Kombo: It's been a common refrain over the past few years that Nintendo has left its hardcore fans hung out to dry, eschewing longtime fans in favor of pursing the lucrative yet fickle casual market. We've watched as month in and month out casual titles like Wii Fit and Wii Play have dominated sales charts, and lamented the fact that many of our Wiis sit unused for weeks or even months on end due to the lack of titles that appeal to the more traditional gaming tastes.
It's funny that we complain though, because if you really want to get to the heart of why Nintendo doesn't make more hardcore games then it's time to take a good hard look in the mirror. The simple fact is that we just aren't buying enough games to justify Nintendo wasting any more energy on this whiny, impossible to please fanbase.
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
New Chrono Trigger Form-ism figures of Crono and Marle have been showcased at a Square Enix pop-up store, with pre-orders expected soon.
The Nintendo DS has some amazing titles available. Here are some of the best nostalgic games that every child of the DS era grew up playing.
I enjoyed both Rush games, I did think the action was sometimes too fast to see what was coming up in terms of hazards though, which meant replaying the same stage a bunch of times, other than that they were enjoyable, good special stages, 3D sections and bosses for the most part.
DS is one of the best consoles of all time. Such a rich library of software
Zelda were all glorious on it.
Haha, it's funny that they use Square Enix as an example of hardcore games not selling on the DS considering the DS has Square Enix's best selling games this gen and they have a whole bunch of million sellers.
A lot of people didn't buy Punch Out! though because it's pretty much a straight remake and a lot of people weren't happy.
So it's the fans that stopped Project Zero 4 from getting released in Europe and the US? Stupid Nintendo! Stop blaming your stupidity on others.
EDIT: Oh and I forgot about Winter! That got canned because Nintendo wanted to keep their system kid-friendly and then they go and release RE: Umbrella Chronicles and HotD: Overkill. Hypocrites.
The title of this "article" is ridiculous by itself, is it worth the read?
It's about damn time that someone figured out the difference between Nintendo's "core" and the medias preconcieved notion of what Wii owners want.
Totally disagree with the news article. Nintendo doesn't hate the hardcore, they just have absolutley no clue how to provide for them.