Wii Turns Two, “Hardcore” Losing Faith
- Scribbled on November 19th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Nintendo Wii
TechRadar is noting that the Wii turns two years old this week, but that the “hardcore” fan base is concerned that Nintendo has abandoned them for its new core casual group, releasing “shovelware” rather than true games.
This Christmas’ two major first party releases – Wii Music and Animal Crossing – (along with a mountain of third party shovelware) have also done little to appease the hardcore faithful.
Despite this, Nintendo’s US Sales and Marketing VP, Cammie Dunaway recently told MTV Multiplayer that she thinks: “next year you’re going to see the tide turn a little bit, in terms of people realizing that the Wii can have something of interest for everybody. I feel there are titles that should make [the core] stand up and pay attention next year.
“If you look at something like The Conduit, that’s really pushing the edge of graphic capabilities on the Wii and doing things that people didn’t think were possible. And I think, one, that makes other developers stand up and take notice. And two, that makes consumers say, ‘maybe there’s something to this’.”
It better change, since the hyped WiiWare has been almost nothing but ported mobile phone games and bland “activities”, save such rare third party releases as World of Goo and Mega Man 9.
November 19th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Nintendo’s games are boring (even Shigeru admits it) and they’re not offering things gamers want. Which is fine, they don’t make games for me anymore… But, then I no longer care what they do…