artur-fernand on 14 June 2013
| Gamerace said: LOL!!! Are you kidding me?! You are truly blind if you cannot see the fundamental shift the Wii/DS caused. It brought the mass market into the gaming sphere. And they are still here and GROWING. True, Nintendo all but abandoned their own 'blue ocean' strategy after 2010/11 instead relying on retro games more and more (NSMB, M:oM, DCKR, Kirby, Kirby, Kirby, NSMB2, Mario Kart 7, etc., etc) But what Nintendo started Apple perfected and Android adopted and that market is quickly outstripping the traditional console market with it's simple swipe/touch controls. Successful mobile devs are racking in 10's of millions while traditional console devs struggle to stay in the black. Soon they'll be buying them up and converting them (like TenCent buying shares in Epic). The Revolution is here to stay. Nintendo just failed to stay on the wave. |
What? You completely missed the point. Yes, the Wii and DS appealed to the non-gamers, but if you ask me, the casual crowd is lost to smartphones and tablets.
I'm talking about the motion controls. What difference did that make to gaming general? In fact, think about the best games of the generation and then think if they use motion controls and HOW they use it (does it really change the gaming experience in an unique way?).
