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Is There a Future For Mature Games On Wii?
digitalfever writes "There are more than 50 million Wii systems worldwide. Logically, the audience for a wide range of games and interactive experiences should be rather big, but based on the evidence so far, either that's not true — or publishers have been hedging the wrong bets. No one has conclusively proved the case for (or against) the viability of mature games on Wii, but 2009 was a litmus test on a number of fronts, including the DS. The results aren't encouraging. "
The Wii has plenty of games for "mature audiences", like your grandmother.
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I've always found it a bit funny that "mature" seems to be associated with violence, gore and sex.
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I guess "mature games" are a way for "mature" people to safely release their immature urges
BTW it's not only adults who think about sex. Some (many?) children go about humping stuff. It's the adults who are supposed to know what's inappropriate behaviour (and brainwash the children accordingly
Yeah, there's a lot. And, keep in mind that some 'childish looking' games are absolutely very appropriate for adults. "A Little Kings Story" looks like a cross between Pokemon and a Fairy Tale, but has very sophisticated gameplay and humor.
Some of the games for the Wii you could consider 'mature' in the gritty/violent sense are: No More Heroes. The Conduit. Madworld. Resident Evil 4. House of the Dead: Maximum Overkill. Dead Space: Extraction. Left for Dead. Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers (I LIKE that one!).
Games that are good, but not packed with sex/violence, are: Fire Emblem. Phantom Brave. A Little Kings Story. Murumasa. A Boy and his Blob. Super Mario Galaxies. Metroid Prime 3. Tales of Symphonia: A New World. Okami.
Upcoming games that look to be good: Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. Final Fantasy:Crystal Chronicles:The Crystal Bearers (two colons in that one). Metroid: Other M. No More Heroes 2. Red Steel 2. Monster Hunter 3. Dragon Quest X.
I kind of went overboard responding to you, because experience tells me that there will be all sorts of posts saying that the Wii has no games, and probably complaining about the inch of dust that's accumulated. If you look, there are plenty of decent games.
Resident Evil 4 was one of the best selling Wii games. Just because The Conduit and Mad World didn't sell well, does not mean that there's not a market for M rated games. Fact of the matter is that they just weren't very good games, regardless of what the media said.
http://kotaku.com/5395956/the-10-most-avidly+played-wii-games-in-america-as-of-nov-1
Honestly, look at that chart. I'm seeing a shitload of hardcore games there (no, I don't judge whether a game is for the hardcore or not by the rating, any more than I judge movies that way). What I'm not seeing a lot of is deca sports and catz, regardless of what the media tells you. The Wii market is starving for hardcore games, and the 3rd parties just simply have not delivered. Nintendo sat this one out and made casual games, because the 3rd parties have been bitching bitterly for years that they can't compete with Nintendo. And what do they do? They follow in Nintendo's footsteps again. Pathetic.
Nintendo just needs to come back and rule the roost again. Metroid: Other M is a good start. New Super Mario Bros Wii, Mario Galaxy 2, and the rumoured new Zelda should do the trick. Hardcore gamers still own their Wiis. They just aren't buying anything because there's fuck all to play.
The closer I get to 40, the more the "mature" games bore the shit out of me.
Sometimes my arms bend back.