Biggest gen ever or will every gen outdo the last?

[Michael-5]

Pineapple said:

 

Why does a game for adults have to be an M rated gore-fest? There are a lot of great PG movies that I enjoy as an adult. I recently saw Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and loved it.

You feel that Nintendo makes games for adults that never grew up, but I feel they make hardcore games for more then just the small teenage male market. Since when were Brain Age, Wii Fit or Smash Bros kids games?

Nintendo focuses on its older brands because they are relativly safe marketing decisions. they do make new IP's now and then, Pikmin was a greta first party game, and Eternal Darkness and Geist were also amazing titles published by Nintendo. However Nintendo isn't good at marketing new IP's. The only really successful ones to have come since Pokemon are the Wii series and a few DS series like Nintendogs and Brain Age.

Does Sony not focus on Gran Turismo and does MS not focus on Halo?

I also disagree about Nintendo not making games intelectually chalenging. In my long history of playing Nintendo games, basically every great single player Nintendo franchise encorporated puzzle elements to games like no other developer. Levels in Mario, Dungeons in Zelda, Boss encounters and Room puzzles in Metroid are all puzzles deeply integrated into the games design. This is one of the reasons why I love Nintendo games so much, it's because in their core they are actually games. They make you think, where a modern FPS is mindless shooting.

I think everyone targeted the adult audience, just in different ways. Brain Age for the DS, and Wii Fit, Metroid Prime 3, and even more casual games like Mario Kart were designed to attract adult gamers on the Wii/DS, MS did it with Halo, Forza, and 3rd party exclusives, Sony did it with Gran Turismo, Killzone, Uncharted, and a large grap of 1st party games.

Everyone also targeted the youth audience, and Sony and MS are now also more directly trying to target the casual audience with Kinect and Move.

So in the end I disagree. I think Nintendo sticks with older franchises because they garentee sales. Mario Kart is a must for every system because it's a recognized brand, a quality game everyone can be interested in, and it's a safe investment. Nintendo probably does work on new large scale IP, di you already forget Brain Age and the Wii franchise? Last gen there was Pikmin, and Eternal Darkness. It's just that Nintendo has always been skeptical about new IP's, but isn't everyone?

Aren't Square Enix's main fanchises still Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest? Yes there are lots of spin off, and occasionally we do see a whole new IP, but I always feel those are more "projects of interest" then full out investments.

Sony is going to hold onto GT and any other mega successful franchise for as long as they can, and so will MS with Forza and HAlo.

I see not difference except that Nintendo tries to play a safer investment, and since they are the smallest of the 3 console manufacturers and have withsttod a severe financial crisis over 30 years ago, it's pretty easy to see why they do that.

However I do think Nintendo should make a new IP, with a plot (not a fitness/brain game).

As for gaming growing bigger then music and movies, I've heard this comment again and again when a big game is released. I don't have any exact articles, but Halo 3 made over 500 million dollars in profit. How much did Avatar make, 2 billion? Avatar was the biggest box office film, Halo 3 is not the biggest game, MW2  doubled Halo's figure, and I bet you Nintendo makes even more $$$ on some of its franchises. As for music, it's been down since the MP3..