midrange on 06 December 2015
| Normchacho said: So...I think there is something that needs to be said here. People who game either only, or primarily on Nintendo systems live in an echo chamber. I would know, I spent 12 years living in that echo chamber. What I mean when I say that, is that when something really good comes out that gets Nintendo fans excited, they all freak out. Then, they just assume that because the core Nintendo fanbase really cares about a particular game, or thinks a game is really important, that everyone else cares or thinks the game is really important, because that's all they're hearing. Splatoon is a perfect example. Spaltoon is the best Nintendo exclusive shooter maybe ever. This has meant that for months now we've been hearing about how it's a paradigm shift or a Condorde moment for the FPS genre. The problem with that, is that outside of the Nintendo fanbase...nobody cares. The guy who is buying all the big shooters and spends his weekends playing Zombies or Halo 5 with his friends doesn't care about Splatoon. The guy who's a level 40 in Destiny doesn't care about Splatoon. The normal shooter audience just doesn't care. The same is likely true for XCX, only to a lesser extent. The person who's already 100 hours into Fallout 4 couldn't give two shits about XCX. Neither could the guy who lost two months of his life to The Witcher 3. Those games mean a lot to Nintendo gamers, which no doubt has a lot to do with how well Nintendo knows it's audience, but not all that much to the normal fans of those genres. Splatoon and XCX aren't going to change their respective genres in any meaningful way. |
This is ... surprisingly spot on...
I've noticed this in how my friends, who are into rpgs like bloodborne, witcher, and fallout, don't even know about Xenoblade X
