theRepublic said:
lilbroex said:
theRepublic said:
lilbroex said:
A system can only have "1" killer app just as a painter can only have 1 msterpiece. A killer app refers to the game that pushes the system to is maximum potential or as close as it can be gotten to.
Nintendo has never maxed out one of there system, ever. All killer apps on Nintendo systems have been made by third parties.
How much something sells does not determine if it is a killer app.
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What?
A killer app is the application that makes people want to buy a product. It has nothing to do with maxing out a video game console.
It really doesn't need to be limited to one either. However, if you insist on limiting it to one, then Wii Sports is clearly the killer app for the Wii.
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Me and you seem to have received two completely different definitions of the words killer app.
Though, even by the definiton that you are using, Wii Sports wouldn't fit because people didn't by the Wii "for" Wii Sports. The closest thing I can think of to being a killer app for the Wii is Super Smash Brothers Brawl
The defintion you are using refers to the 1 game above all else that would drive people to buy the game. The word refers specifically to that one piece of software that drives people to buy a piece of hardware morso than anything other.
I suppose I could have confused those words with something similar. Oh well.
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I wouldn't even put Smash Bros in the top four killer apps for the Wii. Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and Mario Kart are the games that drove the Wii to record breaking sales from 2006 - 2008.
1. Wii Sports
2. Mario Kart Wii
3. Wii Fit
4. NSMB Wii
Smash Bros might make it as number 5, but I would have to think about it more.
"The word refers specifically to that one piece of software that drives people to buy a piece of hardware morso than anything other."
Yes, that is exactly it.
It has nothing to do with graphics or maxing out a systems capabilities. If people are using it that way, then they have twisted the original meaning. I have seen the same twisting with the phrase "AAA" too. These terms have nothing to do with graphics, but the games that do fit those meanings tend to have high production values. People who didn't understand the meaning have just taken to using them to mean "great looking game".
(As an aside, AAA really means a game that is guaranteed to bring in a ton of money for the company making it. Thus it justifies a higher budget for itself, and has high production values.)
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How much it sold does not determine if its a killer app. It is determined by how many people bought the system "for the software". Nobody felt that they had to get Wii Sport. Smash Brothers on the other hand brought a lot of first timers to the system.
