I had a very well-worded (but probably a bit boring) post on why Nintendo may have made a good choice in not sending enough Wiis to America, but as I was saving it, Open Office closed for NO GODDAMN REASON thereby wasting more time than I really want to mention here. If I can find a way to blame this on a person, murder will directly ensue, and be assured: it will be slow and painful.
Anyway, here's the nutshell: Nintendo didn't saturate the market with Wiis when they were first released, so they now sell steadily and Nintendo never had to drop the price for its console like Microsoft and Sony had to do for theirs.
I'm so pissed off right now that I can't even come up with a colorful way to tell you how pissed off I am,
Zac
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ouch, that is why you always save though, in response to the nintendo thing though, nintendo also has a wider market to sell to though with it's whole appeal to the "casual gamer" who honestly may be purchasing their first console, thus not knowing what their buying in relation to the other consoles. So in turn for paying a little less they also get nothing but a hell of a lot of casual fluff and few titles that you can really get into for awhile, with graphics a teeny bit better than the gamecube, and with broken internet functionality(when competitors were pulling it off successfully in the previous generation), sorry i got a little ranty there. In conclusion, when it comes to the current consoles you kinda get what you pay for.
Those fluff games sell like crazy, though. Trust me, I've sold more copies of Cooking Mama than Gears of War and Fallout 3 combined. The Wii may not be the gamer's system, but Nintendo is making shit-tones of cash from it, and I think the decision to not flood the market is a contributing factor.
I agree with you completely on the point that casual games do sell like hotcakes, the issue that i decry is that Nintendo has built it's fanbase throughout the years by appealing to a very particular kind of gamer that likes a challenge and new and innovative takes on gaming. While I'm not saying that Nintendo has completely left them, they have seemed to create a console completely against the kind of games it made it's reputation from back in the day. Gaining a new base of consumer isn't a bad thing initially, but when you alienate everyone else who helped you to get where you are to pander to a different crowd, well that's another story.
What can I say? It sucks big fat ones, but what can you or I do? Nintendo will do what makes them money, so appealing to the casual gamer is probably not a fad. All we can really hope for is that they will use some of that cash to give us a sympathy throw every now and again. My major concern is that this mindset will spread to Sony and Microsoft. God help us then.
The truth is that as much as the hardcore gamer crowd is wanting deep, mind sucking story lines, the rest of the world is wanting more of a mind numbing effect. Still, I can't say I haven't played my share of the screw around wii games. They're fun, like microsoft's Solitaire when you've got too much time to waste, but too little to do something worth doing. Oh well.
Speaking of sucks, sry 'bout office man.
Ug. Bummer about the office thing. So is the Wii's smart business plan a good thing or no? I am confused.
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