Megadude said:
Relax bro.
To answer your question there isn't a problem with people enjoying Wii fit. I have a problem with with Wii fit outselling MadWorld 21 to one. I want to see less Wii Fit and more Madworld. Not no Wii Fit but not more. But when Wii fit sells 11-12 million and madworld sells 50-60 thousand copies what do you think will happen?
Why do you think the next Zelda Wii hasn't been announced? Because Nintendo is not compelled. Think about it. Gamecube got 2 zeldas in 5 years. Excluding a Gamecube port the Wii has 0.
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Hold on. I'm going to savor you taking that many of my posts and replying to the only one that didn't contain an argument in it. Hold on, I'm going to quote them at you now that I have your attention. This is me:
Oh so it is about the Wii selling "shovelware", I see. Why do you keep changing your mind? Were you okay with people having different value sets ten minutes ago, but you aren't now? What happened in the interim? You are being neither consistent nor logical inn your viewpoint, and you are not actually making any supporting arguments.
You seem to be confused as to exactly what your message is supposed to be, here, or else you are dropping points as we go along because they make no sense whatsoever.
You want new, interesting, and quality games on the Wii? Go pre-order Little King's Story, go buy Rune Factory: Frontier, sit down with World of Goo, scrounge up Zack and Wiki, then come back to me. You dig?
That's all I'll quote from myself for now.
Basically you are saying that you don't want games like Wii Fit to dominate.
Too late. Games like Wii Fit are redefining the market. People who want what Wii Fit offers, what Carnival Games offers, what Wii Sports offers, what Wii Music offers? They are the new powers in the industry. They are why Link's Crossbow Training is going to outsell MGS4 within eight weeks from now. They want what Nintendo is giving them, and they are legion. You don't like it? Get used to it anyway, because this trend is here to stay for the foreseeable future.
You think that Wii Fit is going to outsell Mad World 21-to-1? If Mad World ever made it to a million, Wii Fit would have broken thirty million by that point. It is selling more every two months than some people predict Madworld will sell in its entire shelf life. Estimates put it finishing at 25 million as a bare minimum. There's speculation that it may outsell the PS3. That a game will outsell an entire rival platform, something that is unprecedented in the history of the industry (when you consider that the NES had no real competition). Nintendo has tapped into a market which will give them so much money that they are almost literally invincible.
No, core gaming will not go away, because making those games ends up getting Ninteno a lot of money, too. The return on investment for Twilight Princess, Galaxy, Brawl, MKWii? Huge. They make tremendous amounts of money off of these franchises and will continue to produce them for that reason: the continued, paying loyalty of a certain segment of their customer base.
Now, do I care that Wii Fit outsells Mad World by at least 50-to-1 by the time both of them are done selling? No. I don't. because my perspective on the gaming industry allows for other people with their own money to partake even if they don't share my views, my opinions, or my buying habits.
Trying to convince people to buy "real" games isn't just futile, it's insipid. It would be like trying to convince them to buy "real" moves or "real" books - "don't pick up that Tom Clancy novel, you mainstream fool, don't you know what you're getting into!?" you might say, and it would be just as ridiculous as what you are suggesting here.
The meaning of what defines a good game is no longer in the same hands as it once was. Get used to it. This ride isn't over yet.
