Nintendo: "We aren't competing with Sony or Microsoft"

[Rhonin the wizard]

theprof00 said:

Rhonin the wizard said:

@theprof00

You asked to what gamers has Nintendo been catering for the past year, for me the last year is 2008. I gave a list of all the games published by Nintendo in 2008, I didn't leave out titles. If you ask me, I think they have been catering to just about everybody, they have games for new gamers(Wii Fit, Wii Music), game for their long time fans (Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario Super Sluggers, Wario Land: Shake It!, Animal Crossing: City Folk), games for people that might have stopped gaming and want to play games they have missed(GC games and VC games), games for those that want something new(Endless Ocean, Captain Rainbow, Art Style series), and this is without taking the DS in consideration, Also, you brought up sales for no reason. As bdbdbd said you are moving the goal post.

I think the crux of your argument (which, if I can assume that you are taking a position against mine) is that bolded snippet.
However, you change the viewpoint with that wording "long time fans". Long time fans =/= core gamers, but by wording it that way you can include 2 casual games into a category that was supposed to be defined as gamer's games and make it look better than it really is.

(I played Bubsy back in the day, does that make bubsy a gamer's game? No, it was a horrible game)

As for the other two games in that list SSBB is ten months old and Shake-it is probably the only game that I can agree with you is a gamer's game, but not by much. To me Wii fit, music, sluggers, Animal crossing, vc games, ocean, rainbow, art style, are all meant to be interesting to people who don't play video games.

Quick summary: I haven't seen anything SSBB calibur in ten months with the exception of shake it and maybe MaBoShi.

 But then again this isn't going to go anywhere because it is my opinion. However, the fact that you are (even if unconsciously) twisting the wording around is showing that you have something to prove, and makes me think that my argument does have some grounding.

To me Nintendo's core gamers are their long time fans, and I thought 'long time fans' sounded better than 'core gamers' and I didn't want repeat the word 'gamers' so many times. And if Mario Super Sluggers and Animal Crossing: City Folk are for casual gamers, to whom did their predecessors sell on the GameCube? Also, what is a gamer's game?

And do you even have a Wii?