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Added by Jeff Gerstmann on Aug. 26, 2008
Eurogamer's Tom Bramwell has the story on October's issue of Edge Magazine, which has a statement from Nintendo about its dedication to the "core gamers"
The quotes go a bit like this:
"We have never neglected our core gamers. We still have developers working on popular core gaming franchises but we need longer to complete these games, approximately two to three years."
aaaaaand there's this one:
"These games are not ready to launch in early 2009 but are being worked on by all development teams."
Be sure to check out Eurogamer's story for a bit more context... you might also want to track down the October issue of Edge, while you're at it, to trace this all the way back to its source. But for now, let's just assume this hasn't been telephoned into something bigger than it really is and think about this for a bit.
The concept of Nintendo focusing on the mainstream audience isn't exactly new, right? In case you already blocked it out of your memory, 99 percent of the company's E3 press conference was focused on games designed for that crowd. Maybe this says more about my memory than anything else, but what else did the company even show? Here's my recollection of the press conference.
- Shaun White
- Smiles
- More Smiles
- Cute Dog
- That Room Mic Thing
- Animal Crossing!
- Wii Music
- That Creepy Drummer Guy
- Mad Smiles, Son
- GTA for DS
- Uh... Smiles, Maybe?
- Oh, Right, Wii Sports 2 and the Controller Thingy
- Niero Running Around in Full Mr. Destructoid Garb
- Shane Bettenhausen Claiming That a New Punch-Out!! Game Was About to be Announced
- ...Smiles?
I'm convinced that there must have been more games actually announced during that thing. Anyway, you all probably remember the feelings of disappointment as very few games specifically for people who play games already were shown.
Now, if you read these new quotes a specific way, you could take them to mean that Nintendo's going to keep riding the family train until at least 2010 and leave you wondering why you waited out in front of a store to buy a Wii the second they were released. Or you could take them to mean what it says: that the games from the "popular core franchises" that Nintendo is known for are going to take awhile.
To me, this all comes down to what games Nintendo uses to fill in the next 24-36 months of blanks. This could (if I may express a little hope here) mean that the company is working on a bunch of new stuff that could appeal to people like you and me. That, to me, would be the best possible outcome. After all, this generation has already seen its Mario, Metroid, and Zelda. Nintendo isn't exactly known for pumping out key games in those franchises on an annual basis. So obviously, it's going to be awhile before we see anything along those lines.
Or maybe I'm just hoping too much and we're in for a few years of family friendly excitement that may or may not appeal to those of us who can handle a standard controller.
This, as you might have guessed, has become our question of the day. What do you think about all this? Are you tearing your hair out and selling your Wii, stat? Or are you going to sit back and see how all this pans out? What are you hoping to see on the Wii over the next couple of years?
92 Comments
Personally I regret getting a Wii because of the new focus to the "mainstream* or casual gamers. I won't sell my Wii but as of now I let it continue to collect dust while I play my 360 and PS3.
My friend was planning on selling his Wii right after he saw the press conference... Some people are really trying to stick it out, but I would have cracked by now
Boy I can't wait to get ahold of some nintendo smiles. I'm anxious to see how the wiimote is incorporated into me smiling. Perhaps I can hold it up to my face and shake it.
I'll wait and see. I still just want to be able to walk in and just buy a Wii, whenever I want. This isn't the case as most of the places with Wii's available bundle them up.
Well actually, funny you should ask, but I just put my Wii up for sale on craigslist. Galaxy was nice and all, but excessive smiling just doesn't do it for me. I don't know maybe smiles are the best thing since thin crust pizza for some people.
My brother just bought a PS3 because of the poor lineup of games the Wii has deep into 2009. The only few Wii games that look interesting are Madworld, Dead Rising: CTYD, and House of the Dead: Overkill, and maybe a few others, and NONE of them are made by Nintendo. And what's a Nintendo console without Nintendo developed games???? What would the Wii look like without Capcom and Sega?!?
I'm keeping my Wii, since I <3 Nintendo too much to sell it. I stuck through the GameCube era, this can't be too bad.
I've thought of selling my Wii for months now, but I know the second I sell it, someone will announce a game I'll want for it. I've had my Wii for close to a year now and have only bought 3 games for it, while I've bought so many games for my Ps3 and 360. MadWorld looks really interesting, so there's hope yet.
2011? We might as well not talk about it because I'll probably be dead by then.
That's a lot to ask of someone to wait years without knowing if they will ultimately even like those games. I realize there is a huge user base for that console, but will any of that casual (lack of a better term) audience even care about the next console cycle? It just seems like over the longer period of time the gamer willing to spend the most money will have moved on. Afterall, the people that play a couple of minutes a day are pretty clearly not the same people buying ten games a year.
That's too bad, it really is.
That's too bad, it really is.
they could at least make a decent "party game" and not just throw a bunch of shit our way...
I'm going to keep my wii and play a new game with it called how much dust can I let gather on it before I can't stand it and dust it. After reading this I think I'm going to break a world record!
I waited as long as I could and finally sold it last week. I hadn't turned it on in months save for firmware updates. There's nothing there right now to make me want to keep it, maybe a couple more years it'll be worth looking at again.
Since I bought my Wii I've purchased 1 game for it, and like 15 game cube games. I had my Wii in a gym bag in my closet for about 2 months before I bought Odama which forced me to hook it up again.
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