Everyone is thinking whatever is good for business is good for them, I don’t get this logic, why do you attack opinions with business logic? I understand that some things should be viewed as business and not opinions and yet you bring up the whining, bitter hardcore gamers constantly, you’re just rubbing dirt in their wounds pretending the dog eat dog world is a good thing.
Hahaha, stupid hardcore gamers!
Hey, fuck you malstrom!
Why so offended? It’s just business.
The truth is the 3rd parties are doing everything right and still failing, no amazing game for casuals released for the console will sell unless it’s a Mario game. Nintendo is using the strategy of luck and fads, no true innovation is coming from them. The core market is stable, the casual market is stable, the glamorized nintendo market will rejoin the core. Are they going to release the Wii forever, actually, that’s a great strategy or do they really got those girls and grandmas hooked on strong enough for the Wii2? Maybe like a lot of 3rd party developers they’ll assume their consumer base is dumb enough for any of that. They are going to have to become a part of the core, make some fans and step in and stop the crap games for any of that.
The Wii will turn gaming into such a grey mush of mediocrity and the core consoles maybe if they actually accomplish anything will be beacon of light out of those peoples dark world. People will be totally wowed by the next generation of consoles in a way cheap motion sensing can’t do unless the Wii makes something with 360/PS3 graphics. I know, I know, graphics whores but NEVER underestimate pretty, shiny things.
There’s only so many magic tricks they can pull, I think motion sensing might be a strong feature in the future and more than a fad on any other console than the Wii, it’s a fad for Nintendo but I see it better used on other consoles. I’m saying is motion sensing is a great idea, Nintendo did it wrong and fooled people about it but what other good idea in theory will they fool people with? Motion sensing was not some simple novelty they pulled out their ass no better than any other, it was actually a good idea but it was just a perfect opportunity to get people in, I can’t believe there could be something as convincing as motion sensing made again. I can just imagine a future where Nintendo is dominant and then some cheap chinese console comes in and gives them a good fight, that’s how toys work.
Also, please remove the religious undertones from your articles, you’re creating an internet Christianity and we don’t need another shitty religion.
I’m not even angry you, well I am.
You know what, all of gaming is dead, it will be a zombie corpse living forever in some insane backwards world of human fickleness picking the hottest fad of the month until when the internet is big enough and MMO’s will obliterate it , enjoy your horde of WoW players.
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You ask why I use business logic so much? We don’t have a choice as all Industry news is about the “Industry”. No one talks about games anymore. The “Industry” chatting about itself in terms of sales, in terms of advertising, or whatever is business. Now, we have a choice. We can either use conjecture to help explain what is going on or we can use real business logic from real business books. I prefer to do the latter. If we are going to talk about business, then lets talk about business for real. We don’t need useless conjecture and bean counters. There is a reason why bean counters do not run companies.
You’re imagining the ‘religious undertones’. If this is about the ‘Handel’ Hallejulah vid, I was trying to make a cute comment about Mario 5 in Japan with Christmas spirit type music. In Star Control 2, the Pkunk go ‘hallejulah’ when their ship magically re-appears, and I don’t think anyone thinks that is a devious “religious undertone”.
And no, Core Gaming is not stable. It is in big trouble. This is why the Core Gaming companies, like Take 2, are drowning in red ink. If Core Gaming was doing so well, it would be growing in numbers of gamers (it isn’t) and it would be growing financially (it is in the red).
Japanese companies tend not to do ‘fads’. Unlike their western counterparts, Japanese companies tend to look at things in a more long term view. This is why Sony made a “future proof” PS3. Nintendo truly believes gaming is in decline which is why they are taking the odd steps they did with the DS and Wii.
Why isn’t the DS a fad like the Wii is? The Wii and DS are very similar after all. I’m amazed how the DS enters some sort of ‘void’ when it comes time to talk about how the Wii is ‘doomed’.
The Wii ‘fad’ was supposed to end in 2007. It didn’t. It was supposed to end in 2008. It didn’t. It was supposed to end in 2009. It didn’t. If 2007, 2008, and 2009 didn’t have the Wii doomed, then why think 2010, 2011, and 2012 are going to be any different?
You know what you need. You need Wii Relax, the coolest video game to come out. In it, you insert your finger into a device, like this:
Above: The Future of Gaming
Wii Relax is exactly what you need, emailer. With Wii Relax, you will not be aggravated as much. You will smile more. You will enjoy life.
My only peeve about Wii Relax is that Nintendo finally designed a game for the hardcore in mind. Will the hardcore appreciate this game being made just for them? No. They’ll probably declare it the End of Gaming Version 3.0.