Nintendo And One Person's Thoughts

I love playing video games but will admit, I don't play them often. I have other hobbies that I'm much better at and prefer to spend my time doing those.

But I bought a Wii because I loved Nintendo growing up, I thought the Gamecube was great, the Virtual Console seemed like a great idea, and it seemed like Nintendo was focusing more on fun games than games that "pushed the envelope."

I'm disillusioned though.

I haven't bought many games for the Wii because they all look so boring. I read comments on the Internet saying that the people who grew up with Nintendo (me) have matured and we need more mature games.

I agree to a point. I think that while I would sometimes like to destroy zombies with all the gore possible, I also want a system that has games that Annie could one day play.

I DO NOT THINK it should be one or the other.

And now, after the Wii has been out for years I am getting more and more fed up with the CRAP that they want you to buy to play "games." It doesn't even seem like the games are all that fun anymore. And maybe this is because I'm older and now a "mature" gamer but I have no problem playing classic games. They were fun.

Here's what I think the problems are:

The controller. Yes, bowling is fun. However, sometimes, heck MOST times when I come home I'm tired and just want to lie back, controller in hand and play a game without having to exercise more and make myself even more worn out.

Third party games. It would solve a lot of problems if third party developers would produce games for the Wii, but they don't and I think it's because of the controller. I HONESTLY think that Nintendo pushes the controller pretty heavily instead of saying "yeah go ahead with a Gamecube controller or SNES type controller" and as a result, the developers just don't want to do that.

I can understand why. If I had a great game that would work on the DS but Nintendo insisted on utilizing the touch screen even though I had no intention of using it, I just might scrap the idea (or put some stupid touchscreen capability that just pisses you off like the upgrade selection in Bomberman).

Yes, Shiguro (apologies if I misspelled your name), you got your wife to play video games and enjoy them. What a great achievement. I know how it feels to convince your wife that something you love dearly is awesome. But I think Nintendo went a little far in dumbing it down.

Now, I'm not saying you need hardcore games exclusively, but you need SOME, at least more than you have now. You need to drop the idea that motion is necessary too so that third parties may be more interested.

I read an interesting article here: http://screwattack.com/node/12980 and must say that I don't think it's a matter of everyone saying that Nintendo abandoned us or we abandoned them, but Nintendo instead focused EXCLUSIVELY on "family" games instead of offering more for the ones that want, well, more. I know my daughter would probably love Wii games, but she's one. I'm 25 and still enjoy games like any Mario Brothers game, but I also like Gears of War.