How many 360/Wii owners would sell their Wii if Newton was released?

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Khuutra said:

Killergran said:

Khuutra said:
Some part of me is curious: the new Nintendo philosophy applied to one of the "core" franchises like Mario or Zelda has the potential for much higher sales... and a completely different kind of quality.

It's kind of exciting.

I'm not so excited about that.

The old philosophy doesn't really mix all that well with the new, in my experience. It's not that they go bad together as much as the fact that they cannot be properly combined. They're sort of like opposites.

I could be wrong about this, ofc. Just because noone has been successful with it so far doesn't mean that they won't hit the nail on the head sometime in the future.

Well... what are your experiences, exactly? Nintendo hasn't tried to mix the new philosophy in with core titles except for New Super Mario Bros. and Phantom Hourglass, chiefly.

I think his point is that Nintendo's new philosophy and the traditional core philosophy are so different that they are incompatible.

To mix the two together can only result in meeting halfway. It's a neither nor situation that does neither approach justice.

But what I think you are saying is that Nintendo will in future use their old franchises to front new games based on the new philosophy, which is an exciting possibility.

They will be a complete departure from previous games in their respective franchises to the extent that they will be almost foreign to core audiences.

Nintendo's new philosophy is about new experiences. It's about challenging the very definition of what constitutes a videogame and pushing boundaries.

That so many haters try to discredit games like Wii Fit and Wii Music as non-games is testament to this very fact.