| _honeybadger_ said: Does it makes business sense to you to target the less prominent demographic of WII owners with a highly complex and hardcore Game? No it doesnt, the games that the big publishers are currently making is trying to get their WII FIT/WII PLAY type of Hit, you think they are not trying but the fact is that they are not making that game for you, they want the expanded audience. Plain an Simple. |
You completely missed my point, honeybadger.
I don't care if they 'target' me or not. It annoys me when the companies claim they are targeting me when they obviously are not.
Examples: Madworld, RE:UC, RE:DC, Deadspace:Extraction. All of these games were supposedly targeted at the 'Core'-- the companies have flat out said as much. But these are niche titles at best and would not have sold well on ANY system. These companies then claim that core titles will not sell on the Wii. But these companies have not released any 'core' titles-- but they have the audacity to claim that they have and that their failures are somehow my fault for not wanting these games (even though I would probably fit most peoples definition of a 'core gamer', I did not buy any of these games because they are not appealing to the 'core' crowd).
It would be one thing if these companies had actually tried and then claimed that core games would not sell-- I would be fine with that. It is the hypocrisy of these companies that irritates me. (I also disagree with your assertion that it would not benefit these companies to make 'highly complex and hardcore' games-- but neither one of us could provide facts to this argument because third parties have yet to bring such games to the Wii).
Oddly, the one company that everyone claims is 'going casual' (Nintendo) is the only company that is putting 'core' games on the Wii: Metroid Corruption, Punch-out, Galaxy, Other M, Zelda, Galaxy 2, etc. I could also add Mario Kart and NSMBWii to this list as well, but those are more bridge titles as Nintendo calls them (in other words, everybody likes them). (This has nothing to do with the conversation, it was just an odd thought that struck me while typing this response).
Second-- if these companies put out a product as good as Wii Fit, I would buy it (Just Dance has actually caught my eye, I think it would be a fun game for the wife and I to play together).
