Nintendos Disruption Strategy and all the rest are falling into the trap!

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Destroyer_of_knights said:
and yet, allot of the games that I like are not on the wii, hell allot of the highly rated games are on platforms other than the wii, so the disruption has only served to steal, some what, the casual market from both Sony and microsoft...and that's really it.

I don't think you understand Disruption.

 

Disruptive games are like Wii Sports. Wii Sports will never be highly rated, because all the game reviewers are 'hardcore'. They'll say 'this game's dumb for stupid jerks we hate. We want it to have 1080p graphics with gore and blood FOR NO GODDAMNED REASON. Make all the Miis naked, and perfectly rendered. And instead of baseball bats, they need swords. And instead of Baseball, make it God of War.'

The hyper-casual audience says "Hey, this game's pretty fun", and gives nintendo a ton of money. (Wii Sports basically sold the Wii. Everyone saying "The wii is a toy that people keep in their closet for parties" is really saying "People are willing to pay 250$ for Wii Sports") Nintendo uses that money to bankroll improvements in the motion technology, and puts out a product that's a teensy bit more hardcore than Wii Sports. Say, Mario Kart Wii. And the crazy thing is? Mario Kart Wii, with motion controls and cartoon graphics, is actually pretty damn realistic. About as realistic as, say, a PS2 Gran Turismo. Gran Turismo has better, more realistic graphics, but you play it using a joystick, which is completely unnatural and unrealistic.

So the semi-casuals and the hyper-casuals say "Hey, this game's pretty fun", and nintendo gets even more money (MKWii has sold almost 16 million copies, more than any Gran Turismo game, including the ones on the PS2 that has almost three times the install base of the Wii currently. And MKWii's still selling.) And Nintendo gets millions of dollars, and they invest it to make the Wii Motion Plus, which is like the Wii motion controls, but a little bit better. And that pushes the market upwards, closer to the hardcore territory. Next, the Wii gets Sports games. 

And every time the motion controls steal a genre, they add new values. I have no desire to ever play a racing game without motion controlled steering (or a racing wheel, but I'm not gonna pay for one of those). I don't really want to play Resident Evil 5 until it gets a wii port, because RE4Wii controlled perfectly. And honestly, could you imagine somebody releasing a 'fun party game' on either the PS3 or the 360? Would you play a 360 Bowling game, with photorealistic graphics, but you play with a 360 controller?

I honestly don't think Gran Turismo 5 or Forza 3 are going to sell well. They don't have motion control. And if Sony and MS want to retake those genres, they're going to have to move to the expanded market, where their previous advantages (super awesome graphics) become liabilities (high price and large size).

 

Oh, god. I think I was channeling Malstrom there for a moment.