| Voice0fReason said: Anyone who thinks Nintendo created the casual market with the Wii hasnt got a clue what they are talking about. Sorry but its just a fact. Casuals bought up the PS1 and PS2 and have been around since the days of Space Invaders. Surely you arent going to try to tell me PS2 got to 150 sold off just hardcore gamers and they suddenly vanished. More copies of Rugrats were sold on PS2 than copies of God of War sold. There are of course other examples of the majority of PS2 owners being casual. The guys opinion is invalid now because he is using personal opinion in place of facts. As far as new IP's from Nintendo you have Wii Sports, Disaster, Xenoblade, Pandoras Tower and a few other Wiiware and DS/3DS games. Everytime they create a new IP, people claiming to be NIntendo fans act like those games do not exist and Nintendo sees people pretending they do not exist and sees no reason to waste money on them. If people want more new IP's from Nintendo then they need to stop pretending the new ones they have dont exist. |
Think about it, the Wii did not take the PS2 owners from Sony. The Xbox and PS3 have over 140 million consoles sold between the both of them. Their consoles will sell into next year and slow down around Christmas, but definitely meet the 150 million mark and surpass it some. Casuals on the Wii are different from the casuals on the PS3 and 360, those are multimedia casuals who have more utility from those console than they would with a Wii. The Wii only has the console and the wii motes so if the novelty wares off its utility vanishes in a short span of time.
Nintendo created an entirely new audience which with all consoles sold together were more than last gen. They increased the market of gaming by about fifty million. Again, lets see how many of those stick around. Wii Sports is more a tutorial to show how their peripheral works and so is Nintendo Land (which at times you must still have the Wii mote for). If you want to count that as a real new IP then thats perfectly fine.
