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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    Final Blade Aug 5, 07
    I hate to say it but its not just games, graphics is another and internet is the other.
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    neto_360 Aug 5, 07
    The Wii never aimed to have awesome graphics in the first place, so I don't see that as the problem.

    I would say it has to do more with games. It doesn't ahve many of it's heavy hitters out yet.
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    InnerDemon Aug 5, 07
    well i dont think it is all about the graphics or the internet, the wii was made more for party games, it isnt really ment to have stellar graphics like the 360 but for more of a fun expeirence.
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    Synergized Aug 5, 07
    I think the genre in the Wii's games will eventually bore people out and Nintendo will be forced to move onto to different styles.
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    FRoGBuster Aug 5, 07
    I find there are enough games to sustain my interest until the next good game comes out. Maybe it's okay because I also have a PS2
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    Dio Aug 5, 07
    Lack of hardcore games? Huh?

    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)
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      Raziel_326 Aug 6, 07
      Hardcore to you..

      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".
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        Miss Razz Aug 6, 07
        I dunno ... Super Mario Galaxy and Guitar Hero 3 also seem to have pretty big fanbases. "Hardcore" might not be the right word to describe them. "Very popular" sums them up pretty well.
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          Zero and X Aug 6, 07
          Mario appeals to hardcore and casual gamers. its hard to place him in a category of either one.
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    Mr Sponget Aug 6, 07
    What happened to the game "Sadness"?

    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.
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    Ameer Aug 6, 07
    The Wii's 'heavy hitters' are all sequels, really. Whatever happened to new IPs?

    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.
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    Mr Sponget Aug 6, 07
    Okay, I guess Sadness and No More Heroes were canceled.
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    bakfromon Aug 6, 07
    No More Heroes is still in development and will be out by the holiday season. It even has a site that updates new info every week. Sadness is supposedly still in development but we haven't heard anything as of recently. The Wii will have a lot of hardcore titles but they're all being release at the end of the year into beginning of next year.
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    Mr Sponget Aug 6, 07
    The developers of Sadness promised a new trailer with actual gameplay footage by the end of the year. I was being sarcastic because it was noted that all the games mentioned were either non-originals, non-hardcore, or both.
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    Final Blade Aug 6, 07
    Well what i was referring to was the 6 bad things of each console. From that article. I used the issues with the wii in my post.
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    Hawkeye Aug 6, 07
    Right now the games are defniitely the problem. I don't consider myself a casual gamer, so considering that seems to be all the Wii is churning out really sucks. I'm nto a Metroid fan either so that game won't satisfy me.


    Bring back Project H.A.M.M.E.R. dammit!
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    Evanster Aug 6, 07
    A Yu-Gi-Oh game wouldn't be too bad on the Wii would it? But I'm not a Yu-Gi-Oh fan lol.
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    Zero and X Aug 6, 07
    At the moment, theeres only party games, Zelda and Super Paper Mario. Metorid and Brawl and all those other goodies will help though.
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    Capn Droid Aug 6, 07
    Let hardcore gamers waste their money on PS3 and 360 - 360 namely for buying it over and over until finally buying PS3.

    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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    JJBDude Aug 6, 07
    The Wii is going quite fine in my opinion, Nintendo have been doing well with the console and should carry on with the way things are going for them. When you buy the Wii you must already know that your buying a console not aimed at the "hardcore" gamer, a risk they have to take. The Wii does have (or will) good game franchises though with games such as SSBB which everyone enjoys.
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      Final Blade Aug 6, 07
      Same with PS3, when you buy it you should know that its towards entertainment purposes, than just games. With the games that are lined up for it, its going to rock the world soon.
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        JJBDude Aug 6, 07
        And why the hell have you hijacked this thread to tell me this?
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    tidus04 Aug 6, 07
    To me it is an ammount of time before the Wii becomes a lower class Next Gen console. There will be high demand for some games, but in the end I think they will get repatative espically this whole Sports and Brain games and that..

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