Reggie promises casual assault next year!

[mike_intellivision]

padib said:

sethnintendo said:

padib said:

Seriously it's getting ridiculous. When will they realize that we want the whole spectrum? Casual, core, casual-core, core-casual... They need to stop splitting the userbase and just make games for everybody.

I thought they already did.  When I buy most of the Mario games they say E for everybody on the front.  When I look at just some of the 3DS line up next year with Paper Mario, Luigi's Mansion 2, Animal Crossing, etc I see game for everybody.  I know some might want to jump on me for saying Animal Crossing but I have played all the Animal Crossing games and I can tell you there are some very hardcore people actually let me restate that casuals that play the game hardcore that play the game.  I even know of a few dedicated sites that are probably still up and running.  http://www.animalcrossingcommunity.com/ being the main one which I am a member of.  I even donated 12 dollars to them back when I was playing AC:WW a lot.  Top donor donated $530 to the site.  I've met plenty of young, middle aged, and older people online that play AC 2-3 hours a day sometimes or more.   Anyways, I'll stop with my AC rant.

SethN there are tons of people who wouldn't touch LM2 with a 10-foot pole. It doesn't appeal to everybody. I understand that it's just one of many games, the collection of which appeals to everybody. Okay, even that would be acceptable. But your E argument doesn't work in that case, as I said for LM2.

If I want to be absolutely bullish about this, I would say rather that they need to work hard not only on making a library that appeals to everyone, but to find those individual games that also appeal to everyone, like certain classic disney movies (Lion King, Aladdin), or say Indiana Jones. Super Mario and Zelda on the Wii are the closest bet I've found to that. Granted, this point is much harder to achieve.

They need to flood their console with good content for everyone, like the PS3 did for its core audience, Nintendo needs to do that for its whole audience and its unreached audience as well. A huge feat, but they have the money.

I think you are both getting and missing the point.

Everyone points out the success of MW3's sales last week -- but no one mentions that it was not boght by approximately 85% of the user base. In other words, more than four out of five Xbox 360 and PS3 owners did not buy this game. That will change over time ... but given how FPS games tend to sell big and then not much, it won't change by much. (And yes, I am equating sales with user/install base which I realize is not quite correct but in this instance the difference only changes the math, not the point).

I personally wonder what some third parties are diong when they release games that would sell better on the Wii on the HD consoles instead.  Popcap sold very few Plants vs. Zombies on the 360 but it still appears to be releasing Bejewled 3 for Xbox 360 and PS3. That kind of thinking is not smart. (And since those games are on the DS, HD graphcis are not exactly needed for them).  Similarly, I doubt Sonic Generations will fare as well as it would have had it been on the Wii -- every previous Sonic game over multiple consoles this generation has done better on the Wii.

Mike from Morgantown