Iwata: Wii in “unhealthy condition, no price cut"

Forgive me for not wanting games to go so commercial they lose all meaning. I don't care if old people are playing games if what they're playing isn't a videogame.

This. Once you start calling games 'interactive entertainment' instead of games, you can piss off for all I care.

I don't care about pushing boundries into realms of gooseberry fool, I don't care about idiots playing games and I certainly don't care about games becoming more mainstream, and I refuse to fellate Nintendo for something which doesn't affect me.

It's not 'selfish.' Let's not bring such terms into something as unimportant as gaming.

Harry Bizzle wrote:

Forgive me for not wanting games to go so commercial they lose all meaning. I don't care if old people are playing games if what they're playing isn't a videogame.

This. Once you start calling games 'interactive entertainment' instead of games, you can piss off for all I care.

I don't care about pushing boundries into realms of gooseberry fool, I don't care about idiots playing games and I certainly don't care about games becoming more mainstream, and I refuse to fellate Nintendo for something which doesn't affect me.

It's not 'selfish.' Let's not bring such terms into something as unimportant as gaming.

Though I grant the term recieved a bad rap during the early CD-era, games are a kind of interactive entertainment. To devalue the concept thus is to dismiss "games without goals" like The Sims, Sim City and Animal Crossing.

Just because something is interactive entertainment doesn't mean it's not fun to play with. Part of the job of Nintendo's approach is that it's often indicative of the kind of "out of box" thinking that results in the creation of types of games we didn't even know we wanted to play.

TheTurnipKing wrote:Though I grant the term recieved a bad rap during the early CD-era, games are a kind of interactive entertainment. To devalue the concept thus is to dismiss "games without goals" like The Sims, Sim City and Animal Crossing.

Just because something is interactive entertainment doesn't mean it's not fun to play with. Part of the job of Nintendo's approach is that it's often indicative of the kind of "out of box" thinking that results in the creation of types of games we didn't even know we wanted to play.

Leave it, Turnip. They've already decided they don't want to play these types of games. If they want to remain stuck in the old way of doing things, let them. It's those who will fall by the wayside whilst the industry moves on.

Without the wii/ DS, I seriously doubt my wife would ever have indulged in the medium, or allowed me to buy either the wii or 360 for the kids . Nintendo have my eternal gratitude.

As for the lack of pricecut, I thought he justified his stance quite well with the qualifier that it wouldn't have an effect "in the current economic climate..." unless they were going to cut the price in half, which would be ridiculous.

mic wrote:Without the wii/ DS, I seriously doubt my wife would ever have indulged in the medium, or allowed me to buy either the wii or 360 for the kids . Nintendo have my eternal gratitude.

As for the lack of pricecut, I thought he justified his stance quite well with the qualifier that it wouldn't have an effect "in the current economic climate..." unless they were going to cut the price in half, which would be ridiculous.

Oddly the game that got my wife into it was Halo (when we only had an Xbox). However, it's the DS and now (that she's into games) the PSP that have really seen her get really into gaming.