Games We Love but Wish We Could Love Playing
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You've probably all wondering, the Wii can't be perfect, can it? With it being the histories fastest selling console, owning it's competition, there must be a flaw. An article on Only A Game thinks that the problem could be the games. The Wii has caught the attention of a wide range of gamers, from the elderly to the young. Only A Game suggests that Nintendo needs to extend the game genres when gamers start to become hardcore gamers, demanding different games. Read the full article at the source.
Because now that a channel to the wider audience has been opened, publishers are starting to realise that they need to invest in more Wii products, and fewer games of the kind we used to play. And this is the Curse of the Wii - that it is taking the money away from new games that the gamer hobbyists might want and enjoy.
The Hardcore gamers, or gamer hobbyists, are justifiably concerned that Nintendo is screwing them, and Nintendo is not blind to this concern. Although, as Corvus and others discuss, Nintendo has already paid its fans in full by making the great games that they have already made. It is not that the Hardcore gamers will not get more of the games they want - they are still the people handing over the bulk of the money at the most regular intervals - it is just that the disparity in development spending will now begin to rectify itself, choking experimentation in games with gamer hobbyist appeal.
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I would say it has to do more with games. It doesn't ahve many of it's heavy hitters out yet.
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros Brawl, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, No More Heroes, Disaster Day of Crisis, Battalion Wars 2, Guitar Hero 3, Madden 08, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, Manhunt 2, shall I go on? (and those are just games coming out within the next few months)
Other than Manhunt 2 (which is a possibility it may not even hit Wii), RE: Umbrella Chronicles, Metroid Prime, and maybe SSBB, I wouldn't consider any of the other games you have mentioned to be "hardcore".
It's only the first year. Xbox 360 didn't have the best games on their first year. PS3 doesn't blow one away though it has good games as well. It depends on what your definition a hardcore game is. (As there's so many people with different ideas on it) Is it anything that's not a party game of some sort? So that stretches from Super Mario Galaxies to Halo 3. Some people thinks it's strictly bloody, mature rated, shooters which Wii is lacking.
Half the games listed above aren't 'hardcore' and the ones that are 'sort of' are all sequels of the Gamecube's best sellers last gen.
Bring back Project H.A.M.M.E.R. dammit!
The Wii is forever for the little kid and old people group, not to mention the soft parents who seem interested enough in video games.
That's probably a wider variety than hardcore, anyways. Nintendo never was and never will be "hardcore" while at the same time be completely first party.
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