Nintendo has announced a new Pokemon title that is on its way to Wii.
Adam Allcroft writes: Because the Wii has been successful with gamer’s mums, and not gamers themselves arguably, the console hasn’t gained a cool reputation. This wasn’t helped by awkward performance by Cammie at E3, who was infamous for dying on the first Goomba. Let’s face it: verything about a console comes down to the games. One has to wonder, what were the games that guaranteed that the Wii would be shunned by the hardcore?
...I think it was mostly the oversaturation of shovelware.
The countless overpriced peripherals.
The lack of a hard drive.
Friend codes.
Lack of user IDs (all purchases console-locked).
Oversaturation of shovelware
Obnoxious marketing campaigns aimed SOLELY at introducing new gamers to the medium (a good thing, by iteslf, but kind of assinine when it looked like the Wii was ignored Core Gamers entirely).
And in the case of NoA, inexplicable localization choices.
And, perhaps most of all, the lack of scat-colored FPS games for those early years, when everyone in the industry thought scat-colored FPS games were the ONLY type of game any "real" gamer wanted to buy, forever earning the Wii a reputation for being the console not aimed at "real gamers."
Of course, casual gamers would never go for a platform that lacks even the basic requirements for a shooting game.
the wii had more hardcore games than the gamecube and a better library. So they improved.
I mean nintendo and even third parties stepped up the exclusives.
I mean mario sunshine vs galaxy, super paper mario, new super mario bros
prime 1,2 vs prime trilogy, other M
melee vs brawl
windwalker vs twilight princess and skyward sword?
dk and kirby revitalized? First party hard core rpgs like xenoblade, pandoras tower, fire emblem 10 yay.
DRAGON QUEST X?
Its not even close
The Wii is still selling like hotcakes and kicking the HD twins in the ass. How can the reputation be so bad?
This is a list of all of the Wii games I own:
Arc Rise Fantasia
Cursed Mountain
Harvest Moon: Animal Parade
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Little King's Story
Monster Hunter Tri
Muramasa The Demon Blade
No More Heroes
No More Heroes 2 Desperate Struggle
Rune Factory Frontier
Sin & Punishment Star Successor
Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
Trauma Center Second Opinion
Trauma Center New Blood
Trauma Team
There are good games out there for the Wii and there are terrible games out there for the PS3 and the Xbox360. If you don't want to buy a bad game do some research and decide for yourself if you think you'll like a game or not. Don't blame the system for the poor work of the people who made a bad game. The Wii may have more shovelware titles than the other two systems, but that doesn't mean that people have to buy them.
We have a junior writer, at Everyday Gamers----my 11 year old, who goes by the online name Matt-Chu! This is his first review, and it's for PokePark Wii. He is working on a Pokemon Black and White review, that should be up really quickly after the game!
GameSpot writes: "PokePark Wii is a world apart from the role-playing games at the core of the Pokemon megafranchise. There are no humans and no pokeballs. In place of Pokemon battles, there are infrequent, sporty minigames. Instead of capturing and collecting Pokemon, you, as Pikachu, roam the park befriending them. This is a free-roaming Pokesafari punctuated by controller-waggling park attractions, often in the form of races or time trials. There's not a lot in it for an experienced gamer, but if hanging out with adorable Pokemon is all you ever wanted from a Wii game, look no further."
Could be interesting, but we'll have to wait and see what this is all about.
The title alone implies this is going to suck.
i hope its good, its being a while that a pokemon game hit,s the wii
(it would be nice to see a pokemon game similar to XD........or not)
Lol, everyone knew Nintendo was going to make a crappy spin off like this when they announced a Pokemon Wii title was coming. Disappointment is the name of their game this gen.
I hope this is another title like Hey You, Pikachu!/Pokemon Channel. I loved those games.