Nintendo Wii: The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few
A ranter at techradar.com tends to sound dumbfounded in his article, by success of the Wii and why roughly 25 million people have purchased one. If you read many game site rants towards the Wii you can see the same pattern. Traditional gamers just don’t seem to understand the Wii’s success. In my opinion Nintendo has come up with an amazing business plan and it worked! As long ago as 2005, Satoru Iwata made it clear that they would focus on nontraditional gamers and go after the non-gamers or the parents of that gamer. Well turns out, Nintendo did Just that!
What does it take to attract a non-gamer? Well take a look at the Wii games current gamers are calling crap on the Wii. Take a hard look at their ugly faces and realize this is the face of success. Nintendo has found out what non-gamers like and are creating games to cater to them. This doesn’t mean Nintendo developers are not creating traditional games. However, It appears the “Hard-core gamer” doesn’t want to see these casual games at all. It seems in retaliation, game reviewers give these casual games very low rating scores and horrible reviews. There is enough evidence in sales to show how ineffective game reviews are on these casual games. For instance, look at the reviews or rankings of Carnival Games, Mario Vs Sonic, and Wii Play. These games have been very successful in sales.
The Nintendo bashing article here.
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April 29th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
I think the Wii is a very social gaming console, and that is something new to the genre. As a kid, and as an adult, most of my gaming has been one or two peeps sitting around repetitively pressing buttons.
The Wii adds a social aspect, where the difficulty of the game is not of upmost importance, but rather, how entertaining it is to play it with others.