Joelcool7 said:
I would have agreed with you in the GameCube era. But now with the Wii I no longer have such faith that Nintendo really cares about games more then money. In the past good games sold high numbers of units. Even on the GameCube Nintendo's big franchises still raked in millions. Infact GameCube was just as profitable or probubly more so then Microsoft and many would argue even Sony. But this generation what sells (WiiFit/WiiMusic/WiiPlay/WiiSports). These tech demo's made millions and millions. So cheap to develope and so much profit in return. So in my opinion Nintendo got greedy. I mean honestly did we need WiiFitPlus? only 6-new excersizes. Was Nintendo really trying to give us the best quality game with WiiFitPlus. Or how about WiiPlay? Was Nintendo really trying to give us a AAA+ game or were they simply trying to sell us another Wiimote? With WiiSportsResort was Nintendo really trying to give us another high quality title or were they simply trying to push people to pick up WiiMotionPlus so that Nintendo could make more money with future titles? Nintendo sold out, lets face it. Its no longer about the next great StarFox/DonkeyKong game instead its about making profit by producing games with low overhead and selling them for huge profits! Who can honestly defend WiiFitPlus? Honestly I bought WiiFit last year and WiiFitPlus just looks like another money grab! |
Some people are so blinded and refuse to open their eyes.
To address "good" games selling a lot
Zelda: Wii - 5.34m GC - 4.55m (TP - 1.56m)
3D Mario: Wii - 8.17m GC - 6.28m
2D Mario: Wii - at least they released one
Metroid: Wii - 1.77m and counting (other M) - GC - 4.11m (prime had 2.83m of those)
Mario Kart: Wii - 17.84m (and the much better game) GC - 6.96m
Mario Strikers: Wii - 2.02m GC - 1.58m
Fire Emblem: not enough info, but it sold 10k more in Japan on Wii
Punch-Out!!: Wii = 600k
Paper Mario: Wii - 2.82m GC - 2.05m
Battalion Wars: not enough info, but it sold 10k more in Japan on Wii
So this list of 10 "good" games that outsold/matched their GC counterparts (and counting up quickly with unreleased games that have been announced) by your standards is wiped out by 3 games that hardly stole any development time at all just because they sold to the masses. I bet if those 3 games flopped instead you would be singing Nintendo's praise as they struggled to reach 20m hardware units sold. Not only that, but I would argue that almost every single one of those games is better on Wii than GC with Zelda and Paper Mario being about the only exception.
And if you are going to pull the DonkeyKong/StarFox crap, then why in the world do you praise the GC for bringing bastardized versions of those games out? You should be hating on it if anything. Nintendo hasn't made the "next great StarFox/DonkeyKong game" since the N64 days. Some franchises take a rest like punch-out!! did. That doesn't mean they abandonded gaming as a whole.
Finally, I will defend Wii Fit Plus no problem. Wii Fit Plus fixed the problems that the gamers/consumers complained about. The lack of routines and the ability to go from one exercise to the next quickly. People praise other companies for doing the same thing, and that was a big change for Wii Fit in terms of usabilty. And yea, it only has 6 new exercises, but you conveniently left out the 15 new games within it. Ultimately, Wii Fit Plus is what the consumer wanted.
