| Gnizmo said: Yeah Nintendo clearly isn't giving the consumer what they want. They just have managed to sell almost as much as the two other systems combined. The quality of the core games are just terrible too. Super Smash Bros Brawl was just god awful. Metroid Prime Trilogy was easily the worst thing to ever happen to the series, and lets not even start on the critical failure that was Super MArio Galaxy. I can't believe they even made a sequel to that game. Until Nintendo starts getting studios to put big series like Dragon Quest, or Monster Hunter on their console the who effect is a lost cause. You would never see a development studio like Team Ninja touch the console because Nintendo is just not willing to work with them. Hopefully they just drop out of the console market next generation. |
Pretty much said everything that needed to be said.
Also, when Nintendo has already released more 'core' games than they did on the GameCube in less than 3 years and is about to surpass the N64 in less than 4, I have no idea why people can keep saying they aren't appealing to the 'core' gamer. The only thing I can figure is, these are the types of people who are comparing the Wii to the 360/PS3 or cry fowl that not every game Nintendo makes is at the level of Ocarina of Time (in other words, people mad at their 'Wii' line of games like WiiFit and WiiMusic).
mortono said:
Did the term "hardcore gamer" exist before... like in the 90s? I don't remember using it. |
The term 'hardcore' was put to gaming in the early 90s, by devs of FPS and action titles (mostly PC) to set their titles apart from other types of games. The term was mostly meant to signify the game was meant to be more 'intense' to play and has a more adult theme to it. Sadly, its taken on many more meanings since such as people claiming a game is Hardcore if it has blood and cussing or its hardcore only if its hard or its hardcore because you spend hundreds of hours playing it, etc.
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