Has Nintendo's Efforts to Entice Third Parties Worked Against It?

[Avinash_Tyagi]

WereKitten said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
^mainstream sentiment is with the Wii and DS, as sales show, two systems which are underpowered compared to other systems, and not known for advanced graphics and tech

That's what I implied in my post as well.

And the point was that whatever the sales or your personal taste in gaming, denying that the developers of games such as Uncharted, Alan Wake, Bioshock are harnessing the tech for their vision on what videogames can deliver, denying that there are passionate artists and professionals who feel that tech grants them more tools and ways to express themselves sounds limited and shallow.

Calling them graphic whores was downright insulting.

Please open your mind a bit. Some developers don't hate the Wii for weird tinfoil-hat reasons. Some of them just want to do what they want to do, and as long as their way is economically viable we should just rejoice that there's enough interest in the market to support a variety of visions, even if they don't gross as much as WiiFit.

I'm not being insulting, the idea that they need the tech to deliver the experience is disproven over and over, not just in video games, but in other media, games didn't suddenly become good this gen after having sucked for decades, the fact that they feel they need the tech, just shows that one they are unable to deliver an engaging experience without it, or that they are too obsessed with graphics.

 

I don't feel it is some conspiracy against the Wii, I'm talking about the mindset in the industry that is the problem the mindset that games must have HD graphics, and must have all these unnecessary bells and whistles or it sucks.