The real problem is that the place in the gaming community that Nintendo is trying to establish with the Wii is the non-core element of either really young or older audiences. Sure, a few games in the Touch Generations series and maybe one or two games on the Wii like that would be fine, but it seems as though Nintendo has gone a bit too far in my opinion. WiiFit was the biggest disappointment I've ever had with Nintendo in my history of being a loyal fan. It's just too non-gaming for the gaming community to take. I think Nintendo should make only a few games like these and concentrate on their loyal fanbase of franchise-lovers. Mario, Zelda, etc. are not dead, far from it actually. They just have to keep making quality games, not this boring DDR ripoff crap.
I know it was done already. A few decades ago, Mars Company made a subliminal message to buy M&M's in a movie theater. It worked, and that caused the government to pass a law banning subliminal ads.
I've been reading "NEXT" lately and I must say it is very insightful. Crichton has the writing style and the matter-of-factness that makes all his books totally believable. What he said on genes is different from global warming because global warming has more people ridiculing the people who actually believe it to be true. Genes are an uncertain future that could prove disastrous and Crichton gets this notion across as well as he did his thoughts in his earlier books.
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The real problem is that the place in the gaming community that Nintendo is trying to establish with the Wii is the non-core element of either really young or older audiences. Sure, a few games in the Touch Generations series and maybe one or two games on the Wii like that would be fine, but it seems as though Nintendo has gone a bit too far in my opinion. WiiFit was the biggest disappointment I've ever had with Nintendo in my history of being a loyal fan. It's just too non-gaming for the gaming community to take. I think Nintendo should make only a few games like these and concentrate on their loyal fanbase of franchise-lovers. Mario, Zelda, etc. are not dead, far from it actually. They just have to keep making quality games, not this boring DDR ripoff crap.
I know it was done already. A few decades ago, Mars Company made a subliminal message to buy M&M's in a movie theater. It worked, and that caused the government to pass a law banning subliminal ads.
I've been reading "NEXT" lately and I must say it is very insightful. Crichton has the writing style and the matter-of-factness that makes all his books totally believable. What he said on genes is different from global warming because global warming has more people ridiculing the people who actually believe it to be true. Genes are an uncertain future that could prove disastrous and Crichton gets this notion across as well as he did his thoughts in his earlier books.