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Nintendo Wii - A Spirited Defence
Written by: Steve Martin Posted: 13th May 2009
The Nintendo Wii has recently celebrated its second birthday, and has in many “hardcore” gamers eyes become a victim of its own success. Its “casual games” range has allowed it to become the games console of choice for families, as well as younger and much older gamers, my girlfriend has actually managed to get her grandparents to play Wii Sports!
This was the approach that Nintendo were taking when they released the Wii! It was supposed to incorporate the whole family, regardless of age or video gaming skill. A point in case is my girlfriend, who was never really into videogames, she felt they were too complicated and boring, but once I got my Wii, I couldn’t get her off it! She now has both a Wii and DS at home! The fact that Nintendo has managed to branch out to a brand new audience should be congratulated, as this will bring in more money to help develop more games, and they have always been at the fore-front of developing new ways to play games such as the touch screen on the DS and the motion controls for the Wii. I love the fact that Nintendo will always try to break away from the trend of bigger graphics equals better games?
Some of the casual games are actually pretty good and have sold millions of copies and rightly so, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games is probably the pick of the bunch, SEGA took an age old template and revived it using the motion controls to create possibly the most fun-filled multi-player game this decade!
Unfortunately due to the success of these games, the market is now flooded with sub-standard mini-game compilations using the motion sensing technology in the Wii, which has aggravated those “hardcore” gamers mentioned above. But to those “hardcore” gamers, with their PS3’s, Xbox 360’s and PC’s, I would say that the Wii’s mini-game games are comparable to the constant stream of below average First Person Shooters, or third person hack/slash/shoot action games, or FIFA/NFL/NHL/NBA insert-next-number-here that litter the pre-owned sections of game stores.
I would classify myself as a “hardcore gamer”, I enjoy playing games for hours and hours on end and you can truly dive into for days worth of gameplay with titles such as the FF series, Oblivion and Fallout 3. I have a PS3 and have many fantastic titles that I have played to death. But I also have my Wii, which I love just as much, I feel it gets a tough deal from the owners of the rival consoles, because it is good at what it was designed for. I fully understand the point that there are too many mini-game games available and it aggravates and frustrates me even more than the “hardcore” gamers because there are some amazing gems amongst the debris of lack-lustre titles.
The problem is that people just see all the naff ones on sale in the stores, and don’t see the unique ones such as Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart Wii, Metroid Prime 3, Legend of Zelda and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. There are also plenty of third-party games like No More Heroes, Trauma Centre, Boom Blox, De Blob and the remake of the PS2 classic Okami, for those people seeking something that will take double-figures of playing to complete. These games use the motion sensing technology to its fullest and make the Wii one of the most fun and versatile games consoles ever created.
The Wii has much more to offer than people think, it’s just a shame that developers are skewing the game selection on sale towards the casual games/mini-game-compilations, meaning that decent, proper games are few and far between, it’s frustrating but in my opinion worth putting up with.
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