Source: Kotaku
It’s a sad day for Nintendo fanboys. Don’t believe me? Read the following quote from Nintendo President Satoru Iwata when asked about the success of the Wii and interactive control scheme:
[The waggle's] an extension of the argument of straightforward and easy control we started with the DS, but putting it in the living room makes it different. As big screen televisions increase, what kind of game machine can you make? Targeting highly detailed graphics and epic stories are options, and in that situation, the gamer population doesn’t increase. The answer was creating the sensation of really playing sports on the television screen, and it’s a new type of physical interaction.
Find out what kind of sensation this quote gives me, after the jump.
Basically what Iwata is saying is, “we’ll let 360 and PS3 have the cutting edge games and we’ll just sit back and suck in all the casual gamers with crappy storylines, inferior graphics and flailing arm motions.” Is that a good strategy? Well it’s kind of hard to say it’s a bad strategy considering they’ve been absolutely dominating the competitors.
This new strategy, while obviously great for Nintendo, pretty much means the death of any Nintendo fanboy out there over the age of 15. This change in targeted audience has already started to rear its ugly head. Take Nintendo’s biggest title, SSBB, for example. The amount of crippling they have done to the online play is just a huge slap in the face, and don’t even get me started on their refusal to incorporate headsets.
I have an ominous feeling that after the last two big first party titles, Smash Bros. and Mario Kart Wii, are released that we’re going to see a very large shift in the type of games being developed. Expect to see a lot more crap like Cooking Mama and Horsez.
We all knew this day was coming, but it still hurts to officially hear it. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go cry in the corner for a couple hours while I mourn the loss of one of my best friends ever.
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7 responses so far ↓
1 Keith K // Jan 8, 2008 at 8:33 am
After seeing what they’ve been doing to our favorite industry.. bringing swarms of wrinkly old people into our cold, shark infested waters… I’d be happy to see Nintendo die once and for all.
Let’s face it; Nintendo peaked and crash at N64. Ocarina of Time was and will always be the greastest Zelda game. Mario 64 will always be the greastest Mario game. Star Fox 64, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark.. the list goes on.
When Nintendo realized they had no idea how to texture 3D models, they shifted their focus to trying to maintain a Low-Def market by peddling their sub-standard crap to people who really don’t know better.
Has it worked? As you said: Yes, for them. Has it done any of us any good? Absolutely not.
Imagine if Nintendo goes the way of Sega and we end up seeing Sonic, Mario and Link on the REAL consoles.. What a day that will be.
2 hentai2021 // Jan 8, 2008 at 8:36 am
maybe the next song made is how you lost your games.
3 The Ploogle // Jan 8, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I’m almost 17 and a Nintendo fan. I have to say that I’m pretty disappointed with this turn. This could mean that millions of people like me will switch to Microsoft.
Although, this just means we won’t be seeing many Nintendo games geared towards hard-core gamers. There still are third parties out there…
4 khit // Jan 8, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I can’t wait for the Nintendo fad to end, so we can shove this kind of talk in their face. I have a wii and there truely is nothing to play, a 10 hour mario game isn’t going to last me 5 months…
5 Rae // Jan 8, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Wii is fun when you’re drunk D:
6 Pablos102030 // Jan 8, 2008 at 6:19 pm
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
7 Jkrincon // Jan 8, 2008 at 7:57 pm
“There still are third parties out there”
The problem is that third pary games on the Wii are not selling nearly as well as the first party ones or the third party on other consoles.
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