Does the Wii prove that the HD razor/blade model is flawed?

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MaxwellGT2000 said:
Hello captain obvious :P

Good thread, though I see people trying to debate many of these points. Honestly the mass of people that game still see SNES games as looking really good. It's just not that big of a deal to them and its only hurting console/game makers by making everything more expensive.

(see http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=96165&page=1&str=1128642870#)

But the game industry refuses to see this right now, they see the "gamers" as the masses, when they're not, and never have been. Would be great for the game industry to see why things like NSMB Wii sells out when its hard for great games like Chronicles of Riddick to sell much less sell consistently over time. I say it'd be a great time in gaming for both consumers and the business as a whole.

      Its funny you mention Riddick. I found the game to be...grotesque. It took a while to wrap my head around the controls, and I ultimately did not like it. The style just seemed like something a rapist came up with (no offense if you liked it or not). It was just too weird and different from the Riddick films for me.

 

I don't have to explain to you why Mario sells.

 

     As for the SNES, I know first hand that people in the majority who do not roam message boards and such do enjoy simpler gaming. Look at Farmville, just a 2D-looking farm sim. Harvest Moon should be almost as popular, but alas it hasn't been marketed correctly, or at all to the right people.

 

     Graphics do not have to be a shiny bump-mapped mess to be great looking. NSMB may have low poly-count characters, but the level design is EXTREMELY clean and crisp. I said it myself that it might as well be a 360 or PS3 game. Thing is, I say that because I would be satisfied if thats what those systems were capable of putting out.  Too bad the "gaming industry" is so obsessed with graphical output that we have seen such a sharp decrease in the amount of new IPs being released. Add to that the dev costs and sense of creative entitlement. It is misconstrued who these games are being made for.