Nintendo: Hardcore gamers 'critically important to us'

gaffyh - 519 days 12 hours ago

Nintendo's E3 conference was like a big pile of fail, but they don't care about Hardcore anymore, Nintendo has got it's sales from the casual crowd. The ones that won't buy another game for the system, but they still bought the system and that's all Nintendo cares about.

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sidar - 519 days 14 hours ago

Because they used E3 for something else?
E3 =/= judgement day.
Get over it =/.

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Boink - 519 days 12 hours ago

I consider myself somwhere between a casual and hardcore gamer, but there are 2 casaul gamers in my household and nintendo's e3 didn't even excite them.

nintendo failed e3. not that it will affect their sales one bit as their gravy train just keeps on rolling...

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cmd5150 - 519 days 10 hours ago

a Nintendo fanboy rears his ugly head. Sidar, what exactly did they use E3 for?

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sidar - 519 days 9 hours ago

they used it for Casual nonsense
Not for "core" stuff.
Thats my point.

"something else" > Casual stuff.

You guys expected loads of " core " information, but they used this E3 for Something else: Casual information.

You guys sure like to take stuff twist, bend and take it out of context.

Seriously get over it, what you going to do about it?
It sucked so freaking what its not the end of the world =/.

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cmd5150 - 519 days 10 hours ago

Animal Crossing? You have got to be kidding me.

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madjedi - 518 days 23 hours ago

Even as a graphics whore i have to disagree on one thing, nintendo would not need to have hd graphics to cater to their hardcore gamers(they already know it isn't a high end console).

They do however need good solid games, action/adventure, rpgs, mature(something more complicated than a 5 yr old can handle), yes third parties are slow making these, but the question is will they sell enough for sequels/new ips.

Having said the wii doesn't do hd graphics, would it really kill nintendo to try and actually push its hardware's capabilities some on it's games.

edit nintendo is improving their online supposedly, maybe in a year you will see some of what i wrote below actually addresssed lol

Also nintendo needs to stop screwing around with online and get serious, copy psn or live whichever and give the user the option of being identified by a name for all games.

Instead of a borg designation, while your at it drop the stupid wii speak and/or sell a headset for people that want to talk to one person. Not have to listen to every sound in the room/house and the one person they are trying to carry on an actual conversation with.

If nintendo is serious about vc and wii being a option for it's user base, release an hd or a firmware update so that people can use a external usb had drive.

If nintendo did these things, the wii might actually get some respect from hardcore gamers, with the exception of the nintendo defenders. Who view it as inferior or substandard to the ps3 or 360 and i am not even talking about graphics or multimedia here.

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sidar - 519 days 9 hours ago

Thats what Third party developers ARE Doing.
As result people like you say Wii has no "core" games.

And why do you people pretend Nintendo is the only one with games?
Seriously third partys are suddenly dead or something?

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madjedi - 519 days ago

Great first party effort there( yeah i know), well hopefully for you guys nintendo will wake up, and atleast solve the storage solution. Although it looks like wii ware is a low priority for nintendo, amongst other things.

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