Words Of Wisdom said:
Shovelware is a new thing to the market Nintendo is now targeting. Gamers know what to avoid (usually), but a lot of the people Nintendo is trying to reach especially in the older and younger crowds don't. There's no one holding up a big neon flashing sign saying "Movie games are usually bad, avoid Cars!" for them. They don't know any better. Just because we've been seeing it and recognizing it for years doesn't mean everyone has. Get off your high horse and recognize you're no longer Nintendo's only target. Your opinions and knowledge don't represent everyone. What do you mean we'd already be seeing signs? Do you think the Wii got the mini-game stigma out of thin air? Where do you think that came from? Developers are starting to put down the Wii saying that their games won't sell/the demographic doesn't suit their needs. Other developers are making all that shovelware and succeeding. These companies making shovelware aren't disappearing, they're growing. A month or two ago we had the thread on the company that was forcasting a hundred or so shovelware games for 2008 because those games are becoming very successful. |
Could you please go into more detail about the sentence I bolded? I realize that a few developers, most notably Epic Games, do feel this way, but it seems to me that the tide is going in the opposite direction. What am I missing?
