April NPD or Everyone Drinks except Nintendo

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by BreakABone

You damned if you do.
And damned if you don't if your Nintendo.

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But is there a chance.. a small small chance that people who buy it actually enjoy it?

Maybe... and yet...
If Nintendo had decided to create a system that was truly in direct competition (as people like to put it) with Sony and Microsoft, and this hypothetical system surpassed Gamecube's total worldwide sales in less than 2 years (and was very likely to eventually surpass N64's total sales), as the Wii has done, there'd really be no "damned if you do" attitude right now...

Nintendo fans have always bought Nintendo consoles for Nintendo's offerings... With the Wii, you're still getting those; so from a Nintendo fan's perspective, you have everything you've always loved, only now it's selling like hotcakes...

The whole problem with this discussion lies within this new "casual" pseudo/non-gamer base they've tapped into, what they've done for sales, how interested they actually end up being in gaming, what kind of games they're interested in, etc etc etc...

As for Game Party/Carnival Games' success, of course there's a chance that someone will actually enjoy it (maybe somewhere along the lines of a 21% chance)... Especially among the new market Nintendo's discovered...
See though, I can't help but feel a bit like a snooty, elitist longtime gamer, but I personally don't want the future of gaming to be made up of by poorly thrown together mini-game compilations...
And from where I'm standing, the only difference between Wii and last generation is the success of that type of game, the mainstream hype, a dryer market of quality third-party titles, and a new controller that, IMO, hasn't quite lived up to the hype as the "future of gaming"...

Originally Posted by Gekko

There is no war, no battle, it's simply two companies with competing products. The only people who should care are the ones working for those companies. The rest of you simply decided you wanted to cheer for an electronics box that hooks up to your TV and then suddenly became hooligans fighting with each other.

If I may be the voice of Professor S's around the world, "console wars" is just a familiar label gamers use when discussing this situation in which two or three companies have competing products, so as not to have to type out "this situation in which companies have competing products" every time they want to mention it...
And while I'll agree that the term does give off a sense of teenagers throwing a couple of hissy-fits, I don't think that's the case...
But perhaps we can agree to call it "TSIWCHCP"?

As far as I'm concerned, TSIWCHCP simply provides a forum for discussion of where you see gaming going, where you want to see it go, etc etc...
Wii's new demographic simply makes things more interesting...A tad bit'o'the unknown... OoOoogidy...