If you tell a lie enough times, people eventually come to believe it's actually true. Lots of "hardcore gamers" and industry professionals said that Nintendo left behind core games and core players with Wii, but if you take a look at the actual data, it's clear that's a big fat falsehood.
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My top 3 are Mario 3, Mario World and Mario 64. Mario Odyssey is also excellent, and I enjoyed Sunshine but didn't care for the Galaxy series.
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This may be the first time someone's talked about Wii's relationship to "core" Nintendo gamers that actually involves data. Hardcore gamers beware.
A well researched piece, even if the slight distain for hardcore gamers on the part of the author soured the article a little for me.
I think that the main issue with the Wii is that it brought so many casuals into gaming that the majority of people thought it was a console for said group of gamers. While the Wii had many casual titles it had its fair share of core titles as well but the PS3 and the 360 had more hardcore games than the Wii.
IMO
I've played games since 1988. Nintendo ALWAYS will find a way to pump out good games.
Nearly every system didn't have a ton of good games until year 2-4 for Nintendo.
N64 had 2 games at launch...but more classics followed.
while it didn't sell like the PS1 it is responsible in many ways for some of the ideas within games now that people really like.
People have gotten away from the pure fun aspect of Nintendo and people get tricked into thinking Nintendo isn't cool anymore because all their "cool" mma loving COD "hardcore gamers " who only play one type of game tell them it is so.
Ignorance is spreading in the gaming community or has I should say, but people are starting to wake up and realize the type of games we've been missing.
Can only take so many mediocre FPS games.
At this point, unless you are pushing boundries and giving us something actually new, making a FPS is beyond lazy and smells of no creativity within the studio or at least at the head of the studio.
anyways.....Nintendo will be fine.
* 3D Mario, Mario Kart U, Zelda U, WW HD, Super Smash Brothers, Pikmin 3, Yoshi's Yarn, + a few others will start tilting things back in Nintendo's favor.
Before this generation and the Wii, I never heard the term casual gamer or hardcore gamer. It kind of makes you think, I believe if you were a big fan of either Microsoft of Sony, you needed to do some damage control because the Wii was so underpowered, so people starting saying it was all casuals, which wasn't the truth, most gamer's I know own a Wii as well as other consoles.
I think the Wii was just able to appeal to every, and the big Nintendo first party games are anything but casual in my opinion. Mostly I think people use the casual argument when it suits them, I really believe there is far too much emphasis put in on what's what, and changing the definition to suit an argument just makes people look ignorant and rash.
Hopefully this wont be as big an issue next generation since all three consoles will have a mix of everything, core, casual, family, social ect...