Nintendo turned its back on hardcore gamers!!!!

This press conference made me mad...2 minutes of Metroid footage, no Galaxy footage, and no Brawl Footage...then 30 minutes of Wii Fit

Nintendo is turning away from gamers...and giving everything to the casuals, meaning way more money for Nintendo, but no good games for us

This press conference made me mad...2 minutes of Metroid footage, no Galaxy footage, and no Brawl Footage...then 30 minutes of Wii Fit

Nintendo is turning away from gamers...and giving everything to the casuals, meaning way more money for Nintendo, but no good games for us

hockeyruler12

This press conference made me mad...2 minutes of Metroid footage, no Galaxy footage, and no Brawl Footage...then 30 minutes of Wii Fit

Nintendo is turning away from gamers...and giving everything to the casuals, meaning way more money for Nintendo, but no good games for us

hockeyruler12

Before you start complaining, get your facts right. There was Galaxy footage (check it out on IGN or Gametrailers - it's E3 2007 Super Mario Galaxy trailer), there was Brawl footage (although only a few seconds - it's on smashbros.com now) and as for Wii Fit... well, everyone is exaggerating about that. They showed that for 15 minutes, no more. It wasn't half the conference, you can be sure of that.

my theory is if nintendo just went for the hardcore gamers it would lose sales but not only that but lose 3rd party support. More 1st party games get sold than 3rd party but what if nintendo took a back seat for a moment and allowed 3rd party developers to make some amazing games, it could increase 3rd party support while nintendo brings their casual games and some for the hardcore gamers, but thats just my theory.Mitazaki

Agreed, here are some hardcore games coming: Dragon Blade, Mp3, BWII, Mario Kart, Alien Syndrom, MOH, Red Steal 2, Resident Evil: UC, Final Fantasy: cccb, Dragon Quest sword, Gundam 0079, Victorious Boxers, SSBB, No More Heroes, Project Rygar, Mario Strike, Soul Caliber Legend, Rayman Raving Rabids 2, Fire Emblem, Ghost Squad, Endless Ocean, Boogie, DDR hotest party, Guitar Hero III, Disaster: Day of Crysis, King Story, Zack and Wiki, Geometry Wars: Galaxies, Mushroom Men, Space sation tycoon, Nigths...

my theory is if nintendo just went for the hardcore gamers it would lose sales but not only that but lose 3rd party support. More 1st party games get sold than 3rd party but what if nintendo took a back seat for a moment and allowed 3rd party developers to make some amazing games, it could increase 3rd party support while nintendo brings their casual games and some for the hardcore gamers, but thats just my theory.Mitazaki

Nintendo doesn't need to take a back seat for 3rd party developers to make a good game. If they make a good game and market it well, it will still sell.

The conference wasn't meant for hardcore gamers!!!KungfuKitten

LOL I don't know any causal gamers on this website and even so all the people in the crowd would be Hardcore, all the causal people would just wait to it hits the shovels or see it on T.V, not E3 come on Nintendo I love my wii but right now your pissing me off.

While that may be true, what can you do when you speak with your wallet and then 10 million casuals speak with theirs?

The way I see it is that the companies will never be able to keep the casuals on board. Eventually they'll lose interest and they'll HAVE to return to the hardcore set.

no -- they arent -- 5 'hardcore' games in 5 months is turning their backs on you? strikers -- july 30 metroid -- aug 27 bwii -- oct SMG -- Nov SSBB -- dec and thats excluding 3rd party support -- if anything you should thank nintendoHaziqonfire

Agreed, people are throwing a hissy fit over one fitness game out off five regular games. Makes me kind offembarrassed to call myself hardcore gamer.

*gets out world's smallest Violin*

*Starts Playin*

*Realize's your all just a bunch of Overreacting Whiner's and stops*

*Puts Violin Away, Continue's with life*

It isn't Nintendo that have changed its the gaming market, there just isn't enough money to be made from just catering to the hardcore gamer anymore Nintendo picked up on this and have now started a phenomenonwith both the DS and Wii. Nintendo would be lagging in third if they continued the way they did and probably would find themselves bust in the near future, Sony and Microsoft can get away with what they are doing because they generate revenue from other markets and making loses in the gaming market isn't hurting them like it would Nintendo.

Its amazing what the so called Hardcore gamer has become, nothing more than whiners and complainers who dont understand how the world works.Sepewrath

Its amazing what the so called Hardcore gamer has become, nothing more than whiners and complainers who dont understand how the world works. Let me clear it up for you, the press conferences are where the general media mixes with the gaming media, if you want to get out the news to the "expanded audience" that is the place to do it. You wont find many from the general media on the showroom floors or at the small conference ala the one where Brawl was actually revealed last year. Remember Brawl didnt make the conference last year at all. So stop complaining and think, this new style of E3 of all places doesnt really afford the mecca of gaming news that we are used to. I believe that most companies will have thier own shows to show thier products.Sepewrath

Because these so-called gamer are from a younger generation and the only thing they learned is to complain and not taking the time to think before posting. Oh we are in troubled time!!! lol

www.smashbros.com

New 15 second smashbros trailer that was played in the background at Nintendo's E3 conference.

no they didnt the games comin out this year proves it too

What the heck is a hardcore gamer??? a guy who only play games of violence and gore or a guy that stick with the game and play it no matter what untill is finished??? I don't know how old are you people but I'm 28 and I can say that in my time of life I see the envolving of the video games, since only shoot asteroid or ate pills and chase ghost with the atari till shake your control to perform a spin attack... The way of the video games are changing and we have to go with it if really we call ourseve "hardcore gamers".

Ok, I know that nintendog sukcs... badly, and dont menttion the freaking wii fit!!! c'mon!!!!!!! but there is another games like big brain academy, elite beat agent, phoenix wright, trauma center (I know, thesse are ds games, but the thing is that I got my wii this monday) that make me see where the future of the video games goes...

The only thing that I complain is that nintendo always release accesories for they consoles, like the zapper for example... how can I make a spin attackin zelda or play dragonquest or wiisport boxing with that thing!!!??? reminds me the NES's light gun, or the carpet, or the glove, or the robot (that I never knew for what was the us) and dont menttion that cristal chronicles was a pain in the @#$%& without the GBA...

Did you not hear what Iwata San said? Do you remember the first time you played a video game? How good it felt to become part of something that millions of people around the world are involved in? Nintendo is reaching out to people that will allow the market to continue growing at the rate it is. Don't be an Elitists. We weren't born Hardcore Gamers. We all had to pick up a controller at one point. The games for the "Hardcore" are still there. If gaming has tought us anything it's that Patience is a virtue and that what you don't see or hear about...will only surprise and excite you more when it hits.

no -- they arent -- 5 'hardcore' games in 5 months is turning their backs on you? strikers -- july 30 metroid -- aug 27 bwii -- oct SMG -- Nov SSBB -- dec and thats excluding 3rd party support -- if anything you should thank nintendoHaziqonfire

Yeah Nintendo still cares about hardcore gamers.