Nintendo has lost the core market this generation

[68soul]

Ail said:
The issue is simply that a core gamer tends to play more than a 2-3 new games a year and the Wii is suffering from the fact that it is churning out 2-3 very good title every year and not much else.

So a core gamer ( or anyone that plays more than a few games/year) has to have a HD platform to get his fix.

And it's understandable from Nintendo point of view why things are that way.

It's unlikely that newcomers to gaming will purchase more than 2-3 titles per year so what Nintendo releases satisfy that part of the market...

Mass market is about lemmings and sheeps...
You only release a few titles and make it so that everyone wants those....

 

Last gen, i was not a "lemming" when all i had was a GC, the biggest joke in town amongst "hardcores" by then, if i remember... and this gen, no, i don't "have to have" a HD platform to "get my fix"...

You've said in another post you have a good budget: same thing for me... but most of my money is spent on records, dvds, books and comics...

I don't know if i'm "core", "hardcore" or any stupid term every nerd seems to use these days... the signature i've used in recent past should give you an indication, anyway: "proud to be a casual gamer since the Pong days"... yeah, playing Pong in the mid 70s was so "core"...

But even now, i like videogames more than mr anybody, i don't buy 2-3 games a year: and to "get my fix", i have both DS and Wii, and i usually buy 10/15 games a year, and i rent 10/20 others...if you have time/money for more, good for you, but you should have a life too, you know...

And so, you don't think there are at least 20 games worth playing each year on Nintendo consoles?

You have to know, though, that i hate most FPS and the so-called "mass-market hardcore must-have" titles like Call of Duty, Halo, GTA, Gears of War... last gen, PS2 had maybe 15 games i've missed (Ico, Okami, Psychonauts, Odin Sphere amongst others), and so far, in THREE years, PS360 have maybe what? 2, 3 games i find creative and attractive? Maybe... Little Big Planet, Bioshock, and... nothing THAT important, nothing to justify a 300-400 euros purchase just to play it... morality? To each his own...

For someone with my tastes (action/adventures, platformers, rpgs, puzzles, lots of colours, imaginative level designs, great artistic direction, intuitive controls), HD and grey/brown FPS mean sh**: can you understand it?

My "core gamer" problem will be 2010: now that the support for Wii finally seems to be what it should have been two ot three years ago, my gaming budget could explode, and i won't have the time to buy/rent and play all the best games on DS and Wii (and Wiiware)... that's a cool problem to have, but the best thing is that i won't have the time to read sites like VGC anymore, tellin' myself: "oh no, not him again..."

And you should do the same thing... go play the incredible amount of games you like, and forget about Nintendo: don't waste your time talkin' about that awful company with all these awful people who still love most of the games they're creating...