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Wii: Killing video games?
Once again...
Trying to stop the Spam in another thread where the statement came up... "The Wii is the cancer killing the games market. With all their releases of shitty rehashes and shovelware doing so well." Is the Wii really killing the Video Game market? Will Nintendo cause another crash equal (Or not) to the one of 1983 with their continual release of mostly below-average games? Discuss. 
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#2
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I think video games are dying just fine without the Wii. If anything, the Wii is just adapting to a new market. Video games are changing to meet the tastes of a new generation and us old gamers are being left in the dust.
I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan, but I must say I am disappointed with the Wii. There have only been a hand full of good games and I don't really care for the controls. The only saving grace it has is complete backwards compatibility with the Gamecube and Virtual Console. That being said, it is still my favorite of the three. The 360 really hasn't impressed me with much of anything and there aren't enough games to warrant the PS3's expensive price tag. Overall I say its a pretty bad time for video games.
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#3
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Maybe Killing it, is too strong of a word.
But it's making video games progessively worse and showing games designers that they needn't bother, because what's the point of making a new creative game when Imagine Game#23457 or a Mario rehash is doing better in sales?
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#4
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Nah. It's poor, casually-slanted design that's killing video games, not the console.
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#5
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PS3 and 360 has just as much crap released as Wii.
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#7
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I agree that the Wii is lacking a large amount of really good content with their games (not that their aren't any, but as a whole...), but I still love the console and most of the games I've bought. I certainly wouldn't blame a worldwide decline in video game quality on a single console.
On the topic of the Wii remote and its controls, I actually really like them. I've never had a problem with them. In any case, I'd take it over the Gamecube controller anyday. Last edited by Ohara; 2 Weeks Ago at 02:00 AM.
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#8
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I don't think the Wii is killing the gaming industry, more or less, it's trying to broaden it. Nintendo wants to expands the audience of gaming to everyone. Personally, I am just fine with this. Why? Look at Jack Thompson and his huge protest against video games. Video games of the past give activists like him a lot of dirt and influence to start a campaign like his. The Wii seems to lessen that influence on the gaming industry so it isn't just seen as some 16 year old geeks with bad acne and a thread of a social life in their basements talking in 1337. If the Wii can change the general opinions of what video games are, but still keep the long-time Nintendo fan boys at bay, I'm for it. Also, it's not like the Wii will completely change Sony and Microsoft's strategy. Think of how much money the hardcore audience is willing to pay compared to the softcore audience for games. I rest my case.
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#9
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I don't think so. The Gaming Community has survived worse consoles.
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#11
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At the end of the day the Wii is the most sucessful of the 7th gen because of the new style of gaming. Plus if it was the bad why are sony trying to copy the wii by developing the motion sensor idea to their ps3 console.
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#12
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Statement: PEOPLE LIKE THE CONSOLE. However, In previous collapses of video games such as the Atari 2600 collapse. The Atari wasn't a bad console. It was brilliant. Extremilly fun. What caused Video gaming to collapse that time? ET. Bad port of Pacman. Statement: GAMES CAUSE THE COLLAPSE OF THE VIDEO GAMING MARKET So with the Wii video games which are criticized excessivly, over and over and continually gets low reviews from fans and critics alike. THe Wii can yet cause a video game crash if it continues to create bad games. This of course is not a definite but a possibility.
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#13
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Surely the PS3, Xbox360 and the PC are enough to offset the apparent destructive capabilities of the Wii?
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#14
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If it DOES happen (Not saying it will) It CAN be down to the fact of developers stopping to care on one console.
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#16
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Unless fanbases for Coleco/intellivision were equally large back then, in that case, BURN THE WII'S!
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