| Legend11 said: The part I highlighted says it all... Core gamers on the Nintendo better prepare themselves for the "new approach" on the system or face disappointment. What does that mean? Well anyone reading between the lines will take it as meaning more "casual" games on that system at the expense of "hardcore" games. |
Nintendo can make all the non-game, casual messes they want: I won't play those games.
Godfather Wii used the "new approach" to make violence wonderfully tactile. Manhunt 2 aims to do the same thing as you saw a guy in half with a Wiimote.
My "most anticipated" list consists of "gamer" games made by 3rd parties, and contrary to previous generations, those games are actually coming.
Nintendo doesn't need to make those games when 3rd parties are going to do so instead.
And that kills two birds with one stone because then people will stop bitching about Nintendo consoles only selling Nintendo games because 3rd parties have an open market to fill with so few 1st party "gamer" games being released.
I'll still buy Nintendo's 1st party gamer games, but between their releases, I'm going to buy RE: UC, Ghost Squad, FF: Crystal Bearers, DQ: Swords, Manhunt 2 and anything else which looks like I might enjoy it.
"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
