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Originally Posted by SkulkerZX
I can see where you're coming from Nintendo's whole aim on the Wii was to bring in the outside market, so you can kinda see why they're building up a game library to suit for that purpose.
Though I do agree to an extent, I bought a 360 as the Wii's online is pretty awful and the library's pretty poor, I'm just too in love with Zelda to not have got one on release date  |
Yeah me too... except for the part that I bought a X360 =P
I was actually going to buy an X360.. but I never did... but it was on my mind. Then I had a real good chance to play LOTS of X360 because my cousin came interstate with it and I just didn't like it. Maybe I would have liked Bioshock and Mass Effect... but definitely not Halo 3 or GoW or anything... Just didn't.
I'm looking forward to seeing what Nintendo will do with the Wii Zelda... mean while, I'll be playing SSBB I suppose... and I'll probably pick up MP (I sold it idiotically ages ago) and at the end of the year I'll buy ToS2 and maybe a couple of other games.
But yeah... this thing with making games for 5 year olds and 75 year olds has been annoying me for a while. The Wii was $400 in Australia right? Now if Wii sports hadn't come with it it would have been $300 or maybe a bit higher. This was an awesome marketing strategy. The point was... they could still include a game and the Wii was STILL cheaper than its competitors (X360 and PS3). That's why this move by Nintendo was still great. Now if the Wii just had normal controls it wouldn't have sold well at all... that's why the Wii remote was what made up for the graphics because it was intuitive. Yes. Ok... let's say all goes well for the Wii. We see ToS2 come out... as well as the other 5 RPGs coming out this year.. as well as the other RPGs coming in 2009 (including Sword of Legendia), we see the new Zelda, maybe an F-zero, probably a Metroid Wii... other games etc etc. By the end of the Wii's life span it will definitely have a good library of hardcore games... I mean, it's already got quite a good selection (TP, MP3, SSBB, RE4, SMG, Okami, MK and others that aren't as "well known.") Except... it will also have a lots of 1st party gamers that have been aimed towards casuals... Wii Fit, music, sports etc. Now while Nintendo are making games for the casuals, they are also dumbing down the difficulty of their hardcore games (MP3 and TP, not SMG funnily enough). Hopefully the Wii Zelda doesn't follow in TP's foot steps where Nintendo were making it "easy" to attract "casuals." Fact is... casuals won't want to play a game like TP regardless so why bother with trying to attract casuals to it? I mean there is already a big enough fan base for Zelda and there like 20 million people around the world own a Wii... by the time the Wii Zelda is released... there'll be like 30 million plus people who own a Wii. There is no need to attract casuals to it... there is more than enough hardcore gamers who own a way and plenty of people that are in between casual and hardcore that will also buy it. I mean... OoT did sell 7 million copies... and now that TP is quite well know, people do know what Zelda is. I don't see anymore why Zelda should be made so easy. It looked like Nintendo were taking a bit of a gamble with the Wii - it could have bombed out and they gave their big opening title TP certain safety measures so that it would not sell... but be played by the casuals.
Nintendo own 80 per cent of the shares of Monlith Soft... obviously there will be a big RPG title coming to the Wii... among the other 10 that are coming out in the next two years. Nintendo have Fire Emblem, F-zero, Zelda, Metroid, Mario, Super Smash Bros and now Monolith Soft? SMG has already been released and so has SSBB, but all the little teams working in Nintendo should be doing a Fire Emblem game, Zelda, Metroid, F-zero and an RPG from Monolith (all hardcore games). That's an awesome line-up. This should not get in the way of Nintendo's main priority - attracting "casuals." Keep casuals and hardcore seperate... and you won't be seeing hardcore players selling their Wiis (like I was about to). I mean... if Nintendo keep going the way they are... they'll be an even more awesome industry. All those gaming franchises... attracting casuals... attracting hardcore gamers... Personally I'd like to see them doing well... but I don't really care if they aren't as long as Metroid and Zelda continue.
With the next-gen console however I'd like to see Nintendo continue the motion controls, but ramp up the power of the console so Zelda and Metroid can actually look better. In Mario's case it doesn't really matter... the Wii makes him look good enough because there isn't that much detail in Mario.