Erik designs the Wii 2

[Erik Aston]

RolStoppable said:

Well, I did say that Nintendo could succeed, if they didn't pull crap like the one you mentioned several examples of. I'd like to say something that refutes some of the stuff you said, but in the end it probably is going to come down to your conclusion: That all the Wii and DS games will end up being looked at as fads, because Nintendo is unable or unwilling to really follow up on what they started. 

Although I do think that you are selling Pilotwings Resort a little bit short. It's the title of the series with the most stuff to do in it, but then again the expectations for the amount of content that has to be in a video game have risen in the past 15 years, so it's not really all that great. Meh. I guess you do have a point there as well.

In some ways it's fascinating how Nintendo managed to rise from almost irrelevance to heaven in a matter of a couple of years only to destroy its newfound success just as quickly as it was achieved.

I don't even know how much it is about rising expectations for the level of content. It's not like the old Pilotwings games sold at Mario or Pokemon levels. But Wii Sports Resort certainly would have sold at Mario or Pokemon levels without the current bundling, had it not required extra doo-dads and turned the controller situation into a mess.

What I'm saying is that the expectation for the level of content in a game was really high ever since Super Mario Bros. came out. Games without a massive amount of content have been hard-pressed to create a phenomenon since then. When the success of Wii is built on Wii Sports, and Wii Sports Resort had 12 sports including, basically, Pilotwings, it's amazing that Nintendo could think releasing a game with JUST Pilotwings and JUST that one level we already played in WSR is somehow a worthwhile launch game! Pilotwings won't even be on the shelves by 3DS's second year, let alone be "evergreen." A Wii Sports style game would be successful even without the Wii remote, especially if it had Mario Kart style online.

That's why I want a Wii Play style game with all the old and new arcade style games. One I forgot was Alleyway. Just imagine that. In one package, definitive 4-player versions of:

Mario Bros.
Duck Hunt
Wild Gunman
Dr. Mario
Yoshi
Yoshi's Cookie
Panel De Pon
Puyo Puyo
Tetris
Picross
Tanks
Excitebike
Wrecking Crew
Alleyway
Mini-Golf
Pool
Darts

2 controllers with a Super Wii and either Wii Sports 3 or Mario Bros. for $300. And then 2 more controllers with all of those games in 4-player for $100. Use those great games to attach 4 controllers to each console, not to pointlessly drive online sales by selling them for $5 each. Someone at Nintendo should be writing this down.

The only part of my scenario likely to play out is Mario Kart. 9 cups, 6 of them new, and 3 of them old. Since MKW already did the "best of" old MKs, this one could have a DS Cup, Wii Cup and 3DS Cup, plus 6 new cups. The Mario Kart team "gets it" and just makes a lot of great new content for each game.