[Lynk Former]

@ Eva: Pretty much, there's room for all kinds of games, I just wish people could realise that much. And yes, this is a time where videogames are seeing another jump in its evolutionary cycle. It is a very important time.

Also, I mentioned Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy (at least the modern ones) to point out that they both have very different ways of telling their stories and that it's that kind of diversity we need as well as the diversity of games which have no story on only general premises and plots so you can get right down to the gameplay...

As for Nintendo, they are doing a lot of things which are still very much in line with traditional views of gaming. Twilight Princess is an example of this, but the best example has to be Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn which is even more traditional than what some people are probably used to in this day and age. Then we also have Nintendo publishing Fatal Frame 4 and buying out Monolith Soft and having them develop Disaster: Day of Crisis. Mario Kart Wii is also a very traditionalist game, but with some extra functionality to try to tap into a broader audience.

I've said it before and I wish people could see this. Nintendo isn't abandoning one market to go after another, they're trying to expand their audience and userbase by publishing a wider variety of games.

When it comes right down to it... Nintendo, in terms of the games they're releasing for Wii, is doing pretty well... the real problem is with third parties who either don't have faith in the system or exploit it by creating really cheap games... which isn't entirely a bad thing either considering they did the same thing with the PS2... but my point is, the thing that's dragging Wii down isn't Nintendo, but the lack of interest third party developers have in committing resources to create quality titles for Wii.

...yeah, that does sound unfair, I admit that, considering the fact that Wii has gotten games like No More Heroes and Zack & Wiki which are both brilliant titles... but it really is the third party developers who make or break a system, and while Nintendo does well with its own games... that's their biggest problem... third party developers don't want to have to compete with Nintendo because they feel that they're going to lose every time...