Defining moment: Nintendo criticised for being too hardcore

[Joelcool7]

Farmageddon said:
Their taste is most likely just as horrible as your taste has once been to the generation before yours.

Besides, no game makes an entire new generation of gamers, but some games do help define segments of it, and this is one you can expect to do so.

Yah to be honest my uncle grew up on Intellivision and Commodore64 and thinks that it had the best games, but I grew up on 2600 and NES and think that NES/SNES had the best games of all time. Then theirs the people who grew up on Nintendo64 and think that had the best games of all time. And the little kids growing up on GameCube/Wii will look back at our games and think we had bad taste just as we look at their games and think they have bad taste.

Fact is every generation has a different taste in games. The older generation (Hardcore) tend to like more mature games right now, Halo/ModernWarFare2/GTA4 while the NES/SNES gamers may be loving the Wii and the N64 gamers are loving their graphics on the 360 or PS3. All I know is Nintendo isn't targetting our generation, they are targeting a new generation of soccer mom's and five year olds. They are infact creating the next generation of hardcore gamers. We just won't see their hardcore games as hardcore, we see them as casual.

But to a soccer mom, she'll call herself hardcore even though she just plays WiiSportsResort, WiiFit and WiiMusic. My mom is the perfect example she's hooked on the Wii series and the casual games, she really thinks she's a gamer. Is she wrong? no she plays games as much as I do just different games.

What I'm saying is we all have seperate views on which games shaped our generation's and in the same way we think of the NES generations to come will remember the Wii!