| bdbdbd said: @Yushire: The end of gaming as we know it, happened with NES, it also happened when the games went to 3D and it's happening now too. With the difference, that the instance that's driving the change, has no motivation to give up with the old audience. I've explained this to you a few times already, but you still don't seem to understand. Nintendo wants to upstream the new audience. When they do, the new audience buys X amount of the blue ocean/disruptive games, when they move up in tiers, they buy bridged games and when they keep moving up, they end up buying core games. If we assume that the blue ocean audience would be a million in size and everyone would upstream and the core audience would be the same size, but they would go to lower tiers only up to bridged games: You would sell million copies of blue ocean games. You would sell two million copies of bridged games. You would sell two million copies of core games. So, what it would mean is, that the core audience games would get even more profitable to publishers, making even bigger budgets possible, instead of abandoning the "hardcore", in the end Nintendo is saving the "hardcore". So Nintendo isn't abandoning their business strategy, they just continue it. Look at the number of the party games/minigames Nintendo have published in a while. The latest is around 1,5 years old and there's not a new one in sight, outside Wii Sports Resort, which essentially is just a tech demo that you have something to play along Wii Motion Plus (and to boost its sales, of course). We aren't seeing Wii Sports 2, Wii Fit 2 is a remote possibility, but what we will see, is a big number of bridged and core games. The core games aren't going anywhere, the old audience, whose values are "more the same with flashier visuals" just will be the minority in the audience, whose values lie in innovation and gameplay - in the core of videogames. |
Its odd because I post that you commented before I posted this thread, Ninty pushing their core title Wario Land Shake it with free gas, and somehow contradicting my views on whats happening in real world:
http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=43084
I've doop before with Wii Music that its just a waggle fest, thats why I didnt post so much about Wii Music these days.
Though my views can never change I admit my opinions can be easily debunk just by own observation itself. Anyway, I just wait for you to comment on my post, I never post just to debate on this thread again I might just wait for the rumor conference of Ninty before giving any opinions ever again...
P.S. bdbdbd you're sure right, Ninty did promoting and upstreaming the lower tier with their core games, I think we're just blind to see it.
end of core gaming days prediction:
E3 2006-The beginning of the end. Wii introduced
E3 2008- Armageddon. Wii motion plus introduced. Wii Music. Reggie says Animal crossing was a core game. Massive disappointment. many Wii core gamers selling their Wii.
E3 2010- Tape runs out
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/march2009/ICG_Tape_runs_out.jpg
