now the wiis will be hard to find due to oprah

Oprah Buys a Wii and now shes going to tell every one on her show go out and buy one.

TMZ's got the gaming scoop of the century. The end of hardcore gaming is nigh. Ms. Product Pusher herself, Oprah Winfrey, bought a Wii at a Wal-Mart in Hawaii recently. How does this equal death to hardcore? Well, you can bet Oprah will soon be extolling the incredible health and family-fun virtues associated with owning a Nintendo Wii after which every housewife desperate to fulfill the next Oprah product prophecy will head to a Gamestop and buy up all the Nintendo they can get their mits on.

In what economists have not ever called The Oprah Effect, that increased demand will trickle down to all corners of society by way of gift-giving aunts and misguided girlfriends who buy up solely Nintendo products forcing Microsoft and Sony completely out of business, leaving Carnival Games 3 the hottest holiday item in 2009.

It is written. Deal.

so do you guys believe in oprah telling us what to do is a good thing for woman who watches hertv show?

im a woman and i will never do what any celeb tells fans to do :)

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no i dont think its a good thing really also im surprised the Big N didnt just send Oprah a Wii when it first came out

Hardcore gamers died long ago when they decided that hardcore stopped and started with gallons of blood on screen at once. Oprah will introduce new gamers to gaming. And these aren't like 12 year old boys, they will be girls, women and other adults. When these gamers want something mature, I think the industry will improve vastly over the rut we're stuck in now. Girls, women and adults will probably want mature stories and characters and won't at all be interested in someobody trying to pass off the "Ultimate 14 Year Old Boy Experience" as if thats the end all be all of maturity.

This will have an impact. When Oprah says she started reading a book, that book shoots up to like #1 on Amazon and the New York Times almost instantly and that writer's career is officially launched. And its not like she says, "this is the best book i've ever read" or anything amazing about it. She could hold up a Pepsi bottle for 3 seconds at random and the next day you'd notice that all the sudden women aged 25+ suddenly have fallen in love with Pepsi and have bottles sticking out of their purses and all the sudden, royal blue and red are their favorite colors... the same way they did when Sarah Jessica Parker sported an iPod on Sex and the City.

I've never understood why people think that casual and hardcore gaming is an either/or thing. Every single hardcore gamer in existence today probably began as a casual gamer. You don't go from zero to playing thirteen hours a day in one motion. Some people who are picking up a Wii as their first console will never play anything other than Wii Sports and Wii Fit, but others might become curious what else there is, like what they find, and slowly start to become a more dedicated gamer. Casual gamers are important; if nothing is ever created for casual gamers, then video gaming will die in one generation. That's just a fact.

But even so, there will always be hardcore gamers out there. They might cease to be the vast majority, but as long as complex, well-designed games geared towards the hardcore are still selling millions of copies (which they are), games will still be made for those people.

Who cares what Oprah buys?toadster101

Millions of middle-aged women?

Oprah: i bought a wii everyone!

Public: Oh Oprah bought it lets buy it too!

Ninty: ****! up production to 10 mil a month!!11!!

Funny, I figured she'd endorse the PS3 since it's the black candidate in the console race.clicketyclick

:| funnies fail

[QUOTE="toadster101"]Who cares what Oprah buys?TAKE_IT_BACK

Millions of middle-aged women?

Oprah: i bought a wii everyone!

Public: Oh Oprah bought it lets buy it too!

Ninty: ****! up production to 10 mil a month!!11!!

Good point.

...but I don't think there's any middle-aged women here.

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[QUOTE="toadster101"]Who cares what Oprah buys?toadster101

Millions of middle-aged women?

Oprah: i bought a wii everyone!

Public: Oh Oprah bought it lets buy it too!

Ninty: ****! up production to 10 mil a month!!11!!

Good point.

...but I don't think there's any middle-aged women here.

But people outside of game sites actually do buy games.

Plus theres probably a few.

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[QUOTE="toadster101"]Who cares what Oprah buys?Tjeremiah1988

Millions of middle-aged women?

Oprah: i bought a wii everyone!

Public: Oh Oprah bought it lets buy it too!

