Reggie: Motion controlled/Fitness games are becoming Red Ocean.

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trestres said:
I doubt it will be as big as Wii Sports in Japan. The market is overly saturated with those kinds of games already thanks to the success of the first Wii Sports. Remember these people are not core gamers, they are casual gamers and they might not end up buying the sequel even if it comes with an extra peripheral, because it could be meaningless for them. Had the market remained balanced (without so many sports and mini-game collections), Wii Sports Resort would have been bigger IMO.

Many of these new gamers could be satisfied with Wii Sports and all the other sports/minigame collections released in such a short period of time, so WSR will not be an essential buy for them. I'm thinking the same about Wii Fit+, but the thing is it's coming out faster than WSR did in comparison to Wii Sports, so there wasn't enought time to flood the market, even though it's becoming saturated quickly with many fitness games announced for the rest of the year.

Reggie is right about the Red Ocean status that fitness games are gaining. What I don't share is the practice of releasing a peripheral and then never supporting it again. WM+ shouldn't just be a peripheral, it should be an almost obligatory purchase for Wii owners, since it's enhancing the quality of the console. What WM+ will do is divide the audience if it's not bought by most of the people, and that's something no developer wants, because then you are having a console with a userbase that's now smaller than the competition's.

It sold over 3 million copies in Japan. Saying that these people are exclusively "not core" makes no sense because by that point there's no one left that doesn't own the game. Not only that but WSR is already selling like hotcakes, so the idea that it's "too late" or not going to have an impact is already dismissed by reality, and the wonderful thing about saturation (of which there isn't much of in this category) is that the top franchises are rarely the first ones to feel the burn.

Right now you're just inventing a crisis to fret about.