This article made me litarally LOL

"The reason for this is because Sony and Microsoft both really don’t care if the video game industry dies"

yea im sure they dont like making sh1t loads of money from it /sarcasm

this guy talks as if he has inside knowledge on Sony and MS. Some points are valid but they are pretty much spun around to make it look like what theyre (ms and sony) are doing is a bad thing like having more powerful tech (how the hell could that be a bad thing). Then they talk how Ms and Sony are following what NIN has done with motion controls but of course dont mention how theirs (ms and sony) are miles ahead of what nintendo has done and will do more for interactive gaming than a little sensor bar could ever do. I personally think motion type controlls are just gimicky things that really wont work well with hardcore games like Halo or Killzone 2, yea sure maybe 10-15 years from now when the tech as much farther along than it is now it might actually be nice but for now its nothing but gimicks that most people will toy with for a short time then realize nothing will replace the conrtoller for a long time.

Sony/Microsoft are so much more.

Sorry to say that, but Nintendo may have the most sold, but I can't name a single person who still games on the Wii exclusively, and none who game much at all on the Wii.

i have a wii and i play it probably once every 2 months or so, so if that is gaming then what the hell am i doing with a ps3 and xbox360 too?
I guess they are just taking up space collecting dust, wait a minute isn't that my wii....

Clearly crappy shovelware and overpriced peripherals are the focus of gaming. Sony and MS obviously know nothing of the industry, merely attempting to push the envelope in terms of hardware, online community/play and a constant stream of triple A titles.

Silly MS/Sony, what a bunch of noobs.

Nintendo is such a gaming company they don't support their true fans. Ya - RIGHT. THEY are a "gaming company".

Lame @ss article, where the games than Nintendo? They got the casual fans already to buy their gimmick, now make something for the hardcore, not Wii F*ckin Music

Lol, I have respect for Nintendo but...no. Seriously, no. :/

There are only a few games I want from the Wii. That's about it.

An editorial about Nintendo from an Nintendo fanboy site? Really? That's as far as you get from news.

Let me correct this title....Nintendo is Casual Gaming, Sony/Microsoft are Commendable...there anyway if thats what the Wii call gaming then id rather watch paint dry on the wall. Nintendo isn't the same company it was once.

i did like nintendo back in the day of cartridges. but after the N64 there is noting i like about it. i think i just grew out of nintendo, i lived crono trigger, golden eye, FF6, metroid and zelda. but buying a nintendo console mend buying all the accerories and a new console every freaking 5 years. and i just don't have that kind of money. and the wii is just for casual (aka my little brothers). am happy playing PS3 and Xbox. i just wish they made games like before(god am old),cause now i just don't care about them.

What a load of absolute bollocks.

Nintendo are doing NOTHING for gaming. They are sending gaming backwards. Heavan helps us if every dev and publisher decide cheap shovelware is an easier way to make money than putting out real games.

I've been gaming for 30 years, and owned nearly every console that came to my country. Wii is easily my least favourite and therefore, worst console, I have ever owned. Sure it has a few gems. But by the time they arrived most gamers had stopped listening.

Nintendo turned their backs on gamers this gen. They realised there are more NON gamers. They are about nothing but lining their pockets. No ones playing CoD on Wii. No ones playing GTA, or Assassin Creed, Splinter Cell, MGS, Gears, LBP or any of the great games that came out this gen. What are people playing on Wii? Wiisports and WiiFit. Oooo, swing the controller and the bat swings. Were they up all night thinking of that? Yes a real progression in gaming.

Sony increased the number of gamers in the market in the PSOne days. Nintendo and Sega had had it all to themselves for so long and PSOne shook the whole thing up. Til then gaming was just for nerd and kids. Sont made it cool, Sony took games into nightclubs. Sony made adults, with jobs and money say wow, I might check this out.

And XBox, many of you know I dont like M$ much, but at least they innovated online and made it mainstream. At least they made hardware that keeps up so devs can push and expand on games. If Sony and M$ had both followed Nintendos lead we would have PS2.1 and XB 1.1 and games like LBP, Metal Gear 4, Heavy Rain, and Mass Effect wouldn't exist.

If you're a gamer get a PS3 or an Xbox. Wii caters to everyone else.

And yet, Sony offers the best games.

From the article:

"Nintendo created the Wii as a result of the gaming industry shrinking by only catering to the 18-35 year old male demographic."

Should read:

"Nintendo created the Wii as a result of the gaming industry shrinking by only catering to the 8-15 year old male demographic."

