| RolStoppable said: No, it is really because of the reason I said: It saves both of us a lot of time. That's my modus operanti: Short, succinct, straight to the point. But if you insist on going with the former, here are a couple of problems with your hypothesis: 1. The assumption that each demographic keeps making purchases within their boundaries. In other words, a traditional core gamer would never buy Wii Fit or Wii Sports Resort, for example. Or a Wii Fit/Wii Sports player would never touch Super Mario Galaxy. 2. The informed traditional core. I guess here you are talking more specifically about the gamers who soak up every bit of gaming news and are thus in the know about pretty much every niche title. Basically, we are talking about sales of games that do not get TV commercials. Now eliminate all games with TV commericals from the HD consoles' bestseller list. What you will be looking at will be the same picture as for the Wii. The actual difference between Wii and HD software sales is that third parties bother to make games that match the quality of first party software AND advertise them for the 360 and PS3. If it's on TV, it doesn't take an informed gamer, because TV is the medium that reaches the biggest amount of people.
I also have to respond to this, because it's yet another instance where your bias shines through. About 15 games don't add up to all Nintendo first party games and most niche ones, not even if you restrict the list to traditional core games. Then you say something interesting, that LKS and Muramasa are above everything else. Now the only question is in which way did you mean this? 1. Best games on the system, period. Well, that would be completely personal opinion. No place for this in a discussion that is supposed to be factual. 2. Best games of their respective genre. Again, personal opinion. Especially when LKS gets trounced by the New Play Control releases of Pikmin and Pikmin 2. Muramasa is a sidescrolling action-RPG, but it's about the only one on the system, so I guess you are right. Then again, you classified it as platformer, but if it really were one, it would be up against huge competition on the Wii. Regardless, it's a good example of your agenda. People who share your taste are good and people who don't are lesser gamers that fall into one of three categories:
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1st 1. I never said never. I said closely related and "seldom". Funny how both you and c0rd don't understand the word.
1st 2. Nope, I just mean the regular trad-core who know that games are coming out. People that scour online are hardcore gamers. And wow, get this. Sony and 360 actually help fund their ad campaigns. When a multiplat comes out and it says "jump in" at the end? 100% funded by MS. Too bad Nintendo can't wrap its brain around actually encouraging competition. It's just too bad for you and your point that Nintendo goes out of their way to make sure the only games people know about on the wii are their own platformers. After the past 2 generations, you'd think Nintendo would realize this, unless they were for some reason doing it purposely??
2nd 1. I have the respectable ones. Seeing as how I never updated my games on the profile (I was too embarrassed to admit I played with toys), I'll list them for you. DK, Galaxy, Kirby EY, NSMBWii, Metroid, Twilight Princess, Muramasa, Little Kings story, tiger woods, Smash, cave story, punch out, monster hunter...and I know I'm missing some others....endless ocean 2....silent hill....some naruto game I got as a shitty gift... granted I also have 3 other consoles and a pc, so, sorry that I only have 15+. Now see, my eclectic variety is because I scour for great games. Those are their best games, that is a fact.
2nd 2. Eww, pikmin better than LKS? Now I knows you trollin'. but yes, rpg action sidescroller is a better term for muramasa.
And again, no, I'm not calling you any of those either. I'm saying that there are clear differences in the demographics. It's like milk. It comes in several types. Chocolate, skim, whole, 2%, 1%, soy.
Now people that drink 1 and skim might also drink 2%, as they are very similar. People who drink skim might not drink 2, since 2% is closer to whole the skim, which is very light, and chances are, people drink skim for health and so don't have too much chocolate milk. People drinking soy can't drink anything else.
It's the same. You can pick out the demographics when you put thought into it and say, this percentage are health conscious, that percentage don't drink milk at all, this percentage don't care, etc etc. You COULD do the same with the HD consoles, but instead of saying "this many is the traditional core base" you'd have to say "this many are the shooter fans" etc. Because a majority of the genres are traditional core.
