Resident_Hazard said:
What I bolded is what I'm commenting on: That's an example of the overly negative attitude (towards non-Nintendo titles) that constantly keeps down the 3rd party companies. Why would they bother to make AAA-quality titles when A-quality don't sell (MadWorld is a high quality title in every respect, sans game length) because of this kind of attitude. As I pointed out before, mediocre-quality, hardcore titles on other systems routinely trump slightly higher-quality (though still mediocre) similar titles on other systems. Again, Haze generally scored about two (out of 10) points lower than The Conduit, but sold vastly better. If Nintendo gamers are going to have that, dare I say, elitist attitude towards 3rd party games, while still wasting money on pure crap like another Mario Party game just because it's from Nintendo--then 3rd party companies are never going to care about putting their higher quality titles on the system. Again, Red Steel 2 & No More Heroes 2--very high reviews, shameful sales. Had they been on the Xbox360 or PS3, no doubt they would've sold much better. And I'm talking sales numbers, not percentages. The RE:Chronicles games certainly aren't perfect, but they're still fun games, and effort was put into them--and they deserve sales. So does Dead Space Extraction, for that matter. I'm not ripping on you or anything personally, but simply using your post to illustrate the elitist attitude that I believe is often found in Nintendo gamers (which I had back in the day, to be fair). Look at my collection now--I've grown a little. |
Elistest attitude? Pot, meet the kettle.
I used to think that Mario Party games were "pure crap". To be honest in all the years I thought that I'm not sure if I'd spent more than a couple of minutes playing them. Then I met my wife; the only video games she will play are Mario Party games. So in the years since I have played many hours of them.
Party games still aren't really my thing, and I wouldn't ever play them without my wife or son. But calling Mario Party pure crap is absolute ignorance. They are very well thoughout and designed games. They are absoutely excellent at what they purport to do. People don't buy them because they are Nintendo, people buy them because nobody but Nintendo puts so much effort into party games.
This is the whole thing that so many 3rd parties don't understand about Wii owners; they aren't biased towards Nintendo games, they are biased towards games that are well made. And any company that puts out crap, be it a party game, a sports game, a rpg, a fps or anything else suffers.
