Iwata (not laughing): ' We failed with the Wii'

[Avinash_Tyagi]

Loud_Hot_White_Box said:

In my book, Mario games other than Mario Party are pretty much core games, as are Zelda, Metroid, Pokemon, F-Zero, etc.

Or was Nintendo doing blue ocean audience expansion during the NES days?  No, core games can bring people to a system, too, and expand audiences (so yeah, they're also bridge games).

What's new about the Wii vs. GCN etc is the move from Mario-type games as the salient concept to balance boards, vitality sensors, Wii Music-type stuff, etc.  When it hits, it hits big time because the potential audience is huge, but in the meantime they should be bringing more Mario, F-Zero, etc, games which would together drive sales significantly in a demographic that spends a ton on games.

 

EDIT: wow, I see that you define any game with legs as NOT a core game but a momentum game.  Discussion over.  That is ridiculous.

2D mario isn't core, how could it be core? When people first picked up the NES, most were not core, they were beginning gamers just playing for the first time. So no, its not core, it can bridge between core and expanded, but its not core itself.