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- inactive, on 04/21/2008, -0/+2The best move for Nintendo is to use the cash they're getting from the Wii and design a console worthy of some of the good games that are in the market today. I wasn't buying the whole 'Wii is for newcomers to videogames' crap but the numbers are speaking for themselves :^/
- Topher06, on 04/21/2008, -1/+2Nintendo is having absolutely NO problems selling Wii games, its 3rd party developers that can't sell games on the Wii. Every Nintendo published game for the Wii to date has sold over a million copies, often within weeks of release.
The problem with the Wii is its gimmick motion control system, which hems 3rd party developers to develop not the game they want, but a game that must somehow make use of that gimmick, and most 3rd parties are just not doing it properly. Nintendo's ultimate failure with the Wii is focusing ONLY on the Wiimote control scheme, putting no effort into a system with greatly improved performance or other features (like GOOD online multiplayer). This means that in order to make a game for the Wii, you have to cripple your game on quality or slap some comprimised control scheme for it to work on the Wii platform (like all ports from other systems). When the game control sucks and you can't rely on stunning graphics or improved next-generation features, then you just left with a sh*t game. Okami might be a fantasitcly original game but there are already reports of how lousy the motion control is in the game after is port to the Wii.
However, in spite of what I believe is the most mediocre game platform every created in history, Nintendo found a license to print money and they don't really have to care about any 3rd party game developers. The Wii console is selling like hot cakes and every Nintendo published game is guaranteed money in the bank. Ultimately I think 3rd parties will revolt against the Wii, dramatically reducing the number of games developed for it, which was the same problem with the GameCube (ok, so the Wii is the second most mediocre game console of all time).
The success of the Wii platform is entirely based on whether Nintendo can continue to deliver new titles in a timely basis. If Nintendo stops game releases for a while, lets say to focus on the next Zelda or Mario, and nothing is released by Nintendo, I think you will see Wii takes its deserved 3rd in this generation of consoles. I think Nintendo fully realizes this though, and over the next few years all your going to see is cheap ass unoriginal games that feature Mario in them like golf or baseball or other glorified exoanded Wii Sports titles. As long as Nintendo makes something with Mario in the title (like Mario take a Crap), they are good to go, its just very sickening when people think Nintendo is a leader in gaming innovation and creativity. - pixelfox, on 04/21/2008, -0/+1It happens - you create a good console for some parts of the demographics but not for others. It's not that motion-sensing and the like aren't good- but you can't just expect all the hard-core gamers to forsake their analog sticks for it. I'm already looking to the next generation consoles and wondering how Microsoft and Sony will adapt Nintendo's technology; that's where the future of console games is.
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