The Industry being stubborn

[Carl]

Soma said:

Carl2291 said:

Soma said:
Carl, so you're saying core gamers that might be interested by the game, they lost interest after watching the advertising? C'mon that's not true, a core gamer knows what's this game about and don't care of advertising or reviews. If he likes platformers knows very well what's Mario 2D about.

The advertising was clearly for the expanded audience, but the game isn't just for them.

No, i'm saying the advertising brings in the whole bunch of "casual" gamers to the Wii. Nintendo are currently marketting the machine to that specific group, and have been for as long as i can remember. This means 3rd parties will focus mainly on that group. Thus, the games targetted at them have been selling really well since the Wii launched. As of right now, i point you towards games like Just Dance, EA Sports Active, The Biggest Loser, Walk It Out.

Yes, Nintendo advertising is targeting new or uninterested gamers, because they are more difficult to convince in buying your game. Core gamers already know what they want or what the game's about. I agree that advertising more of their core games would be great. Of those games you mentioned, well aparently they are quality games, not shovelware. There are more Wii sports / Wii Fit wanna be clones that failed because of the quality.

In fact, I'm reading reviews in Amazon for Walk It Out, and I'm surprised how well this game has been received. Out of 72 reviews, 67 people gave the game 4 stars or more.

They are quality games in the genre they are in, yes. I never called any of them shovelware, by the way (at least i don't think i did). But the point is, those genre's don't appeal to the same audience that buys Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, Resident Evil, Etc.