Analyst: Wii Fit advertising killing Nintendo hardcore crowd

TruthbeTold - 615 days 17 hours ago

What an idiot. When are people going to realize that stuff like Wii Fit (don't know if I'm ready exactly to call it a game yet) is bringing new people into the gaming world. Even if some mother buys Wii Fit and never plays another video game, the very idea of Video games has become acceptable and o.k. in her mind for her kids. Thus, she will buy them the games that THEY request regardless of whether she wants to play them.

Many gamers will buy Wii Fit out of curiosity, or in hopes that cool games come out in the future which use it (and likely they will come). The casual crowd will buy it, and many of them will see for the first time the rest of the gaming world and consider it. Unless something like this, which attracts them and pulls them in, they'd never even care about gaming.

The children who play kiddie games on the Wii, the Teens and young adults who play party and casual games, many of them will become hardcore as they learn to love gaming and seek something different, or more serious. This benefits the entire industry in the long run. As long as the Hardcore keep buying serious games, Developers will never stop making them. As long as new gamers are being brought in, new crops of the Hardcore will continue to sprout. Wii Fit is expanding the market, not hurting it. (Unless of course you consider games that you personally dislike to be inherently bad for gaming, which is pathetically arrogant and selfish.)

Most of the people who buy Wii Fit (The Oprah Crowd) would likely never have considered video games in the first place, their kids will play the hell out of the console when they aren't using it, and one day, they will want and get more serious games.

Nintendo has already come out with a Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Metroid, Mario Kart and Smash Bros game for the Wii in its first year and a half. Not only can they afford currently to try something like Wii Fit to bring new gamers in, and experiment with a different style of gaming, they have no intention of halting their creation of classic Nintendo hardcore style games. New Kid Icarus, Pikmin, Zelda, and Pokemon games are in the works right now.

I'm sick of hearing people make these false statements just because they personally don't like the idea of Wii Fit. Most of those people probably don't own, or plan to own a Wii anyway. Why feel threatened? You have your 1080p, your shooters where you aim with your thumbs, your realistic racers, and smooth epic RPG's with no end in sight. Be happy and quit hating. Nintendo is building up the gaming crowds numbers, and all will benefit. Eventually.

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PS360WII - 615 days 15 hours ago

Yeah I'm sorry but one game aimed at the non gamer is not going to turn away leigons of the hardcore. If that was the case then Singstar, DDR, GH, Buzz, and many more casual games would of killed off all those hardcore PS2 fans.

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BeaArthur - 615 days 15 hours ago

The bottom line is that hardcore gamers will continue to play games they like. If you think something like Wii Fit is going to keep people from playing Zelda then this guy is even dumber than he appears. Hardcore gamers don't need advertising, we already know more about a game than any advertising campaign could ever tell us.

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rwalrond - 615 days 14 hours ago

When will this crap ever end? I know everybody experiences are different but I went out and purchased a Wii when it first came out, started playing some games with the kids, started liking games again after 15 years, thought, maybe I should get myself an X360 or PS3 and try out these "hardcore" games. So I did, now not only do I play the Wii but I'm playing Rainbow six on my PS3 as well. Guess what? When Wii Fit comes out I'm buying that too, am I alone on this one guys? Is it possible that the Wii can help casual gamers become more hardcore? Come find me on Rainbow six and figure it out for yourself.

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NarsilianShard - 615 days 10 hours ago

since when did the wii have a hardcore crowd?

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--Onilink-- - 615 days 10 hours ago

What i dont understand about most people, is how they complain that nintendo is only aiming at the casual crowd and yet if you look at the games released so far, in just 1 year and a half nintendo has given us almost all of its biggest frnachises(mario galaxy, zelda twilight princess, metroid prime 3, super smash bros brawl, mario kart) something we certainly didnt see on the gc or N64, and we'll probably see 1 or 2 more these year.

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--Onilink-- - 615 days 10 hours ago

and about mario kart, if you actually read the reviews you can see that the problem is mostly on single player 150cc, but the rest is ok, especially online, we finally get a game with great online options and all you people do is complain, i really doubt that nintendo is thinking on the casual crowd on the online part of mario kart

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SteveZim1017 - 615 days 10 hours ago

Great Post TruthbeTold, I agree 100% although there are a few below you that dont seem to understand what you meant.

And I am so tired of hearing the Nintendo whining... "I have had every console and this one sucks. the original nintendo was awsome and totally made rockin games for me when I was 10 years old. Now Nintendo is stupid for making a console that has more games for 10 year olds than for me now that I'm 30!!"

Nintendo makes games that are enjoyable for kids and adults. ALWAYS HAVE, they havent changed, you have!!!

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forum_crawler - 615 days 9 hours ago

I don't know if I am a hardcore wii gamer, I play games that I like, and that is it. What my wii can't play I play on my PC with all the eye candy turned on.

Wii fit will be a hit, and I will buy one. Those who can't buy it because it isn't "hardcore" enough for them are silly. Those who won't buy it because it isn't their thing are smart (especially if they don't complain about it).

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Kwertie - 615 days 9 hours ago

I'm sick of this nobody spouting negative stuff about Wii and Xbox360. Who the hell is he anyway?

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Perverted - 614 days 15 hours ago

Wiis hardcore crowd where killed off long ago....

We just becomes zombies for a month when a decent hardcore game comes out then die again.

Gamers and non gamers alike will buy this game some out of curiosty some desperate to get fit and others because they have too much money, but lets stop the hate on N4G and start to spread the love :D to each their own and all that.

The Wii is my most played console and I would consider myself hardcore...but my 360 requires cash to play online and all it seems to have are fps(meh)...

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jinn - 615 days 1 hour ago

there never was a HARDCORE CROWD

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wiizy - 614 days 16 hours ago

those analyst must have stock in sony and microsoft..hoping nintendo doesnt advertise wiifit so the sales doesnt kill grand theft auto 4's sales... too bad , they'll be crying along with the fanboys for those consoles.

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