Wii Sports Resort, casual / core satisfaction

[mike_intellivision]

KylieDog said:

NJ5 said:

KylieDog said:
I fail to see anything in WSR that appeals to the core crowed. Sorry but Miis with sticks sword fighting doesn't.

Swap Miis for..I dunno, Jedi? Swap sticks with lightsabers? Then it might appeal to more.

So the core crowd is really the shallow one? hehe

The sword fighting has a lot of potential, here's hoping it works well and feels good... I think it will be weird at the beginning since we're used to behave like true Ninjas in games, whereas now we'll just be our clumsy selves actually learning how to use a sword.

 

 

Generally (so people don't pick out single examples to try and kill this claim) yes, I'm willing to bet a larger chunk of the casual crowd are either quite old, or quite young. They aren't likely to care about Miis looks, or the fact they are using sticks.

 

The core crowed tend to be in the middle of those ages, and demand more since they know better. It is like "Yeah, The Terminator is a great film, but if you dress it up like a saturday morning kids cartoon, I'm not gonna watch it."

 

I don't mean to sound condescending to explain that to anyone reading it and not understanding, but I mean it don't matter how well a game plays, dressing it up like a kids game can be very patronising to some people.

 

No -- this is two people with sticks: http://www.atariage.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=21_85_47&products_id=151

And the part I bolded may show the difference between a mature gamer and another gamer. To a mature gamer, gameplay trumps graphics. To someone else, the opposite is true.

Basically, if the games are solid, the software will sell -- if for no other reason that it will probably be the easiest way to get that first WMP unit.

But it will not be critically well-received because those who make those determinations tend to think in a way where they judge a book by its cover rather than its contents.

Mike from Morgantown