IGN Review: Wii Sports Resort. Right in the middle

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Torillian said:
but you can agree that in general getting more gaming for your dollar is better for most people right? There are standards for genres, I don't grade an action game based on the length norms of a JRPG because that would not be fair.

So yes, because of what you said it might be best for you to ignore that part of the score and look at the rest since your tastes go against what would probably be called the norm, but for most people I think an idea of how much gaming you'll get out of a game is a good thing to include in a review.

 

HappySquirrel said exactly what I'm trying to say. For me is also important getting more gaming for my dollar, but a game doesn't need thousands of features to accomplish that.

I don't know what standards you are talking about, and who created those standards? Should an adventure game be 20 hrs or more because that's the standard of the industry? I don't think so. If I had 18 years probably wouldn't care, but now not having enough time to play I think twice before buying long games.

Nintendo says the core market is shrinking so they're creating a new market. Why is the core market shrinking? Maybe because people that grew playing Nes are now adults, work, have families, so their gaming time is limited. It's possible this long games, that supposedely are for core gamers, are alieneting them more than casual games. I have many friends in that situation, and even myself sometimes prefer to play a game like Bonsai Barber after work than Madworld for example.

I was talking about a poll IGN had the other day, about online on the Wii. IGN, a site for the core/hardcore, and the final results showed most Wii owners don't really care. I know this poll could be flawed, a joke, innacurate or whatever, but I was shocked to see those results (and I'm sure it was shocking for IGN too, reason why that poll was just for one or two days).