The warning is that Nintendo has many titles it is ready, willing and able to develop and it could release them en masse until the cows come home. This would increase Wii demand (while lessening demand for the competition). It would also help move gamers away from Wii Sports Clones and several-year old Pitfall PS2 ports that Activision is trying to sell to better games.

In other words, Nintendo has plenty up its sleeves.

Mike from Morgantown

Oooh, sounds fun :p.

The main problem for 3rd parties is Wii's power. Had it been more powerful (even half as powerful as PS3/360), we wouldn't have this discussion.

Yes, they have lost the last "exclusive" hardcore gamers I believe. No true hardcore gamer could probably gotten enough with the Wii only this year, since there hasn't been anything coming out. Hardcore gamers who game a lot probably have gotten a secondary console and started gaming more on it.

Still things from 1st party titles arent looking good, 2009 looks like it's going to be the worst year ever with only GC ports, Wii Sports Resort and possibly, if Reggie doesnt interfere, S&P 2 and Punch Out.

Nonetheless, there's people who only own a Wii and are core gamers with little time to game. They could be put in the core gamers that play casually category. I'm included there. I got enough with my Wii, but this year was terribly poor. 2009 is only getting worse, but at least 3rd parties are stepping up next year.

I hold firm to my prediction that 2010 will be the year of the Wii.

2006 was the launch year, so we got enough games, 2007 was the year of the 1st party games, 2008 was the worst year ever for any console IMO, 2009 will be the year of the third party games and the worst year ever from a first party perspective. Lastly 2010 will be the year of the Wii. With excellent 3rd party and finally some games from Nintendo (At least that's what I hope, since next year with the real small amount of games Nintendo is launching, one can only believe they are gonna relelase them in 2010)

If by 2010 Nintendo keeps on ignoring their fans, then not only they would have lost the hardcore gamers, but also their longtime fans. Anyways they will have a huge userbase of casual gamers.

Most, if not all popular games, are casual to an extent. Some also have a strong hardcore following. Mario fits into this category, so does Halo and Zelda - if to a lesser extent.

The either/or argument is pretty silly. There is only a handful of games that are so niche that can be termed hardcore only. More games are either casual/hardcore or casual.

Having similar graphical capabilities and conventional controls didn't help the little purple cube.

Can we have an insta-ban on anyone using the word hardcore... Unless it's to describe everybody's favorite genre of movie of course

Please check this:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=341519

Its another waaah, Nintendo isn't catering to my needs editorial, well you want to know why they aren't because the "core gamers" abandoned them years ago, during the last two gaming eras, they went to the Playstation one and 2a nd then later also to the Xbox, leaving the N64 and GCN to wither and die. Nitnendo realized that fighting over that segment was a losing path and went elsewhere, and now thatits the hot system and the 360 and PS3 are lagging behind they are upset that Nintendo isn't doing what they want.

Its like dumping a girl because you thnk she's fat and then seeing her years later looking hot and getting angry and jealous that she's dating some other guy.

Any "core gamer" who is upset should direct their anger at the third parties if they feel that the Wii doesn't have games for them, that is the role of the third party, not Nintendo

alfredofroylan, you're a bad person. To make up for it, you could send my the thousands of dollars I'm going to want to spend next year on Wii games

Please?