Ninty: ****! up production to 10 mil a month!!11!!

Good point.

...but I don't think there's any middle-aged women here.

.

lol, I'm just playing around. :lol:

Nearly everybody on this forum already has a Wii anyway. As long as she doesn't have a Wii Fit special, everything should be fine.

Hardcore gamers died long ago when they decided that hardcore stopped and started with gallons of blood on screen at once. Oprah will introduce new gamers to gaming. And these aren't like 12 year old boys, they will be girls, women and other adults. When these gamers want something mature, I think the industry will improve vastly over the rut we're stuck in now. Girls, women and adults will probably want mature stories and characters and won't at all be interested in someobody trying to pass off the "Ultimate 14 Year Old Boy Experience" as if thats the end all be all of maturity.

This will have an impact. When Oprah says she started reading a book, that book shoots up to like #1 on Amazon and the New York Times almost instantly and that writer's career is officially launched. And its not like she says, "this is the best book i've ever read" or anything amazing about it. She could hold up a Pepsi bottle for 3 seconds at random and the next day you'd notice that all the sudden women aged 25+ suddenly have fallen in love with Pepsi and have bottles sticking out of their purses and all the sudden, royal blue and red are their favorite colors... the same way they did when Sarah Jessica Parker sported an iPod on Sex and the City.

Senor_Kami

hardcore gaming isnt about blood dude. if you would actually play a game like halo or fable, or even baldurs gate, you would realize the appeal comes from the satisfaction comes from the feeling of achievment you get when you finish a level or kill a boss.

by the way, cobra commander pales in the awe inspiring might of skeletor.

.....must...resist....saying......wii is killing hardcore gaming..........sheep...will.....flame me!Lyphe2k

u cant totaly blame the wii mircosoft is doing its part and so are us consumers

this is too funny :lol:

thats all i have to say

Who cares what Oprah buys?toadster101

have you seen books oprah reccomends people buy those things like hotcakes

[QUOTE="toadster101"]Who cares what Oprah buys?TAKE_IT_BACK

Millions of middle-aged women?

Oprah: i bought a wii everyone!

Public: Oh Oprah bought it lets buy it too!

Ninty: ****! up production to 10 mil a month!!11!!

[QUOTE="Senor_Kami"]

Hardcore gamers died long ago when they decided that hardcore stopped and started with gallons of blood on screen at once. Oprah will introduce new gamers to gaming. And these aren't like 12 year old boys, they will be girls, women and other adults. When these gamers want something mature, I think the industry will improve vastly over the rut we're stuck in now. Girls, women and adults will probably want mature stories and characters and won't at all be interested in someobody trying to pass off the "Ultimate 14 Year Old Boy Experience" as if thats the end all be all of maturity.

This will have an impact. When Oprah says she started reading a book, that book shoots up to like #1 on Amazon and the New York Times almost instantly and that writer's career is officially launched. And its not like she says, "this is the best book i've ever read" or anything amazing about it. She could hold up a Pepsi bottle for 3 seconds at random and the next day you'd notice that all the sudden women aged 25+ suddenly have fallen in love with Pepsi and have bottles sticking out of their purses and all the sudden, royal blue and red are their favorite colors... the same way they did when Sarah Jessica Parker sported an iPod on Sex and the City.

fryerjackets

hardcore gaming isnt about blood dude. if you would actually play a game like halo or fable, or even baldurs gate, you would realize the appeal comes from the satisfaction comes from the feeling of achievment you get when you finish a level or kill a boss.

by the way, cobra commander pales in the awe inspiring might of skeletor.

I find it ironic how the same people that say hardcore gamers generalize casual gamers as being misinformed, end up generilzing hardcore gamers as a bunch of blood thirsty prepubescent boys.

[QUOTE="toadster101"]Who cares what Oprah buys?Wafa23

have you seen books oprah reccomends people buy those things like hotcakes

It's true. If a book ends up on her booklist it starts selling like mad. Will the same thing happen for the wii:shock:

[QUOTE="Lyphe2k"].....must...resist....saying......wii is killing hardcore gaming..........sheep...will.....flame me!webbut

u cant totaly blame the wii mircosoft is doing its part and so are us consumers

Of course not. Video gaming is too big of an industry to blame on just one thing. But Wii is doing more than its part.