There fixed. kthxbye

nintards are the worst

Nintendo is a company that creates games for everyone. Its not the strdegy that's wrong, its the balance that is needed that the Wii currently doesn't have. Just look at the Nintendo DS. Can you clearly tell me that their are no games for every type of gamer? Of course not. It is indeed possible to achieve this equilibrium, but the balance is a bit off, and Nintendo needs to just work on that. That's all.

If it wasn't for Sony and Microsoft, the gaming industry wouldn't be as advanced as it is right now.

yes and so much more, and what this guy actually means is that they have been failing to deliver things that people actually want. This can be seen easily by looking back to the snes/sega days, and from what ive seen recently nothing even comes close to the fun those games offered. I think we have the wrong type of people making these games today, and modern games like ninja gaiden, and castlevaina(the console versions)prove that.

"If it wasn't for Sony and Microsoft, the gaming industry wouldn't be as advanced as it is right now."

Wrong sony is the one who made cool games back in the 90's with the playStation microsoft doesn't care about making fun stuff they just like money, and even PlayStation fell out of the loop after the ps2 came out.

oh goodness. I commend the love and passion. It takes a lot of love and passion to stick with a brand like Nintendo that chose NOT to stick with actual gamers.
A lot of love and passion, or a lot of stupidity.

This said, the Wii has a LOT of non-gaming channels and features, they're half-assed, but they're there. They also produce a LOT of non-gaming titles (and i don't even mean casual games, i mean titles that are NOT games at all), so the poor sod should get his facts straight before spewing this nonsensical fanboy rant.

Nintendo is trying to kill core gaming for profit, with their casual galore, their shallow story-less games, their mindless juicing of antiquate franchises.
Sony and Microsoft, at the moment, are expanding gaming to new frontiers, great graphics, deeper and deeper storytelling, young franchises, and core-focused line-up.

Reality is exactly the opposite of what this drooling fanboy says, but after all, what can we expect from someone that actually puts energy in a fanboy site for the brand that turned it's back to gamers.

More like Nintendo is boring gaming. How many good Wii games come out a year? Two, maybe three. That's about it.

Really?

what system has the Wiifit, Workout/fitness games, Cooking Mama, and Gardening Mama

cuz its not PS3 or 360

"Nintendo created the Wii as a result of the gaming industry shrinking by only catering to the 18-35 year old male demographic."

No-- they created it because Sony and MS had already won the fanboy hearts and minds of that demo, and they needed a new target if they were going to sell this generation. Nintendo was going to have a tough sell to the 18-35 yo males with an upgraded Cube, so instead they went, let's see about selling this primarily to people who haven't played games and won't know or care about the tech.

I mean, really, brilliant strategy on their part, but the warm and fuzzies are kind of ridiculous.

i bet Nintendo only focus on gaming, still, this does not mean, that its good at it, and in fact, they suck, let down a lot of people by only doing games like,
Cooking Mama? geez.
Sony focus on more thing than gaming like media stream, and its releasing the best games this gen,
if gaming = Nintendo, i preffer to be a non-gamer this gen and stay with Sony.

If Nintendo is gaming, why is that most AAA titles are not for it?

I fail to understand how great a system is if the "true" gamers don't even consider it. Sure, getting the rest of the world into the gaming industry is a good thing, but what about the people who saw you (Nintendo) rise from the start of time?

I do hope that Nintendo is just pulling on our legs and using Wii to amass ridiculous sums of cash to make SNES2. (haha)

On top of all that..this article screams "Nintendo Fan Boy"

Crazy how none of you understand that this article is about their business models.
Sad how headlines are the only things people read around here.

if you want to find out if a guy is a true gamer or not, ask him if he has a wii. if the answer is yes, then get the f*ck out of there asap.

There not a gaming company anymore. There just a sad joke.

Nintendo is Gaming? How much good first party games are there on the Wii? About 5-10. How much Super Mario games do we need? Seriously Nintendo make a great new IP.

I do not understand all the hate from gamers for nintendo. They have only put out 1 shovelware game and that is wii play. Gamers hate should not be at nintendo but rather companys like activision and ea amoung others. I mean what games are missing that nintendo makes? Sure they are giving you the same games (mario,zelda,metroid,...) but everyone else is doing the same. COD:MW2 it's a new COD. Halo Reach it's another halo. God of war 3 it's a new GOW. Sony seems to be the only first party that is making completely new ip's so why the hate? Anyone who bought a wii for Hrs and hrs of gametime must not have been informed. The wii is meant to be more healthy as kids are growing more obese.