Analyst Michael Pachter is now synonymous with his predictions of the videogames world, and today the Wedbush Morgan employee has cast his eye over Nintendo's Wii advertising, specifically that for Wii Fit - complaining that it is killing off the console's hardcore crowd.
This hardcore gamer grandma has put nearly 4,000 days into Wii Fit!
The NPD Group has revealed the top 10 best-selling exclusives in the U.S. since 1995, and Nintendo holds all 10 spots.
And the #1 game on this list is also the #1 game (and accessory) to be found at the local goodwill.
Take a look at the 50 best selling games of all time https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...
Nintendo has always had the most mass appeal, my Mother would play Mario.
There's landslides and then there's this. Wouldn't be surprised if the top 50 was mostly Nintendo games.
VGChartz's William D'Angelo: "Today we take a look at the top 10 best-selling games for yet another platform. Up to this point we have looked at the original PlayStation, the Nintendo 64, the PlayStation 2, the original Xbox, the GameCube, the Nintendo DS, and the PSP. This week it's the turn of Nintendo's most popular home console, the Wii.
The Wii is the fifth best-selling video game platform in history and the third best-selling home console in gaming history. It is also the best-selling home console not released by Sony. It sold 101.18 million units lifetime."
Just like the DS list, every game on the Wii's list has sold over 10 million. Not even PS1 and PS2 did that. That's very incredible
What an idiot. When are people going to realize that stuff like Wii Fit (don't know if I'm ready exactly to call it a game yet) is bringing new people into the gaming world. Even if some mother buys Wii Fit and never plays another video game, the very idea of Video games has become acceptable and o.k. in her mind for her kids. Thus, she will buy them the games that THEY request regardless of whether she wants to play them.
Many gamers will buy Wii Fit out of curiosity, or in hopes that cool games come out in the future which use it (and likely they will come). The casual crowd will buy it, and many of them will see for the first time the rest of the gaming world and consider it. Unless something like this, which attracts them and pulls them in, they'd never even care about gaming.
The children who play kiddie games on the Wii, the Teens and young adults who play party and casual games, many of them will become hardcore as they learn to love gaming and seek something different, or more serious. This benefits the entire industry in the long run. As long as the Hardcore keep buying serious games, Developers will never stop making them. As long as new gamers are being brought in, new crops of the Hardcore will continue to sprout. Wii Fit is expanding the market, not hurting it. (Unless of course you consider games that you personally dislike to be inherently bad for gaming, which is pathetically arrogant and selfish.)
Most of the people who buy Wii Fit (The Oprah Crowd) would likely never have considered video games in the first place, their kids will play the hell out of the console when they aren't using it, and one day, they will want and get more serious games.
Nintendo has already come out with a Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Metroid, Mario Kart and Smash Bros game for the Wii in its first year and a half. Not only can they afford currently to try something like Wii Fit to bring new gamers in, and experiment with a different style of gaming, they have no intention of halting their creation of classic Nintendo hardcore style games. New Kid Icarus, Pikmin, Zelda, and Pokemon games are in the works right now.
I'm sick of hearing people make these false statements just because they personally don't like the idea of Wii Fit. Most of those people probably don't own, or plan to own a Wii anyway. Why feel threatened? You have your 1080p, your shooters where you aim with your thumbs, your realistic racers, and smooth epic RPG's with no end in sight. Be happy and quit hating. Nintendo is building up the gaming crowds numbers, and all will benefit. Eventually.
Yeah I'm sorry but one game aimed at the non gamer is not going to turn away leigons of the hardcore. If that was the case then Singstar, DDR, GH, Buzz, and many more casual games would of killed off all those hardcore PS2 fans.
The bottom line is that hardcore gamers will continue to play games they like. If you think something like Wii Fit is going to keep people from playing Zelda then this guy is even dumber than he appears. Hardcore gamers don't need advertising, we already know more about a game than any advertising campaign could ever tell us.
I thought they died the moment people realized about Wii's specs.
When will this crap ever end? I know everybody experiences are different but I went out and purchased a Wii when it first came out, started playing some games with the kids, started liking games again after 15 years, thought, maybe I should get myself an X360 or PS3 and try out these "hardcore" games. So I did, now not only do I play the Wii but I'm playing Rainbow six on my PS3 as well. Guess what? When Wii Fit comes out I'm buying that too, am I alone on this one guys? Is it possible that the Wii can help casual gamers become more hardcore? Come find me on Rainbow six and figure it out for yourself.