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Forums - Nintendo - Yet another rubbish opinion on why the Wii will fail

Faxanadu on 04 December 2007
RolStoppable said:
Grey Acumen said:
Cause, y'know, history has shown that people who have 5 movies in their DVD collection just stop buying movies after that.


I have bought 1 DVD movie in my life. It's the only DVD movie I own, I didn't get any as a gift.

Then again I don't own a DVD player (besides the drive in my PC).


Ha, I just beat you! Two weeks ago I bought the first TWO DVDs of my life!!!! Total ownage. 



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gamingdevil on 04 December 2007
Girl Gamer Elite said:
Technophiles need to stick to the Pc and stop trying to hijack console gaming.

 QFT!

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Garcian Smith on 04 December 2007

So just how successful does something have to be before one must cease to label it as a "fad" or "flash in a pan"?



"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."

 -Sean Malstrom

 

 

Words Of Wisdom on 04 December 2007
Garcian Smith said:
So just how successful does something have to be before one must cease to label it as a "fad" or "flash in a pan"?

I'm thinking 200 million consoles sold would do it.



cAPSLOCK on 04 December 2007
Words Of Wisdom said:
Garcian Smith said:
So just how successful does something have to be before one must cease to label it as a "fad" or "flash in a pan"?

I'm thinking 200 million consoles sold would do it.


 Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.



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Words Of Wisdom on 04 December 2007
cAPSLOCK said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Garcian Smith said:
So just how successful does something have to be before one must cease to label it as a "fad" or "flash in a pan"?

I'm thinking 200 million consoles sold would do it.


Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.


Don't underestimate it, plan for it.



DarkNight_DS on 04 December 2007
cringer8 said:
It's not like Nintendo is CREATING a casual gaming market. They just wanted to capitalize on an already-existing casual market. Online puzzle games have been selling like hotcakes for years now. Almost every parent has played HOURS of Solitaire or Minesweeper. The casual gamers have always been there.

And casual gamers spend lots of money on games. They always have and always will. Now they can have a console to satisify that need.

That's why I have always said that Microsoft should advertise the hell out of Live Arcade. That service would make some of these casual gamers EXTREMELY happy.

 When I borrowed a friends 360 and played it for the weekend the most fun I had was with the Arcade games.  The biggest problem I had though was that for such simple games you're stuck using such a complicated controller.  Sure for me it was fine but I don't know if most people would feel that way.  Also the other problem I've noticed is that Arcade games come very few and far between.  The system's been out for 2 years and there is only just over 100 games released on it.  To be a really compelling system to casual gamers, the entry price needs to be cheaper, the games need to be advertised better and they just need more games or the promise of a lot of games coming.

I'm really surprised with the fact that no one is taking Nintendo on in the education area.  If the 360 had some educational fun games like Big Brain Academy on the Arcade and it was advertised as much, I could see it taking off.  

Now I realize Nintendo doesn't even have it's own service available yet (WiiWare) but it already has a ton of VC content which is pretty hard to compete with quality wise.  We don't know enough yet about what to expect from the Wiiware titles so as it stands Nintendo leads with amount of downloadable games to purchase but loses on originality.  Not that I think many people could care less about.  A good game is still a good game.

Anyway I agree with you completely, Microsoft is missing a huge opertunity to strike Nintendo where it's currently weak.  Why it hasn't done this is beyond me... 



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DarkNight_DS on 04 December 2007
Words Of Wisdom said:
Garcian Smith said:
So just how successful does something have to be before one must cease to label it as a "fad" or "flash in a pan"?

I'm thinking 200 million consoles sold would do it.


 I don't know... some people still argue that the PS2 was a fad and that no real games were made for it, all the real games were on the 360 and PC.  I definately don't agree, but you'll never convince everyone, no matter how successfull you are.



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alpha_dk on 04 December 2007

The most surprising thing (to me) about this article is that it doesn't win Wii Bingo. Only 11 squares filled total, and not in such a way that bingo is won

Also, remember back when any of these arguments would have held water? Good times.



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Words Of Wisdom on 04 December 2007
DarkNight_DS said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
Garcian Smith said:
So just how successful does something have to be before one must cease to label it as a "fad" or "flash in a pan"?

I'm thinking 200 million consoles sold would do it.


I don't know... some people still argue that the PS2 was a fad and that no real games were made for it, all the real games were on the 360 and PC. I definately don't agree, but you'll never convince everyone, no matter how successfull you are.


Meh.  People are a fad.