Iwata and Miyamoto: Wii caused the split between casual/core Wiiu will fix that

[Khuutra]

LordTheNightKnight said:

Khuutra said:

LordTheNightKnight said:
The only split was between developers that like to make loads of graphics and cuts scenes, and gamers in general.

There are no "gamers in general", and there was definitely a buyer split - which, yes, was partially caused by developers, but only because about half the home console gamers on the planet followed the games they wanted to play. Pretending that the third parties don't know their own audience is preposterous, and it's even more preposterous to suggest that they don't go (too far) out of their way to serve that audience.

That's a very dubious number claim. (1)

And third paerties have been loosing money, and few games that sell with any legs, which does mean they don't know their audience. (2) Plus thinking they didn't go out of their way is the truth, or else they would have supported the Wii audience as well as the audiences on the other systems, instead of releasing games with increasing sameness, increasing budgets, and/or increasing development time, when the games with any legs have shown that is not what gamers want. (3)

1. Not really. Multi-console ownership tends to occur most often with owners of both a Wii and an HD system, if I remember Nintendo's own numbers on the matter, and it's not high enough to skew the numbers either way.

2. Here is a dubious claim. Lack of business acumen is not the same thing as failing to serve your audience - inefficient resource management is a different problem altogether, one Nintendo never had even at their most niche.

3. Here is a preposterous claim altogether. I said they go out of thheir way to serve [their] audience, and they do, often to the detriment of their bank accounts. This makes them stupid and servile together, but they are still servile, which is the point.

My original point stands: your statement that third parties moved away from "gamers in general" is bunk, unsupported, unsubstantiated, needlessly inflammatory, and lacking in the structure and reason necessary for a decent supposition, much less an argument.