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Soundwave on 30 October 2012
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Immortal said:
Soundwave said:


If you can't dilineate between the design appeal/aesthetic of Animal Crossing, Super Mario, Pokemon, Mickey Mouse, Lego versus say James Bond, Resident Evil, Turok, 1080 Snowboarding, Perfect Dark, Eternal Darkness, etc. then sure, this thread is probably lost on you.

For everyone else, have at it.

And the appeal of the first GoldenEye directly lead to Activision making GoldenEye (2010) on the Wii, which is one of the best selling non-family-oriented games on the console.


I can certainly differentiate between James Bond and Mario, but I can't categorize all games so simply into two groups of "family-oriented" and "hardcore".

I'd contest that there's as much difference between the audiences for 1080 Snowboarding and Resident Evil as there is between, say, Pokemon and Just Dance. I doubt I'm the only one here who thinks this way and I highly doubt that the sales of games work that way, making this thread seem rather silly to me.

@happydolphin I'm not sure I can even agree that there is a witchhunt. Of course, that may be because I'm part of it, but I really don't see any reason for which you should be so passionately against anyone who's on the other side of this "casual Nintendo" argument. You find us overly defensive and dismissive of any arguments against Nintendo and we find you ridiculous in your arguments. There's nothing objectively wrong with us that I can concede we need to improve.

Regardless, telling people off really never helps, :P. No one's gonna concede that they've been doing something wrong when you just outright say it to them like that.

Then this thread isn't for you, just leave it at that.

This is to focus on games on Nintendo consoles that do not have the benefit of a family-friendly/cartoony design nature and to look at how they've performed historically. Simple as that. No need to get defensive about it.

We know Mario is great and Just Dance sells like gangbusters on the Wii, OK? This thread is focusing on other types of games. It's relevant today because Nintendo is attempting to broaden their demographic appeal very obviously with the Wii U (at least to some extent).

If you have suggestion of a game that you feel should be added within the criteria clearly laid out in the OP I'll be happy to add it to the list if warranted, which I already have done with several other suggestions from other posters.