Has Nintendo Lost the Hardcore Gamer? article by IGN

[MaxwellGT2000]

Resident_Hazard said:

yushire said:

http://wii.ign.com/articles/933/933583p1.html

Seem IGN definitely have a huge meltdown here. Anyway I have a different opinion about this and it involves disruption but still a interesting read notheless.

LOL I wonder if IGN seen the NPD next week XD

 

 

 

Dammit, did you even read the article you posted? It's an editorial, and it ends on a positve note.  IGN doesn't have a huge meltdown or anything like that.  It's about how they understand the dissent being felt by a lot of Wii gamers right now.  It ends with a very positive look to 2009.  I think you formulated your opinion based on the title of the article.  Judging a book by it's cover, so to speak.  The article references Wii sales and NPD, and makes valid points on them.

 

Honestly, the current drought has two major causes, both oversights by Nintendo:

 

1.  Nintendo was over-confident in how many 3rd party devs/publishers would step up and fill the void they left.  In large part, it's because the Wii is still considered "underpowered," and in large part because Nintendo didn't do enough to encourage 3rd party companies to jump on-board.  Nintendo should have catered more to their needs and needs to step up support for them, including broad advertising for the Wii that shows off a variety of available 1st, 2nd and 3rd party titles.

2.  Nintendo's faith in their own franchises was misguided.  They felt that Animal Crossing, Wii Music, and Wario Land would be enough to satisfy gamers this holiday.  Unfortunatly, Wii Music is overly shallow and Animal Crossing wasn't improved enough to appeal to core gamers.  I think Nintendo also may have, more secretly, misjudged how long it would take for them to craft more 1st party, more highly polished core gamaes--games like Punch-Out, StarFox, Pikmin, and the like.  Obviously, the next Mario and Zelda are still a long ways off, but Nintendo has other games up their sleeves that they're working on internally, and they just aren't ready yet.

 

At Bold: THis is Yushire you're talking about, you know the guy that is bitching about "there's no games on Wii" of course he would think it's a meltdown editorial though I would say one that never needed to be made cause Matt does editorials like this to get companies on their toes just like he made one for voice chat on Wii (though that was a needed one) this one wasn't needed cause I'm sorry but Nintendo has put out more AAA titles in past years and one season isn't going to kill anyone, I mean he even talks about 2009 being great and really it isn't that far off...