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Rainbird on 28 December 2008
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Grampy said:

 

4.     The Wii became a clown at a grown-ups party, because it wasn't trying to fit into the party, but bring new people to the party.
Once again, we find that we have some secret bar to reach, some litmus test to pass. “They are “grown-ups” and we are “clowns” and worse yet, we actually invited “outsiders” to this “private grown up party.” Wow, I just wish they had given us the paper work when we plunked our money down so we could have applied or pledged or whatever it is one does. Does this mean I don’t get to learn the secret handshake?

 

Oh... my... god...

It seems the error is on me, I should have chosen an analogy that wasn't so hard to understand! Or maybe you didn't read my last post?

Rainbird said:

Okay, that is just stupid. You know what the Wii isn't either? A medicament. It is just an analogy.

It is not MY PARTY. But if you owned a console in the last generation, you owned a console that had plenty of games to offer for the hardcore gamers. That was how the "party" was, the only move towards a broader audience came with games like Singstar. Then the Wii comes along and opens up the party to a lot more people, people who previosly had no interest in joining the party.

See where my analogy is going?

Just to flesh it out a bit more then. This "party" is accesable once you have a gaming platform. There is no secret bar or anything more exclusive than the fact that you cannot play these games, if you do not own a platform they will play on. That is the "exclusivity". You can invite your friends or your family in for a while if you like.

If you bought either a PS2, Xbox, GameCube, Xbox 360 or a PS3, chances are you wanted to play a "hardcore" game. This is the party. The people who bought one of these platforms. Then comes the Wii. Buying a Wii gives you a ticket to this party, but instead of promising "hardcore" games, we are promised games like Wii Sports. This appeals to a whole new demographic compared to the other platforms, meaning that a new kind of people are invited into the "party". I never said the Wii users were clowns, I said the Wii was, compared to the other platforms. And clowns attract different people compared to things like somebody reading the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy aloud. (Another analogy, hope you can follow here)

Can... I... be... any... clearer?