| Sky Render said: Inevitably, the transition from NES/SNES/PS1/PS2-era consoles to this new style of system is generating a lot of resentment, the same way the transition from Atari/PC-era to NES/SNES/PS1/PS2-era led to a lot of upset from the established gaming crowd (an upset that remains to this day; how many PC gamers out there still declare all consoles to be a fad, and predict the return to PC gaming to be coming 'any day now'?). The big difference being, the market at large crashed in 1983, while the market as of 2006 was only showing the beginning signs of strain heading towards a potential crash. So there are a heck of a lot more NES/SNES/PS1/PS2-era gamers out there who see no need to transition to a new format than there were Atari/PC-era gamers who saw no need. |
Maybe not totally accurate, in my case at least. I had lots of fun in the NES/SNES days, as games were pretty straight forward for the most part, something you could just kinda pick up whenever, and weren't overly complex. The PS1/PS2 era though saw the start of more in depth things, which really made me lose interest pretty fast. With the Wii though, a lot of that simplistic yet fun style was reintroduced in a fresh way, which is what really grabbed me.
I imagine a lot of Nintendo's current success is just that.. people who already play games buying one, people who gave up on games a while back becoming interested again, and also grabbing those who hadn't played it before. I think the term Nintendo used for people like me was 'lapsed gamers' or something, if I remember correctly.
