21 hours and no one gives a shit.  Oh wells.  Some people hate reading.

So glad there's another thread about how the average perception of the Wii is wrong. It's been about 10 hours since I saw the last one. Keep fighting the fight.

" So glad there's another thread about how the average perception of the Wii is wrong. It's been about 10 hours since I saw the last one. Keep fighting the fight. "

" So glad there's another thread about how the average perception of the Wii is wrong. It's been about 10 hours since I saw the last one. Keep fighting the fight. "

" @HandsomeDead said:

" So glad there's another thread about how the average perception of the Wii is wrong. It's been about 10 hours since I saw the last one. Keep fighting the fight. "

It isn't really about the perception of the Wii but how the Wii affects the market. "

" @HandsomeDead said:

" So glad there's another thread about how the average perception of the Wii is wrong. It's been about 10 hours since I saw the last one. Keep fighting the fight. "

Exactly, you guys will never win, you'll never get us to like the Wii, or in my case, ever buy one. "

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Wow, that was a long but interesting read. He makes a lot of good points, but I'm curious to see how Nintendo plans on pushing further upstream without hitting a ceiling. 
 
Hehe one point the writer was wrong on is that he said there was no Wii Sports 2. Strange that he'd miss a step on something like that when most of his stuff is well-researched and backed up.
 
PS: People might have given more of a shit had you given more of your own thoughts on the article rather than just linking to it ;)

I read it years ago, it was stupid then it's stupid now.  It also became the symbol of Wii fanboyism in my eyes.  Don't try to force others to enjoy what you enjoy.

"Hehe one point the writer was wrong on is that he said there was no Wii Sports 2."

"@ThomasP: "you guys" are Wii fanboys, and "us" are people that like to play normal ass games, minus all the lame gimmicks."

" I read it years ago, it was stupid then it's stupid now.  It also became the symbol of Wii fanboyism in my eyes.  Don't try to force others to enjoy what you enjoy. "

" @Symphony said:

"Hehe one point the writer was wrong on is that he said there was no Wii Sports 2."

It's a pretty ancient article.

" @ThomasP: "you guys" are Wii fanboys, and "us" are people that like to play normal ass games, minus all the lame gimmicks. "

This article is going to great lengths to explain a phenomenon that anyone who is into video games is already aware of. He just uses terms he learned in some junior college econ class in place of  "casual", and then tries to tell me that "casual" doesn't exist. It does exist. You've just now defined it, albeit with a different name.
 
I guess I just don't see the point of this article or why it's being used to convince people not to dislike the Wii. It's endlessly discussing obvious fucking platitudes about the industry, as though explaining things I already know but slower is going to make me learn it more or something. And somehow this is supposed to change the fact that I don't like the way Wii games control or that I find a lot of these games to be uninteresting? You're not going to change someone's preference with a logical argument because preferences aren't logical. It's like telling someone who doesn't like orange juice that orange juice is nutritious. It's definitely true, but that guy still doesn't like oranges.
 
I know what the Wii is there for. I can appreciate some (but far from all) of the popular games on the platform. I still don't want to play them. If this is just an argument against people claiming that casual games are "bad" in absolute terms, then I guess it makes sense. Regardless of argument, it's absolutely ridiculous that this guy wrote a 20-page research paper because people on the Internet were talking bad about his video game console.
 
tl;dr Pretty much this:

@Diamond said:

" I read it years ago, it was stupid then it's stupid now.  It also became the symbol of Wii fanboyism in my eyes.  Don't try to force others to enjoy what you enjoy. "

" Wow, that was a long but interesting read. He makes a lot of good points, but I'm curious to see how Nintendo plans on pushing further upstream without hitting a ceiling.   Hehe one point the writer was wrong on is that he said there was no Wii Sports 2. Strange that he'd miss a step on something like that when most of his stuff is well-researched and backed up.  PS: People might have given more of a shit had you given more of your own thoughts on the article rather than just linking to it ;) "