Here's the way I see it: It's either going to end up in two ways.

1. The Wii will attract more casual gamers, and in future generations, those gamers are going to get more passionate about gaming, causing more sales and an increase on those hardcore games that we're missing out on now. This will lead to a prosperity in video games.

or....

2. The Wii will prove that as long as you can sell shovelware the right way, the casual audience will eat it up; and set the stage for PS3 and 360 going to same way as the Wii. This will probably lead to the demise of gaming.

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[QUOTE="toadster101"]Who cares what Oprah buys?raahsnavj

Millions of middle-aged women?

Oprah: i bought a wii everyone!

Public: Oh Oprah bought it lets buy it too!

Ninty: ****! up production to 10 mil a month!!11!!

Well they increased it already. If that isn't enough, then wow, just wow.

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[QUOTE="toadster101"]Who cares what Oprah buys?TAKE_IT_BACK

Millions of middle-aged women?

Oprah: i bought a wii everyone!

Public: Oh Oprah bought it lets buy it too!

Ninty: ****! up production to 10 mil a month!!11!!

Well they increased it already. If that isn't enough, then wow, just wow.

im a woman and i will never do what any celeb tells fans to do :)

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Terribaby

Agreed.

yeah this is bad! good thing i preordered mine before it came out lol, i still remember the sad faces of some kids and guys that couldnt get one on the launch date lol

BTW raahsnavj i love your avatar!

I've never understood why people think that casual and hardcore gaming is an either/or thing. Every single hardcore gamer in existence today probably began as a casual gamer. You don't go from zero to playing thirteen hours a day in one motion. Some people who are picking up a Wii as their first console will never play anything other than Wii Sports and Wii Fit, but others might become curious what else there is, like what they find, and slowly start to become a more dedicated gamer. Casual gamers are important; if nothing is ever created for casual gamers, then video gaming will die in one generation. That's just a fact.GabuEx

Here's the way I see it: It's either going to end up in two ways.

1. The Wii will attract more casual gamers, and in future generations, those gamers are going to get more passionate about gaming, causing more sales and an increase on those hardcore games that we're missing out on now. This will lead to a prosperity in video games.or....

2. The Wii will prove that as long as you can sell shovelware the right way, the casual audience will eat it up; and set the stage for PS3 and 360 going to same way as the Wii. This will probably lead to the demise of gaming.Lyphe2k

I think the problem is one of definition. Casual gamers are not the same as casual games. As Gabu rightly pointed out, a casual gamer is merely defined by the number of hours they play. I, by definition, am a casual gamer cuz I'm in university most of the year and don't have that much time to play. But just because someone is a casual gamer does not mean they enjoy the so-called "casual games" that are being churned out for them.

The games being made for this insurgency of casual gamers are: simple, lack plot, easy, basic, novelty. Developers are treating casual gamers as if they're idiots and simply wouldn't comprehend something unless it is dumbed down, just because these gamers don't play as much as others. How much you play affects only the time it will take you to complete a game, not the kind of games you enjoy, same with books and movies. You can be a voracious reader and only read trashy page-turners and you can watch movies rarely, but be a connoisseur of foreign cinema.

So I guess the reason why I quoted Lyphe as well is because I'm trying to say that the problem is not with casual gamers - they're not going to be the ones to decide which way it goes. The problem is with developers, including but certainly not limited to Nintendo. Unless they realise that casual gamers will enjoy Okami and Mario if they know about them, and are certainly capable of playing them and not getting their pretty little heads confused, we will keep seeing things go in a bad direction for gaming.

Casual gamers are not the enemy and are not to be feared. Developers who think "casual gamer" is synonymous with "confused retard are.

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no i dont think its a good thing really also im surprised the Big N didnt just send Oprah a Wii when it first came out

Serraph105

dang oprah!!!

well, we learned one thing today......

PH33R TEH OPRAH!!!