Ninty will upstream the market. the question is... HOW? Care anyone explain

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Bored4life said:

 1) I'm not finished.I think I said that.

2) Using remote in different ways is not upstreaming it's downstreaming to show the stubborn hardcore that there is more to life than analog sticks and Dpad.The downmarket was introduced to gaming through these games so their is no upstreaming.The controls might be more rubust but the user experience is the same.Upstreaming games are SMB,Brawl and MK:Wii

3)I never said that downstreaming doesn't occur.Look at the OP's post and you will see that he has barely a clue on the issue. Information overload is a recipe for confusion.I'm taking my time with my typing and thinking how best to relate my next point.

I thought you were going to post if discussion gets running. Well, anyway, great posts and i forgot to say last time that welcome to VGChartz.



The reason why i didn't count Wii Sports and Mario Party for the same level introductionary games, is because of the level of realism in the games. Wii Sports introduces real life sports played in real life fashion. When Mario Party is a step forward with introducing the similar control mechanics in the videogaming, fantasy, world. The problem it also tries to fight is, that outside Wii Sports, everything else is seen as kids stuff, Wii Sports being the only adults game. By making this important transition (WS->MP8/WW), it lures the new audience "out of their boxes", into the videogames world.

@Yushire: Listen to Louie.
The problem with 3rd parties is, that they walk a step behind Nintendo. Nintendo has planned its strategy years advance and 3rd parties just try to play catch-up, which mean they always are step behind.
Look at RRR, it's success wasn't based on it being a party game, it's success was because it was released at the same time with Nintendos own similar releases.
Now when you look at some 3rd party games, such as the two Resident Evil games, although they are from popular franchise, other is a two-year old port and the other is a spinoff, both still have shelf space at retail and both are still selling. 3rd parties build their own market on Wii, by releasing games in the genre they like and infiltrating the market Nintendo has generated with its own high profile releases. There wasn't much space for competition in platformers when SMG came out, but releasing a platformer today, would lead to good sales, since people who wanted SMG 6 months ago, are in need for a new platformer. Basically how it's going to happen this on is, that when Nintendo releases a big game in genre X, 3rd parties follow with a game in the same genre with a 6 months to a year delay. Each of them are not going to top Nintendo, but they make a lot of high selling games. If they would want to top Nintendo, they would need to be a step ahead of them (like Capcom was).
When you look at the number of shooters Wii has, expect CoD5 to be a first week million seller on Wii.