| Zero999 said: What i see is that pre wii nintendo consoles were used by the children/teenagers of the house, just like any system. when the wii came, the tradicional audience kept using it and playng the tradicional "core" games, the difference is that the adults and even elderly of the house used the system too. there were the new kind of simpler "casual" games starting with the wii. were they more succesfull than "core" titles on the wii? definetely were the core titles less sucessfull than previous nintendo consoles? NO nintendo core franchises sold more than ever on the wii and a huge number of core third party titles sold at least 500k. if anything, the core audience was raised on the wii. |
I think you're reaching there. Most people did buy the Wii to have a casual/party game experience.
But pretty much every core gamer augmented the Wii by also having either a PS3/360 for games like Call of Duty, Bio Shock, Arkham Asylum, Red Dead Revolver, GTAIV, Dead Rising, Battlefield 3, Madden NFL, FIFA, etc. etc. etc.
Also not all Nintendo franchises really benefitted all that much from the Wii userbase. Mario certainly did, but Mario is a very good "bridge" title. A lot of Nintendo's more "hardcore" franchises though -- Zelda, Metroid, etc. really didn't sell any better than they did on the N64 or GCN days, certainly not relative to the increase in userbase. Things like The Last Story and Xenoblade had such a limited market, that NOA didn't even bother to localize them initially (they eventually gave in to a very limited Xenoblade print run).
