Is Nintendo killing core gaming?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

rafichamp said:

Remember when being a gamer meant something?  Nope.  It might be cool that your girlfriend plays as much as you do, and she is doing it in tight shorts or naked, but really?  Yes, that is awesome.  It's actually possible to like games and naked girls at the same time.  They are not mutually exclusive interests.  If your grandma and your 2 year old niece are playing games too, doesn't the appeal of being called a gamer wear off? What appeal?  I like games.  Nobody can change that.

Don't get me wrong, the Wii has some gems, but any real "gamer" has more then just a Wii, if they even have a Wii. Incorrect.  Most gamers only have one console.  This is true every generation.  This generation most people own a Wii, whether hardcore or casual or whatever.  It has the most exclusive controls, so it has the most exclusive games, and even the most exclusive genres.  I have to mention that I did own a Wii at one time (purchased at launch) and enjoyed it for about two weeks.  B...  Zelda was a great game, and there a couple of others on the system (see Mario Galaxy), but how much fun can you actually have with those.  I...  People seem to forget that Twilight Princess was a Game Cube game with motion controls thrown into it.  NGO...

I am tired of living in a world where the simplest games are absolutely murdering sales charts. I take it this guy doesn't remember the appeal of Pac-Man.  That was the most successful game of all time when it came out.  It had ZERO buttons.  Old people and kids and women played it.  It was the Wii Sports of 1980.

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