Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games reaches 4million

[Onyxmeth]

Stever89 said:

Onyxmeth said:

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Keep telling myself what? That popularity and continued strong sales of minigames on the Wii will not encourage more minigames on the Wii? I must be wrong, because everyone knows Halo didn't start a thousand copycats on the Xbox and Brain Age didn't start a thousand copycats on the DS. We also haven't heard countless developers saying they want to wet their feet in the Wii with something "casual".

 

Well then you need to remember that it's not the old demographic that are buying these games, it's a new demographic. That's called expanding the market, meaning there's going to be enough room to go around for both traditional games mainstream games.

@stof: Fuck yeah. I guess games shouldn't be fun anymore?

I'm well aware that it's expanding the market. It wasn't my point. My point was, third parties don't have endless funds and if they see a pattern that works(i.e. minigames), may start to pursue it more. That means more and more development time for minigames and less time for other genres. It may make the expanded market happy, but not me. I would like the Wii to have that great line-up the PS2 had last generation, which didn't include at anytime minigame collections that were swaying developers' opinions on what to make.