Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime has detailed Nintendo's future plans, including winning over the "Halo crowd".

In an interview with Edge Online, Fils-Aime expressed hopes to "win over" Xbox 360 and PS3 owners who bad mouth the Wii to fellow gamers.


"We think we can win over the Halo audience with something like The Conduit, a multi-player, online, shooting experience, or Dead Space Extraction. And you know what? Once those people buy into Wii, they'll go buy Mario Kart or Wii Fit Plus."

"Nintendo's long-term strategy remains as it has for some time: people who say "I don't play videogames, and I have no interest in playing videogames."



*uggh*

Reggie clearly has not got a clue, the hardcore gamers of today play a extremely diverserange of content, so to then refer to them all as the "Halo crowd", is plain dumb. It makes him and Nintendo seem way out of touch.

The generic looking, The Conduit, and lightgun game, Dead Space: Extraction, are not going to set the industry alight [ . ], Tiger Woods 10 perhaps may well do, but certainly not the likes of The Conduit. And this talk of such hardcore gamers then buying Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit +, is comical.

Mario Kart Wii I can see "hardcore" gamers buying. But Wii Fit Plus? Ha.

Meh, it's just PR. It's not that bad either, only when taken to the extreme. Remember, he may refer to hardcore gaming, but he's still betting on the more mainstream media and audience. Not guys like us, but mainstream fanboys who think they're hardcore. And to them, games like The Conduit do have a certain amount of hype over how hardcore they are. And of course the same goes to Halo. So for that kind of thing, it's not so weird he combines them in such a way. Even though The Conduit is not what will pull gamers in, I'd bet more on Japanese titles like Monster Hunter 3, The Crystal Bearers, Sin & Punishment 2, and other involving titles. But also Western EA games, Silent Hill, and others of course.

Anyway, this thread will quickly be reduced to a troll fest about how Wii has no hardcoer gamez all over again, with people forgetting simplefacts.

I'm pretty sure that the "Halo Crowd" already thinks that the Wii is lame. Anything that has over a thousand party games is so below them, but I don't blame that reason.

They could get Halo 4 exclusively on Wii and they wouldn't necessarily win the "Halo Crowd'.

Above most else, Wii needs a much better online infrastructure, universal non-number friend codes and much better online communication features to even take steps towards reaching that market.

HAHA yeah imagine Halo with friend-codes. xD

I think it's impossible for the Wii to ever win over the "Halo crowd," but they might be able to win over a different branch of hardcore gamers -- the RPG crowd. They're certainly well on their way in doing so.

I'm gonna have to get a Wii eventually for Tales of Graces and Dragon Quest X, and just like I did when I bought a GameCube for Tales of Symphonia and Twilight Princess (yes, this was before the big TP delay -- otherwise I would've just gotten a Wii instead), I'll pick up plenty of other games as well -- most likely including Mario Kart Wii (I don't normally play racing games so I really don't know what makes this game casual and don't give a damn either).

Now picking up Wii Fit.... Yeah... not so much.

No. They'll never get to us, hardcore gamers, by giving us shit like the Conduit. That will not work. We will not surrender to casual gaming, even though that is Nintendo's utopia.

lulz.

Wii Fit > Halo

And I liked Halo.

rofl

crunchUK, you have not played Wii Fit, therefore you have no authority whatsoever to comment on that issue. : )

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Thanks, I linked it again in the OP, hopefully it works now.

I love Mario Kart Wii, and I played all the older console versions. Online is a blast, but you better bring your "A" game if you're in a group of high VR people. Nothing feels better than beating some 8000+ VR racers with my little 7000 VR Mii on a motorcycle.

Good luck Nintendo you'll need it to win over that crowd.

Halo crowd? What the hell? That's just messed up.

The Conduit and Dead Space: Extraction will not win over the "Halo crowd" but it might win over a small portion of that crowd I guess.  Call of Duty: World at War came out for the Wii and didn't really do anything so why would two lesser franchises make a big impact?

Reggie means well, but that was a dumb thing to say.

The problem with the "Halo crowd" is that they are too busy playing Halo 3 /Hhalo ODST and Halo: Reach ...

hehe ...

I like Halo and I have to say I'm interested in Silent Hill and Dead Space. In terms of shifting the "Halo" audiences' opinion, he might have a point.

He's saying Halo fans won't look at the Wii as some kind of cosmic joke with the titles they have upcoming. I can see that.

You know...when Reggie is talking about the "Halo crowd," I don't think he means that synonymously with "hardcore gamer." In fact, he says in that same quote that he's talking about reaching out to people who wouldn't necessarily label themselves as gamers. A large number of people who play Halo might play that, Call of Duty 4 and little else. Isn't this one of the things that Halo is consistently lauded for by Microsoft, for having the great crossover appeal? Think of all the stereotypical frat house brothers who get together to play Halo before downing 25 Sparks a night.

That isn't to say that Nintendo can reach out to those consumers, or that in some way they aren't already. I can't tell you the number of parties I've been to with non-gamers where Wii Sports or Mario Kart gets busted out. The crossover appeal of the Wii is pretty strong, with or without the Conduit.

I think you people need to read what he's saying a bit more closely.

^ Most reasonable post in the history of the internet.

To be hardcore you need a controller not a wand, nuff said.

I want my goddamn black Wii dammit. 

The Wii will NEVER win over the Halo crowd. Halo is all about the multilayer, and if you can't play against strangers without their friend code it'll never work

I think that the conduit is more than capable of turning a few Halo player's heads, if only because of the motion controlled Online Multiplayer. Does that mean that it appeals to me (I would consider myself a "Hardcore" Gamer and a fan of FPS games)? Hell No.

The Halo crowd is the kind of person who thinks playing certain types of games makes them cool. The type of person who can say, with a straight face, CoD:WaW is better than CoD4. The Halo audience and the core are not one and the same.

fuck nintendo. there, i said it. 

Only way to win over the "halo crowd" is to market the game by drilling the same drivell over and over again with flashy viral marketing and stupid leet speek all around.

To be honest the young gamer crowd of today only gives a shit about 2 things: Badass-ness and Graphics. Oh wait and some way to comunicate to others how much better they are then the other person with hate speach and ethic slurs.

Since Nintendo doesnt really market this to most young "cool" gamers. Those people wont care. They will bite if they give samus jiggly DDs and a bikini. and Mario has to be shooting fools all over the place with a M-16, while the princess is dressed as a whore. and Nintendo makes a character who wears a banana hammock can lift a building with his bare hands and can slice dudes in half as blood gushes everywhere while nakid women are running around and the dude screams fuck you all every 2 minutes. Oh and knifing...lots and lots of knifing motions.

The Conduit isn't going to win over anyone. The game looks like complete ass.

Why would they want to try to win over retards?

Remember last gen when "casual" meant people who only played GTA, Madden, and Halo? These labels are stupid as fuck.