What do people say about Nintendo being market leader again? Some people have gotten very hostile about it. I know a friend of mine who's still entirely dumbfounded about the idea of Monster Hunter 3 on the Wii. "Okami I can see, but Monster Hunter? That's a load of crap! Why on a kids system?! (this is despite the numerous adults 30 and up that I've seen on numerous occasions come in there to ask for a Wii themselves)" "It won't handle the game well at all" (despite the 7 year old PS2 seemed to have no problem with it) Tell them development costs and all of a sudden they don't want to hear or believe it's the case. This friend is one of many of the Gamestop and EB workers that think and act just like this.
It's not just the game stores either, their lords, the gaming press as of late has been really interesting to observe. On what I believe is the latest EGM I remember seeing an article title on the front cover saying something around the lines of Wii Crap. Unfortunately I haven't been able to actually read the article, but knowing how EGM/1up have been about the Wii lately I already have a hunch as to where it's going. Game Informer seems to have uped the ante when it comes to anti-establishment games and have managed to become more and more annoying. Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games was shredded to bits, but one section of the review infuriated me to no end. I can't remember exactly what it said but the way it put it sounded something like "Graphics: Primary Colors, HAR HAR HAR! 3." It made me do a double take and had me asking "What the f*ck is their problem?!" And truth be told, this ain't the only title they've done like this either. Paper Mario was trashed because it was supposedly a childs game too, but in both cases I think there was something far more troubling going on. I remember putting the magazines away long time ago because their definition of a great game and mine were so different to the point where the magazines became irrelevant. The thing is, the majority of people reading those magazines were the type of gamers that the industry was primarily catering to so to them losing folks like me was probably no big deal since they still in a sense held the ace card. The thing is, for something like the Wii to take off the way it has means that their very definition of what a game is is being crushed by this new influx of a wide variety of new players. Carnival Games gets destroyed in the mags and yet it's probably killing them inside to see it sell 300,000 copies and is probably looking to inch on into the 400,000 mark. (I'm not saying the game is 10 out of 10 material or anything, but at the same time something about it must be decent enough for it to make those numbers. Ditto goes for Mario and Sonic) It looks to me as if a lot of these guys fear their livelihoods going down the toilet especially with them knowing that Nintendo PURPOSELY sidestepped them to sell the console. What's happening is that these guys are gradually becoming irrelevant. Let the Wii gain even more steam, don't be surprised if within the next couple of years either some of these publications will close down or they will change with the coming times.
Topic: What do people say about Nintendo being market leader again? (Read 16663 times)
