| xenophon13 said: So i have been hearing about how the wii is revolutionizing game play and that all things will go the way of the wii. This makes me sad. I personally don't like miis (they are creepy), i am sick of mario and I dont need to work out in front of the frickin tv (since I spend to much time in front of it anyway). dont get me wrong, If you love nintendo, then yay! you have the most popular system...hurrah hurrah! But don't make the MGS and the GTA and the Gears of War and the Oblivion and all the great games go away. What if everyone jumps on the idea of copying the wii and all these games are gone because they are too expensive to produce and you can produce carnival games for a lot less and sell 10 million copies?!? Is anyone else afraid of this? Am I the only one? I could care less if sony or MS or wii actually 'wins' the console war. I do care about having the games i love to play available...and they certainly aren't wii striper pole dance or wii cheerleading or mario dating or carnival games. Anyone else worried? I guess there is always pc gaming if only nintendo and nintendo sycophants remain... |
If these games go away, it's because not enough people were buying them, and that's not something the Wii aided in bringing about.
Before the Wii and DS, gaming sales were on a stark decline. Interest in the market was going away, and that's not just Nintendo sales rhetoric because I knew many "lapsed" gamers who used to be actively involved in the hobby but gradually fell away from it due to general lack of interest. These were people who generally had a PS2 and maybe 2-3 games for it from its entire lifespan.
But they've all bought Wiis, and they're coming back to gaming as a result.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
