I how ever would like to see more shooters of all types for the Wii. For the wiimote to pull a mouse gamer in has to say something about hardcore gaming right there. If you asked me I would say “PC shooter games are the definition of hardcore gaming” any one who has competed seriously in quake, ut, cs would no doubt say the same thing.

I’m real excited about both the DS and Wii game lineup for the end of 07 however.

I think the later is the point no one thinking about. Think about games like Time Crisis where you have to duck behind boxes. Or stealth games where you have to balance across rooftops or tight ropes. Think about the possibilities for virtual reality Nintendo is pushing for. The problem is that often gamers are used to their sequel after sequel and it takes stark contrast sometimes to revitalize everything. Remember what people said about Link in Wind Waker and now its an instant classic. Or what was said about a 3D Metroid…. um I think that turned out classic too. Or what about a fad system that was supposed to have had its clock cleaned by the PS3. Are we seeing a trend here?

Ultimately we know not all ideas work but the great thing is that Nintendo is never going to stop being innovative and introducing the world to different ways of playing video games. Imagine playing games with no rumble features, (how dynamic that made things). And how about Track and Field, would we have DDR without that classic NES pad? Do you think Sony or MS are pushing for these new ideas or are they the true conformists?

I do agree that it seems like some gamers are getting angry when they hear people getting excited for different games like Wii Fit. I also agree that it doesn’t harm us gamers since they also come out with more mainstream games as well. Nintendo has always been the pioneers to try new and different things so I like to keep an open mind with them. Some things fail but the things that work, work well. I would like to add that I feel the Wii has made video games more acceptable to women, since i have several girl friends who play the Wii but would never play any other system…

the reason there making games like wii fit,is for people who have always thought video games were for 30 year old men still living with there parents.Wii Fit shows how even a video game can,at be healthy for hand eye coordination and now with all of your body coordination,and you still shoud’nt complain cuz’ of course there still going to make games for extreme gamers like me and you,such as metroid,mario,zelda,smash bros.,I mean there making so many old remakes just for thewii,like driver:paralell lines,destroy all humans! etc.,and if that’s not eneough to make everyone pleased they even have a system where you can even download your favorite old games from the nes,snes,n64 plus much much more….if you ask me,the wii is possibbly the only system that can truly make anyone happy

^That’s the issue. It’s when experienced gamers come out and dog out a new game aimed for inexperienced or all audiences.
What Nintendo is doing is pleasing all audience, and that’s that. The experienced gamers act like they don’t want to share or something..

// Roth

On another note, Nintendo is still catering to the hardcore fans, I mean they didn’t kill of Mario, Zelda or Metroid, so what’s the issue?

I believe all this is going according to plan. Years from now when people look back at this, they’ll see what Miyamoto meant and was trying to achieve at this point with the Wii and DS. Before we know it, we’ll be a unity of ‘gamers’.

// Roth