Hey Nintendo – pictured above is the WiiSpeak peripheral that came with Animal Crossing six months ago. Can you please release another game that uses it? Or maybe talk to one of your eager 3rd party developers about it? Apparently The Conduit will use it, but The Conduit can also apparently grant wishes and emits a delightful floral scent. So anyway, please, WiiSpeak works great … please use it for something else!
There are a decent variety of shooters, but I distilled them down to four essential types. First-person shooters (FPS) like Sega’s upcoming The Conduit, on-rails shooters like House Of The Dead Overkill, Shoot ‘em ups (SHMUPS) like Gradius ReBirth, or scrollers like Metal Slug 7.
Vote and then tell us which game is your favorite shooter in comments!
Out of the top 20 selling games of 2008, less than half of them fit the profile of what type of game this MSNBC article considers appealing to the hard-core or serious gamer. So I think the question shouldn’t be “can the Wii win back the hard-core gamer,” but rather “does the hard-core gamer still matter?”
The article goes on to say that Nintendo’s original ‘core gamers’ who grew up on Super Mario Bros are disappointed in games like Wii Sports Resort, but I think high sales of games like Mario Kart and Guitar Hero prove that the core audience is shifting to less mature titles.
Do you think violent/mature game fans should still be considered core gamers?
