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happydolphin on 20 January 2012
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Mr Khan said:
HappySqurriel said:
Seece said:
HappySqurriel said:
Seece said:

Look above, prof laid it out nicely for you.

But I'm surprised Nintendo fans here even debate this, i thought they would readily admit this themselves. Look at the Wii's library compared to the gamecubes ...

I imagin a lot of those gamecube owners are very unhappy this gen, and I doubt the Wii pulled many core gamers from the PS2 and Xbox crowd.


To be upset by the lack of games of a certain type wouldn't these "real gamers" have to be interested in the platform?

No? Don't have to own a platform to be disappointed with it ... especially as from the get go Wii looked like a big depature from typical Nintendo home consoles, something that would have put core ninty fans on alert.

You don't have to own a console to be disappointed with it, but you can’t be disappointed in something you don’t have any interest in.

I have no interest in the Twilight book series, outside of details that I have encountered by accident I know nothing of the series because I haven't bothered to look into it. No matter how bad other people say it is, or how much damage they claim it has done, I would never consider myself disappointed with it because I have no interest in it.

 

In my opinion it is completely fair to say that (after years of neglect by third party publishers) gamers have lost interest in the Wii, or that many gamers were disappointed because the Wii did not live up to its potential, but saying that they had no interest in it is clearly false.

Exactly, but the key here is gamers as a whole reacting to the general dearth of content on Wii in 2011-2012, not this "core gamer-everyone else" nonsense

The term "core" is not nonesense. Some are probably in denial because the term was incorrectly used to bash the Wii.It was probably incorrectly equated to "Violent FPS shooter and oversexualized fighter game players".

The trad core gamer, we all know what it is, we all know it exists, we just don't know how to define it.. I like to define it as a person that is serious about his/her games, and is dedicating committed time to playing them, no matter the genre liked. But one thing is for sure, a poseur is not a trad core gamer. If we define a poseur, we could more easily define what a trad core gamer is not.

Having said all that, there seem to be two judging categories, and I provided them in my last post. The barometers for them, imho, are Smash-Halo for the strict verdict, and NSMBWii-COD for the loose verdict. The reason is NSMBWii gamers may be serious gamers, but probably not as serious as say a dedicated Smash fan. COD, the reason why it's loose is because we have a lot of marketing for that game, a lot of word of mouth, so lots of people play that game because others do (either casual gamers or poseurs, your pick), but some though they are less dedicated than say a Halo fan, will play their COD in dedication.

One thing is certain is that no matter which barometer used, the rules apply to all console makers, and with that it's impossible to say one console maker lost interest from the trad core audience.