| JWeinCom said: I'm just not into their first party games. They are typically competently made, but they've never really added anything new or exceptional (with a few exceptions). Some games are just down right shamelessly derivative (Sports Champions, PSASBR), Everybody Dance, Move in general). |
That you don't like their first party games is of course undebatable as its your opinion and I can't/won't try to change that.
But referring to some of their games as "shamelessly derivative"... Why?
Yes, 4-player beat 'em up games like PSASBR (PS3) and Kung Fu Chaos (Xbox) are clearly inspired by SMB (the genre was invented long before SMB though).
But that doesn't make them "shameless" imo. Would you refer to Tekken as shameless as well or every other game that is inspired by another game? Inspiration goes all ways my friend. Nothing wrong about that.
The Wii and the "Wii" series of games that went on to sell over 200 mill combined are one of Nintendo's biggest successes ever but at the same time a product of Nintendo being inspired by the PlayStation Eyetoy tech and series of games.
EyeToy Play Sports (motion controlled boxing, tennis, etc) -> Wii Sports (motion controlled boxing, tennis, etc)
EyeToy Play (motion controlled minigames) -> Wii Play (motion controlled minigames)
EyeToy Kinetic (motion controlled exercise game) -> Wii Fit (motion controlled exercise game)
EyeToy Monkey Mania (motion controlled party games) -> Wii Party (motion controlled party games)
EyeToy Groove (motion controlled rythm game) -> We Dance (motion controlled rythm game)
