| Johnw1104 said: Man we as a community can really be condescending and elitist lol This is fine so long as they don't abandon "core gamers" or w/e. The Wii essentially did that from the start, and the Switch seems to clearly be a product of that learned lesson. With the games they've announced and continued 3rd party ports to the system, there's not much to be worried about yet. |
In Wii's first full year on the market alone, releases published by Nintendo included:
"Casual" - Wii Sports, Wii Play, Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree.
"Core" - Twilight Princess, Excite Truck, Super Paper Mario, Pokemon Battle Revolution, Mario Strikers Charged, Metroid Prime 3, DK Barrel Blast, Battalion Wars 2, Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Super Mario Galaxy.
Games People Idiotically Consider "Casual" Even Though The Franchises Far Predate That Stupid Term - Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, Mario Party 8.
The sheer level of "Nintendo abandoned core gamers from the start" in that early release slate, is almost deafening isn't it? Releasing TWO games with the word "Wii ____" in it, is honestly too much. Giving people a mainline Zelda, Excite racing game, Paper Mario, Metroid, Battalion Wars, Fire Emblem, AND 3D Mario game, within the FIRST YEAR OF LAUNCH, is pretty much textbook "ignoring their core audience", right?
Sorry for the snark, but seriously, for all of its flaws, the volume of NINTENDO published Wii games alone, that would fall under the "core" category, far outweighs their "casual" releases on the system. The myth that "Nintendo abandoned the core gamer with DS/Wii", should have died years ago, let alone somehow persisting into 2018. Wii wasn't perfect, and it sure as hell had its flaws as a console, and I was never HUGE on games that forced motion controls on you. But seriously? The Wii had a pretty great library of games, just from Nintendo itself. A Mario Kart, Smash Bros., Fire Emblem, Battalion Wars, Wario Land, Punch Out, 2 Excite racers, Metroid Prime 3 AND Trilogy AND Other M (even though that game was whatever), 2 Kirby releases and a collection release, a new Donkey Kong Country, 2 3D Marios AND the first 2D Mario on a home console in almost two decades, AND technically 2 main-line Zelda games.
Not too shabby for a "casual" console. And certainly a hell of a lot more quality games released for it, first AND third party, than Wii U.
