeniable that developers are putting teams on games that chase that audience rather than making the next great 3rd party gamer's game. One of my best friends went to work for E.A. a decade ago hoping to make hardcore games. He's been stuck making outfits for Sims for about six years now. It happens. |
That is a false dichotomy. You assume that games will either appeal to the Wii Sports/Play crowd, or the Gamer crowd and never both. Fact of the matter is must gamers don't like the Gamer's games. Notice how no game released in at least the last 3 generatiosn has hit a 50% attach rate? It turns out gamers have an extremely diverse taste as a group. All this does is throw in another genre that needs to be catered to while not harming any other genre at all. The rise of the FPS did not kill the RPG. The rise of the fighter did not kill the platformer. The rise of "casual" games will not kill any other genre, let alone all of them at once.
