Why Nintendo’s Core games aren't hitting the mark anymore

[trestres]

Core games aren't hitting the mark anymore, because they rarely release them anymore. The ones that got advertised succeeded, the ones sent to die with no advertising, hype and surprise announcements failed, and bad at it. Besides, the Wii is being mostly advertised as a casual console, so I doubt many people are buying Wii's to play core games. It's time for them to start targeting for the Blue Ocean audience, rather than the new audience only.

It's simple, their core games fail because no one is interested in them, not even core gamers. We know nothing about them and then they are never advertised so who is going to buy them? We saw that during 2006, 2007 and early 2008 core games were succeeding on the Wii, but then Nintendo adopted that new "no info before release" strategy and that "no announcemnt until the game is on the shelves" strategy that killed any chance of new IP's or core games to succeed. Add to that the "no ads because core gamers already know about the game" strategy, and ther you have it, extremely limited target audience who at the same time doesn't know anything about the game. It's like buying a surprise box without knowing what's inside.

Since mid 2008 thay have literally done this to all their core and more traditional games, so many gamers chose to migrate to another console (I know this from experience) that offered more games, or at least apparently did, because most Nintendo games remained unknown and many times unreleased in the West. Their strategy concerning core games is terrible, they couldn't even manage to sell Punch-Out in Europe and they said they targeted at the Nº 1 spot with it on the release date... the game didn't even appear on the top 40.

I don't know but as time passes by and as Nintendo sees that core games are no longer viable, and mostly due to their negligence and lack of care, we will start to see them catering to the newest audience more and more, who does buy their games, but because those games DO GET ADVERTISED AND PROMOTED HEAVILY. I don't want this to happen obviously, and that's why I'm so pissed. But if people feel that their time with Nintendo is over, they will undoubtedly move on. I say this E3 is their last chance before it's too late, because if they lose many of their core and loyal supporters, by next gen the casuals will be very hard to convince unless there's a huge new innovation and other companies don't offer a better deal.

Good luck Nintendo, for the last time.