Soundwave said:
You'll probably find what I've said is pretty polite. The system wars stuff is silly really, though. We know PS4/720 are going to be more powerful than the Wii U. We know Sony/MS hold the hardcore demographic almost entirely in their hands. Nintendo's goal I don't think is to compete against Sony/MS. They just don't want to be so incredibly one dimensional, because that can be problematic for their business ... what happens when you end up with a Wii Music instead of a Wii Fit? Wii sales drop. That was a problem Nintendo realized, casual gamers are fickle and unpredictable and go running elsewhere (see: iPad becoming the new hot thing). That's what I think Nintendo's aim with Wii U is. It's still going to be the mass market/casual centric/family oriented console, but they would like to have a little more presence with the hardcore set because it's a much more predictable/reliable demographic. But at the same time, I don't think Nintendo is willing to engage MS/Sony directly to get that because they don't want to get into a spending war. |
"kid" is probably the key term ...
I hate shopping for games for my XBox 360 because I always think people will assume I'm some sort of creepy paedophile being that I'm (usually) the only one older than 14 in the XBox 360 section. The Wii section seems (fairly) empty now, but when the Wii was new there were a lot of people in my age group in the area (late 20s early 30s).
While there are always exceptions, older gamers tend not to be as graphics obsessed as younger gamers because we can remember playing games on the NES or Atari.
