Nintendo is a business. It can make more money from making gaming fluff and selling it to Sun readers. Fine. Have fun looking over your accounts Nintendo. I'll be having fun wherever the fantastic gaming experiences arise, and unfortunately it looks like you are too busy counting your money to join me there.
I am in a niche? So be it. It wasn't my idea to bring video games to the masses anyhow.
How right you are. If your console doesn't have 11 new FPSs every month, it's not a "core" machine and the 13% of the market that enjoys that kind of thing is up in arms. Boo Hoo!
Yet again I would argue that a Hardcore gamer is someone who doesn't just buy a million FPS games with shaven-headed muscle men in power-armour. A hardcore gamer is someone who makes the effort to buy games that generally turn out to be complete commercial faliures. Games that feature content that inspire awe and contemplation. Games that express emotion through both their artistry and their game mechanics. Games made by developers that need the hardcore to buy experiences overlooked by the new gaming masses who are ready to consume artistically stunted, temporary distractions.
Jesus. So what your saying is that core gamers are couch-potatoes who get tired holding a remote control and will only look at a video game if it renders 1080p mutilation. Not at all prejudiced.
I would consider myself a core gamer. I bought over 50 games for my Gamecube. I must say your apple core analogy was slightly pathetic truth be told. So as a core gamer I should just shut my mouth, waddle back to my cave and find something else to do, as apparently the fact that I have been playing video games for over twenty years and require a game that poses some kind of challenge and includes a small amount of artistic content means that my money isn't welcome in Nintendo's bank account any more?
In my book the 'Hardcore' gamer is one who specifically buys games like Okami, Psychonauts, Beyond Good & Evil, Ico and all the other great games out there that categorically are not Gears of War clones, to support the people who make such wonderful content. Where exactly are these types of games on the Wii? All I keep seeing are things like interactive crossword puzzles/ IQ tests, cynical licensed rubbish and sports games. They may well all have good interactive design but they seem to offer little in the way of artistic expression.
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The virtual console covers hardcore gamers needs? What by making them pay again for games they have probably already played?
Overall my thoughts are these.
Nintendo is a business. It can make more money from making gaming fluff and selling it to Sun readers. Fine. Have fun looking over your accounts Nintendo. I'll be having fun wherever the fantastic gaming experiences arise, and unfortunately it looks like you are too busy counting your money to join me there.
I am in a niche? So be it. It wasn't my idea to bring video games to the masses anyhow.
How right you are. If your console doesn't have 11 new FPSs every month, it's not a "core" machine and the 13% of the market that enjoys that kind of thing is up in arms. Boo Hoo!
Yet again I would argue that a Hardcore gamer is someone who doesn't just buy a million FPS games with shaven-headed muscle men in power-armour. A hardcore gamer is someone who makes the effort to buy games that generally turn out to be complete commercial faliures. Games that feature content that inspire awe and contemplation. Games that express emotion through both their artistry and their game mechanics. Games made by developers that need the hardcore to buy experiences overlooked by the new gaming masses who are ready to consume artistically stunted, temporary distractions.
Jesus. So what your saying is that core gamers are couch-potatoes who get tired holding a remote control and will only look at a video game if it renders 1080p mutilation. Not at all prejudiced.
I would consider myself a core gamer. I bought over 50 games for my Gamecube. I must say your apple core analogy was slightly pathetic truth be told. So as a core gamer I should just shut my mouth, waddle back to my cave and find something else to do, as apparently the fact that I have been playing video games for over twenty years and require a game that poses some kind of challenge and includes a small amount of artistic content means that my money isn't welcome in Nintendo's bank account any more?
In my book the 'Hardcore' gamer is one who specifically buys games like Okami, Psychonauts, Beyond Good & Evil, Ico and all the other great games out there that categorically are not Gears of War clones, to support the people who make such wonderful content. Where exactly are these types of games on the Wii? All I keep seeing are things like interactive crossword puzzles/ IQ tests, cynical licensed rubbish and sports games. They may well all have good interactive design but they seem to offer little in the way of artistic expression.
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