[QUOTE="FoamingPanda"][QUOTE="sexy_luigi"]will we be seeing this damage control the whole way throughout this generation when nintendo dominates the competetion?DSgamer64
You mean one of MANY valid points that critique Nintendo and the Wii?
I'm sorry if you're so indoctrinated by a company who wishes nothing more to steal money out of your pocket by any means neccessary that you can't see when you're being stiffed. Nintendo has completely bastardized the potential of next-gen consoles and franchises on Nintendo. You're being offered vastly inferior products under the illusion that what you play is both next gen and worth your money.
I've composed a few articles on why the Wii is terrible, and why all consumers who care anything about gaming should view the Wii for what it is. Check my profile for more info.Â
Funny considering consoles are designed for one thing, and thats playing games. Sony and M$ seem to think that gamers should have to shell out over 400 dollars for a console and a couple of games while adding all this useless crap like Live Arcade and Home. Gamers shouldnt be forced to pay huge amounts of money just to play games, its all about the experience and having fun. Thats something people like you need to learn. Nintendo's philosophy is one that is making them money and innovating the gaming world and tools like you are too blind to realise that they are the only company who is trying to turn around the gaming industry instead of just rehashing consoles and franchises with the same old gameplay. Also, Wii sales debunk any arguments that its going to be a crap system, cause so far myself like many have enjoyed what we got out of it and the future is going to be great for the system. Besides I dont want to have to wait 2 years for my favourite franchises to come out and not having enough games to play inbetween the big titles, which is what is going to screw over Sony and M$.
Consumers like you do not seem to understand that there is no intrinsic aspect of gaming that makes it any different than any other form of popular media. You restrict the meaning and depth of gaming to nothing more than a simple child's plaything -- an object that faciliates only the lowest and most simple forms of pleasure/entertainment -- out of neccessity or misunderstanding.
You don't seem to understand that the complexity of games over the last ten years has exposed the wonderful potential for gaming as a valid form of art. There is no aspect of a console that makes it physically not capable of rendering games so deep, meaningful, and complex that they could be revered as a great work of art. The only factors which limit the potential of games are consumer demand, negative stereotypes,
You forget that most of the games people cherish are natural extensions and steps along the progression of games to a respectable artform. These games recieve richer graphics, broader plots, and more dynamic enviroments with each and every generation. When you say, "games have only been for fun," you don't seem to understand how badly you're contradicting yourself.Â
Or, you simply might be so desperate to support a paticular developer that you deem it neccessary to explicitly limit the function of games to little more than a childish plaything. But, most likely, your taste in games contradicts such a notion.
The problem is not that Nintendo IS branching out to non-gamers, but the MEANS by which they branch out to non-gamers. Instead of attracting the non-gaming market by showing consumers that video games are so complex, rich, and meaningful that they can faciliate ANY sort of artistic vision (including visions that simply aim to produce entertainment), Nintendo reinforces the negative stereotype that games are simply a childish plaything --
purchase a Wii because swinging your wrist to hit the ball is FUN.
But I ask you, is this all games are? Why should we be satisfied with such a narrow, pathetic, and shallow conception of games?Â
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