I feel a MASSIVE change in the gaming industry

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ArtofAngels said:

 

Ouch. Remind me never to keep anything in my sig that could bite me in the ass...

On the topic, he's right, and I have mixed feelings on the subject.

As a hardcore gamer, I don't like the idea of the market drifting away from my favorite medium, but I think the real truth here is that hardcore games can do well on the Wii, they just need to be designed FOR the Wii.

RE4 is a great example of a game which is hardcore but still sold incredibly well, and it was a port from last gen. Did it matter that it was a port? No. Did it matter that it was hardcore? Again, no. It sold well because it was an excellent game and excellent games will sell well.

I know the talk about lapsed gamers is real because I personally WAS a lapsed gamer. At the end of the last gen, I had no intention of ever buying another console. When I saw the Wiimote, though, all of that changed pretty dramatically.

But I didn't come back to gaming to play non-games. I came back because of what I knew the Wiimote could do for hardcore gaming. There are just too many ways the controller can make hardcore gaming better: FPS aiming, stabbing with weapons, punching enemies, etc. The fact that devs have yet to really harness this doesn't change the fact that it's readily possible to do so.

So yeah, I hope the Wii can become more of a home for the hardcore base than it is now, and all it'll really take is a few solid hardcore titles to shift the balance.