radishhead on 25 August 2010
leatherhat said:
superchunk said:
leatherhat said:
Funtime said:
leatherhat said:
You know, this doesn't really fit the topic but since I don't see a better place to ask Ill do it here. Why do game companies and gamers alike assume that to get people to game you need some shallow, crappy game like wii sports, sport champions, kinectimals etc.? All of us on this site are "core gamers" and we certainly didn't get started on such nonsense. Wouldn't it be better to give them fun experiences that challange them slightly so you make new gamers and not just people jumping in for 2 seconds of fun then going right back to movies/books/tv ?
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You can't compare the 60 000 members of this site to the millions and millions of gamers (both casual and hardcore) out there that would never even think to go on a video game website. People here are a minority. If this site represented the rest of the world PS3 would be sitting in first with about 80 million sold right now and Xbox 360 would be in 3rd with about 25 million.
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I'm not talking about just vgchartz. Tens of millions got into gaming without simplistic motion control games. And people aren't born "core" or "casual", they become them overtime. Meaning when the tens of millions of gamers out there started playing they jumped in and slowly became core with high quality games and not shovelware filled peripherals.
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Wrong. I started on Atari which consisted of primarily simplistic games as compared to today's "core" games.
On top of that FAR more people play flash web games than anything any console puts out showing far more regular "gamers" enjoy the simply quick games. Nintendo simply captured what was extensive on the web and started that on the consoles.
Once they buy these games on a home console, these players are more likely to buy a slightly more complex game like NSMBWii and potentially keep moving up the game tree depending on their own personal lives. Some people just don't have time for longer in-depth games. Reason why the only game I purchase that takes a real long time to beat is Zelda.
Other than that, most of my games are less than 20hrs games. As it is it takes me months to get through it in my shorter play spurts.
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Its not about length. Mario and wii sports are both pick up and play but Mario is a much better game. Games like TF2 are also very pick up and play and conducive to short bouts of gaming. And yet companies continue to produce motion control gimmick based games thinking that this is the best way to hook people.
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Have you played Wii Sports (Resort particularly)?
