Where are the Hardcore Wii Nintendo Games?

[mike_intellivision]

TheConduit said:

As a long time Nintendo supported I enjoy all my Nintendo Consoles including my Wii.

As such I am rather confused by Nintendo's marketing strategy for the Wii.

For the Gamecube Nintendo showed alot of support over its short life despite the small size of the install base (22 million) with two star fox games, three Zelda games, a fire emblem games (designed for the console unlike the Wii Fire Emblem), Eternal Darkness, Two Pikmin Games, Two Metroid Games, FOUR mario Party Games and Kriby Air Ride.

Now the Wii  54 million install base three years after Launch has

One Zelda Game originally developed for the Gamecube  TRUE.

A fire emblem game ported to the Wii with lackluster visuals  HUH? SOURCE?

No Eternal Darkness  TRUE. BUT IS THIS A FRANCHISE OR A ONE-OFF GAME?

Two Pikmin Ports  TRUE. THOUGH SUPPOSEDLY A NEW GAME IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT.

No Star Fox TRUE.

One Metroid designed foe the Wii and one collection TRUE.

One Mario Party Game designed for the Gamecube with gamecube visuals and poor motion controls HUH ON GC DESGIN? SOURCE?

No Kirby Games TRUE. BUT THERE HAS NOT BEEN A KIRBY ADVENTURE STYLE GAME SINCE THE N64.

And a whole lot of games with Wii in the title. TRUE. AND THEY HAVE SOLD THE SYSTEM.

Now does anyone think Nintendo has put to much of its resources into the casual market and neglected the hardcore fans many of whom stayed with Nintendo even through the Gamecube era?

This OP uses selective and potentially misleading facts to make its point.

It omits several games from the list (others have mentioed them) and it talks about others as if they were core-accepted (e.g., many complained that four Mario Party games were too many).

It ascribes Game Cube origins to games where it does not seem to have been the case (as far as I know, that list is only Zelda:TP, Super Paper Mario, and DK Barrell Blast. There is no evidence anything else was ever annouced (or in the case of Zelda, released) for the GC.  Admittedly, given the simiarlity between the two systems, it would not be surprising if some elements from the GC games were "ported" to the Wii, however.

Finally, given that the average person buys between 8 and 12 games over the LIFE OF A CONSOLE ... and this generation is expected to last longer for technological and economic reasons, then it would make sense that Nintendo is possibly spreading its releases out a bit more than in the past.

 

Mike from Morgantown