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Mojo on 06 June 2009
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68soul said:
Mojo said:

I know Nintendo liked to think they were appealing to the hardcore Wii audience, but I don't think these games are enough in 2009. Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit Plus, and NSMBW will all sell quite a bit, but they are ALL for the casual audience. I'm sure Mario will be fun but it really seems like it is a much easier version of the old 2D games and one meant for the whole family to play. It is designed to be played with multiple people but doesn't even have online capability. While I think this is a better lineup than the Wii Music/Animal Crossing debacle of 2008, this is still a fairly week finish to the year for Nintendo. Now 2010 on the other hand sounds like it could be their best year yet on Wii.

 

Even if these games are for a "casual audience" (and i don't agree with that statement, these games could please anyone with an open-mind, both core and casual), there are still many 3rd parties comin' as well, creatin' a very diverse (and high quality) future Wii line-up...

What shocked me during this E3 is this: Sony and Microsoft "win" by showing all the 3rd parties efforts comin' on PS360, and Wii "looses", but if you focus ONLY on 1st party, and totally forget about all the other awesome games comin'... it's another form of bias, one i didn't see comin': Wii haters never cease to amaze me...

So, i know ALL these games won't be realeased for this holiday season, but even if only half of these do, it's already impressive, and quite expensive for any Wii lover out there: Monster Hunter 3, FFCC Crystal Bearers, Dead Space Extraction, Ju-On, Red Steel 2, Muramasa, Fragile, RE Darkside Chronicles, Silent Hill Shattered Memories, Spyborgs, No More Heroes 2, Sin and Punishment 2, Rabbids Go Home, A Boy and His Blob...

These are the ones comin' to my mind, and i don't even mention DS games that could appeal to the same crowd: Mario and Luigi 3, Golden Sun, Professor Layton, Kingdom Hearts, Zelda Spirit Tracks anyone? And Dragon Quest 9 for Japan, too...

If you add sports games like Grand Slam Tennis or Tiger Woods (with huge legs till the holiday season thanks to WM+), plus music games like Beatles Rock Band or DJ Hero, plus "only a few" new 1st parties like Wii Fit Plus, Wii Sports Resort and New Super Mario Bros Wii, plus some of the back catalog you may have missed (Little King Story, by example: i'm sure 99,99% of the "hardcore" gamers will miss that one, just like Okami in the previous gen), you have so many ways to spend your money on great games that it's gettin' totally insane, at least for anyone with a "normal" budget...

And if it's STILL not enough for you: you also have PS3, PSP, X360, PC, plus Wiiware, Virtual Console and all the other download services... hard to complain if you like videogames these days, don't you think?

 

 

Honestly, I do have an open mind when it coems to casual games. I have plenty of those games for the Wii. But these days I have played so many, I want something with a bit mroe challenege, something not intended for the whole family to enjoy. Metroid looks great. if they had announced that as a 2009 game, I think Nintendo could have earned a lot of extra praise.