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Monday, Nov 2, 2009

The rising concern amongst Wii owners and Nintendo, as to the lack of sales, has become big issue ever since Iwata released Nintendo's heavy six-month fiscal losses.This is all conjecture, but if Nintendo continues this trend of casual over hardcore for much longer they will suffer greatly. Their fans have called out for a new Wii Starfox, Donkey Kong, Kid Iccarus, Earthbound, Luigi's Mansion (or similar spin-off), and many others. Yet Nintendo is focusing on Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and several DDR and Guitar Heroesque party games that do little for their hardcore base of gamers. They were more interested in re-releasing Gamecube games like DK Jungle Beat, and Pikmin 1 than they were about making a new DK or Pikmin game. Iwata and Nintendo's direction for the Wii worked to capture new audiences, and in return alienated lot of it's oldschool fans. The DS has fared far better as a result of it's innovation and it's excellent 1st and 3rd party catalog of games. It contains a lot of the Wii's charm and has also gathered many more casual gamers, but has not abandoned it's loyalist or hardcore fans. I personally would buy a Wii tomorrow if Nintendo made a 3rd Pilotwings game, and pulled it off as well as Pilotwings 64. Unfortunately, Iwata and the staff at Nintendo seem far too interested in having Link or Mario do things to even consider the implications of redeeming an old project. I don't believe this will end Nintendo, not even by a long shot, but the N64 and Gamecube sauntered behind the PSOne and PS2, and the Wii may just follow the same fate from this point on. If this continues into a fourth generation then Nintendo may have to step back and make Gameboy's and DS' for a while to come.

Category: Games

Posted by in2DarKneSs, 5:09pm

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Monday, Aug 11, 2008

Man, I miss the good old days......

I miss the good old days in gaming. When I first started gaming there were a very select few people who were gaming as well. We were considered weird. We would sit and talk about games like Super Mario World, or Megaman X 1-10 million. We were a small group who enjoyed a rare hobby. Then I wake up and everyone and their f'n grandma is a gamer, and all I ever see is people arguing about systems, and games for systems, and betrayals by manufacturers, and when someone brings up even a preference in music they are bashed on a gaming forum for not agreeing XBOX or WII or PS3, even though the attack goes out to the music. I miss the cool people I used to discuss this stuff with before everyone became consumeristically mental. Not a single person thinks it is cool that XBOX is getting FF XIII on the PS3 side, even though it is awesome that they are. This game and many other multiplatform excursions should bridge gaming gaps, not widen them. I remember when being a fanboy meant you like gaming, not sold your grandma out to defend MGS over GoW. People need to get into the community instead of the small extremist groups, and have fun. That is what it was all about last I checked. I applaud anyone who can realize that competition breeds innovation in a market like this, and can applaud others for liking what they like without infringing on what others like themselves. If you would bash a system whole-heartedly without a care and call yourself a gamer, you are a liar. The people playing them may be ignorant, but the system is an inanimate object that has done nothing to you. Do you yell at a rock when someone hits you with it? No, cause that would be stupid. Just as stupid as bashing a peice of plastic because you meet ignorant people who like it. I am 23 years old and have been gaming since I was 5 years old. I started back on the Atari 2600, and no matter how sad it is, I am proud of that. I am not proud of calling myself a gamer when other "gamers" are giving us a terrible name with people because they are ignorant pricks. Enjoy what YOU have, and leave everyone else to what THEY have.

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Saturday, Jan 6, 2007

The problem with misguided fanboyism

This is a little bit of a rant, so please bear with me. Fanboyism is great, loyalty to the things one cherishes or finds worthy is great, but misguided fanboysim isn't. I am tired of people like Smoothbrother1, who create topics to draw people in to a conversation where they can openly bash them. If u like X-360 awesome, great for u. If u think a gaming company like Capcom cares about serving n e one but Capcom, u r wrong. If i am correct, and as a human being i am subject to error, when RE 4's director said he would kill himself if RE 4 ever went to PS2, jokingly of course, that didn't stop Capcom. Feel free to correct me if i'm wrong of course, because this blog is about the disgust of ignorance, and i wish not to b ignorant.

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