id Boss: 3rd-Party Wii Development "Not Really Justified"

[mike_intellivision]

WereKitten said:

mike_intellivision said:

WereKitten said:

I dissent. Graphical improvement did not grant success to GC and Xbox over the PS2. The only shift the Wii made was in market focus: they went for the untapped market of the audience that found games not accessible enough and overly complex.

This changed nothing for the traditional gamers, including the Nintendo core. And it's not a paradigm shift.

 

This was a generational statement -- not necessarily a statement about the market leader. Each generation has made graphical strides in all the consoles.

And you are right, Nintendo went for something different and has moved the industry in a different direction. By definition, that is a PARADIGM shift.

 

Mike from Morgantown

 

Again, no. Please look up the term. Innovative and lateral thinking applied to business decisions, maybe.

And how has the industry at large moved, exactly? Party games and shovelware existed on the PS2. Casual gaming existed yet in the form of singing games and quizzes and kid games.

Has the industry moved in a different direction because now the collections of minigames are played with a wiimote? The family friendly/party games are simply more under the spotlight because they are central in the Wii marketing strategy, instead of being a wealthy sideplate.

 

Nintendo dropped out of the graphics rat-race and thought about the game console in a completely different way. That is a paradigm shift -- both by Nintendo and within the industry.

The old paradigm was that graphics improvements sold consoles. But the two Gamecubes duct-taped together has outsold the two HD consoles combined since it was released. That means there was a shift in the buying patterns of console users.  People were looking at consoles differently. You have noted as much talking about Nintendo's marketing change.

And a paradigm shift does not necessarily mean that something did not exist before. But that which was once on the fringe is now becoming the majority. That is a paradigm shift (In other words, casuals are outnumbering hardcores).

 

Mike from Morgantown