On The Verge of A Gaming Crash? Without Nintendo....

[Millennium]

psrock said:
If the solution is so easy, why haven't they switch yet?

Three reasons.

One: Time. Good games tend to take a long time to make; two years or more in some cases. The Wii only just passed the two-year mark, and companies really only started to give it much of a look six months to a year after its release.

Two: Model. Developers have gotten far too used to graphics-are-everything over the past two generations, and you Just Can't Do That on the Wii. It will take time for them to relearn the models under which the best games of all time were made (and some of the worst, too), and the Wii is built to require models like that.

Three: Marketing. Adolescent males pushed everyone else out of gaming a decade ago. Now everyone else is coming back, but companies have forgotten how to market to them, because they simply haven't had to.

Really, it's all about relearning how games were made in the golden age. With that knowledge in hand, though, the gameplay renaissance is set to dawn. It's a good time to be a gamer.