It's Pachter Time again kids!!: Wii HD is real, Soylent Green is made .....

[Mr Khan]

richardhutnik said:

KungKras said:

Kenology said:
Wow, so 2D Mario is the suxxors according to Shatterfield and is not a core game. This gen is amazing.

2D Mario is a non-game?

Amazing. And people say that there is no bias against the Wii in gaming media. No bias at all.

It appears that, ever since the Mortal Kombat on the Genesis-SNES days, that Nintendo can't shake the "kiddie" label.  Now people feel safe in calling kiddie "not core".  That is the amazing part.  If a 2D Mario isn't core, then I guess core needs a lot of gore, blood and disembowlment.

Seems to me like platformers can no longer be called core anymore, unless they incorporate a lot of TPS elements.