Thursday, February 26, 2009

Wii gone Wrong

First off, I would like to apologise for not posting my WTT recently. College has gotten me bogged down. Now, for business.
I just took a very depressing trip to Wal-Mart, looking for shoes. After I found a pair I wanted, I trotted over to the VG section. You know what I saw? Row upon row of half-baked third-party Wii games. I mean, who would buy games with a title like "Game party", or "Game Party 2", or "Game Party 2: Tournament". Besides just being sucky games, it's just plain bad economics.
First off, there's the fault of third-parties. Nobody wants to buy a crummy kiddy party game for the Wii! All we need is Mario Party 8! Plus, we don't need to be fed all this crap about "We're widening the audience." Nintendo has been getting a bad rap as a "kiddy" system maker for a while now, and you're actually making it worse by confirming that with your cruddy kiddy party games. What you're actually doing is SHRINKING the audience, turning away older potential buyers from buying a great system. So please, if you're going to release a game for the Wii, Please, PLEASE put a little effort into it and NO MORE LAME PARTY GAMES. The Wii is an amazing system with unimaginable potential, and all you've been doing is damaging its rep.
And lastly, Nintendo is also partly to blame. Partly for letting this flood of lukewarm party games onto the market, and partly because you have promised not to release us any trademark iconic Nintendo games for over a year. If you don't release any good "Nintendo" games, you'll end up in the exact same boat as Sony: "Any good exclusive games? No? Okay, I'll go for the 360." Please. We don't want this to happen. Release some solid, GOOD, well-thought-out games for us, and stop this deluge of half-baked games. Thank you.

~HS

1 comment:

  1. I totally agree. The Wii can support some great game mechanics (Brawl, Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart) so developers need to stop making excuses like "The Wii can handle these graphics" or "No serious gamer owns a Wii".

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