Here we go again: Heavy Rain creator calls Wii a toy and board game

[dunno001]

SaviorX said:

I wonder... why does everybody who is rarely or never even associated with the Wii in terms of content... always have a comment about it or Nintendo?

I mean, if the console does not concern you...or you don't even make games for it, why even mention it?

And yet, we  always get an earful of what the Wii is doing wrong or what its limitations are. I don't understand it.

You refuse to make Wii games; you complain about Nintendo not working hard enough; you belittle the console; you intentionally release subpar games to abuse and destroy the market; you spend the least money on it and still make profit. What more can they possibly do to prove they hate it?

I'm really surprised no one has attacked Reggie Fils-Aime at an E3 like the hip-Hop Awards already... :P

I'll give you my take on it: they feel threatened. Nintendo has seen that the current gaming industry, as is, is an unsustainable model. What was it, that made the past several systems successful? Access to the masses. So how can you get out to more people? That's where Nintendo went with the Wii.

And Nintendo was successful. MASSIVELY so. Enough so that the 'traditional' developers were threatened by the new people that Nintendo was bringing in. Their 'hardcore' games couldn't sell as well as the new 'casual' games in most cases- the base of sales was shifting. Rather than trying to adapt to these new gamers, and make games that could appeal to a wider swath of the market, they'd rather belittle what is causing the change. And if they could get enough people to believe their, frankly, crap, public interest and confidence in the Wii would drop, and these new gamers would move to more 'hardcore' offerings. (Which, sorry, no. They'd leave gaming again, and help continue to perpetuate that gaming is an isolationist hobby.)

Fortunately, it's taken about 4 years of their bitching, comparing, whining, and, yes, sabotage, to finally dent the Wii's shell. But by now, it's too late. The Wii has seen enough success that it has both Microsoft and Sony looking at how to emulate what the Wii made successful, with their own spin. (I am not getting into Wiimote vs Kinect vs Move.) Nintendo has made their impression on the market. But continue, the detractors will, since they've seen the Wii can be dented, and they'll continue until they get their way (unlikely), they decide to adapt (even less likely), or they go bankrupt catering to an increasingly less relevant 'hardcore' market. It may seem cruel in the current economic market, but I await their bankruptcy; it's the only thing that'll stop their whining.