| rakugakist said: So, I'm an upmarket gamer, huh? Sweet. I still don't really know what that means, but sweet. |
You spend or are willing to spend lots of time and energy learning and playing video games; complex games, controls, and concepts are not a turn-off, and in fact are often welcomed.
| Qays said: NSMB I'm on the fence about. Either way, though, it's not really valuable for the purposes of this discussion since to my knowledge no one else (besides indies) is even trying to compete with Nintendo in the old-school 2D platformer market. |
I'm assuming you're trolling and calling Little Big Planet a glorified level editor, then?
| Qays said: Fifteen years from now HD core games might well be considered casual. |
That's...incredibly unlikely, and if it is then the gaming core will probably be such a minute niche that it will have become irrelevant.
| greenmedic88 said: Video games in general were almost exclusively a core experience about 3 generations back. There really wasn't an "expanded audience" to speak of. |
I don't want to be mean here, but I'm deeply interested in hearing you explain yourself, because it sounds very much like you have no idea what the terms you're tossing about actually mean.
| Qays said: So bigtime corporate executives are purposefully sabotaging their companies' profits en masse? That doesn't sound plausible at all. |
I'm curious to hear what makes you question the possibility that a corporation's officers are willing to hamper the corporation (of which they own little or nothing) for their own short-term gain?
| Gilgamesh said: Nintendo gamers are more hardcore then we thought, that's why third party is practically non existent on the Wii. Let me explain. For the last two generation (N64, Gamecube) Nintendo gamers have been playing nothing but the best games on them systems which consist of mostly Nintendo's first party games, since all the 3rd party games were going to the PSOne and PS2. So there just doing what they have been doing for the last two generations, they know that Nintendo's first party games are nothing but the best for them so they know they wont be disappointed. They're just hesitant to jump into the pool of 3rd party games when first party is all they've been playing for the last 15 years. |
Obvious problem: the Wii has already sold more systems than any previous Nintendo home console, especially the Gamecube and N64. This makes it impossible for tens of millions of consumers to have learned a lesson from a system which they never owned.
