Nintendo just aiming for the Casual Gamers?

Tyranitar24 | June 30, 2008 | News | Wii Company

Matt Banks lists some reasons why hardcore gamers may have problems with Nintendo, some include calling people who play flash games for an extended period of time a hardcore gamer, as well as calling people who need extra storage "geeks and otaku".

With E3 around the corner, everyone can speculate all they want about whats really coming, but no one knows for sure. Nintendo needs to live up their word of satisfying the core gamer. Up until now, theyve essentially left hardcore gamers on the back burner. Casual is what theyre aiming for, but neglecting those who got you here wont help.

What bothers me about this is Nintendos definition of a core gamer. Back in early May, Nintendo Senior Marketing Director in Europe, Laurent Fischer, stated that people who spend ten hours or more on an internet flash game are core gamers. Really? I know a ton of people who play quirky flash games for countless hours a week at work to pass the time, yet none of these people would touch a gaming console. To consider them core gamers make me seriously question what Nintendo will be presenting at E3.

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Big A2 | July 01, 2008

Most of this article is about the crappy Wi-Fi. Let's hope this new "pay to play" thing will mean better online services, or you could just invite friends over and play lag free!

Anyway, if Nintendo had forgotten the hardcore gamer, there would be no Virtual Console and definitely no Wii Ware. Sure you can quote "Geeks and Otaku" as much as you want, but that's one Nintendo of Europe representative, it's Nintendo of Japan who makes the games, and the big dissisions.
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  Fatal Error | July 01, 2008
  
  IF Virtual Console was really all they bragged it would be before the Wii was released, they'd actually have all the good games people really want out by now.
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    black doom | July 01, 2008
    
    I am happier to get them out slowly rather than having to wait an age for the Wii and get them all at once. We would probably still be waiting that way. And do you think they translated Sin and Punishment for the casual audience?
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      Fatal Error | July 01, 2008
      
      I don't see where I mentioned any "casual audience". I'm talking about the games that everyone wants, and quite frankly it shouldn't take them any time at all to come up with these games. The Wii has a built in emulator; it really isn't difficult to convert these games into a format for such use, in particular the NES and SNES ones.
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    Big A2 | July 02, 2008
    
    Well really, the only ones people are desperate for is Earthbound (confirmed to be comming to Japan this month) and Super Mario RPG (confirmed to be comming everywhere soon).
    
    I really do hope Earthbound makes it to Australia, since it was never realsed here in the first place.
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      Fatal Error | July 02, 2008
      
      Earthbound really wasn't that good of a game. I think everyone just got hardons when Ness was on SSB and such...Actually, it's kinda the same thing that happened with Pikmin and Kid Icarus.=/
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      Big A2 | July 02, 2008
      
      That's the most redicoulos thing I've ever read. Earthbound was a great game, why else do you think they're were heaps of screaming fanboys when they found out Mother 3 wasn't comming to the US?
      
      And the "hardon" thing, I really don't see what you're trying to say with that.
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      Fatal Error | July 02, 2008
      
      The original Earthbound was a relatively plain game without much to get excited about. People only started hyping it up and such with the introduction of Ness in SSB, much the same way as the other games I listed. How hard is that to understand? How many people were really hyping any of these series before SSB was released? You're a fool to think otherwise, really.
      
      Also if you don't understand what a "hardon" is then you're obviously too young to even remember the original Earthbound.
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      Big A2 | July 09, 2008
      
      I know what a "hardon" is .
      
      Well I do understand what you were trying to say now, but I still have no idea why you used that term.
      
      I also don't know how a discussion about casual gaming turned into a disscusion about Earthbound hype.