Despite presenting stuff like Wii Music as the future of gaming, Nintendo of America is still adamant that it has what the hardcore crowd is looking for. Good old Cammie "That Woman" Dunaway is here to explain how!
"I feel there are titles that should make that group stand up and pay attention next year," explains Cammie, when talking about Call of Duty/BioShock/Halo fans. "If you look at something like [Sega-published FPS] The Conduit that’s really pushing the edge of graphic capabilities on the Wii and doing things that people didn’t think were possible. And I think, one, that makes other developers stand up and take notice. And two, that makes consumers say, 'Huh. Maybe there’s something to this.'
"Or if you look at [Sega-published brawler] Mad World, just the sheer creativity of that graphic style and the impact of the black and the white and the red."
I think it's ironic indeed that the best looking stuff on a Nintendo platform is being published by Sega. Between The Conduit, Mad World and House of the Dead: Overkill, it has been left to a former arch rival to put some really compelling stuff on the system.
As far was what Nintendo was offering that didn't come from a third party, Dunaway had very little to say for herself: "I would assume that a title like Sin & Punishment -- and bringing that to the U.S. for the first time — would start to get at that action-seeking, thrill-seeking need that that audience has. Punch Out, while it may be more of a Nintendo fanboy [kind of game], still, I think, gets at that need for action."
Yeah ... try harder or don't try at all, Nintendo of America.
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8:40 PM on 11.17.2008
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Also, good luck America Mr. Sterling! Hope it all goes well.
They truly, truly have forgotten us.
And with such loyalty I've had over the years, this makes me angry.
The Nintendo's offerings that didn't come from other a third party, while Dunaway didn't say it, are some of the best 1st party games games around. Mario, Zelda, Metroid Prime, Brawl as well as Mario Kart are quality titles through and through.
How much harder do you want them to try?
i play games for more than 20 years now and i see no forgetting the core thing, i played The force unleashed, megaman 9 and chocobo´s dungeon, moved to deBlob, CoD WaW and i am on tales 2 now, have unopened, Wario, lego batman, disaster and monster lab and i am waiting for NFS and tomb raider, that was the immediate past and future, so there is love, we are only wanting them to shove a Zelda a year, when PS360´s offer is mostly 3rd party, why should Wii be different. :D
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I can read, can you? Read what I commented on. Also you think Nintendo isn't going to have great games next year? Oh wait, hardcore crowd can only likes violent games, right?
Since they were announced.
Mushroom men
Rygar
SPRay
Deadly creatures
SF: Tunguska
Tenchu 4
Sonic and the black knight
FFCC echoes of time
Arc rise fantasia
Rune factory frontier
Muramasa
and the list goes on with games for the core, that the core forgets to see because they are dying with envy of PS360´s games.
HAVE YOU SEEN THEIR REVIEW SCORES LATELY?
GOT 'ER!
gamecube = ssbm + some other ok crap
wii = same shit, different name
The only difference was the wii's "shock" value in the beginning that jump started all of this casual madness. I think it'll be good for the industry in a couple of years once the 10 year-olds grow some cajones, but right now its just fucking annoying. At least Sega's starting to realize they need to make other games besides those starring their mascot.
Nintendo still loves us! See? NIntendo does love us!
Nintendo of America was bashed. Not the Wii.
Please take the time to read and fully comprehend something before you tackle a subject. Learn to crawl before you try walking, son.
Stop leaving douchy comments on Jim's website!
Well as long as you're making fun of NoA that's cool. Nintendo as a whole though has probably put out more quality games in about a year exept for those who have taken over quite a number of companies ie EA.
On the other hand...they've yet to reveal they're poker hand for the coming years and I can understand why people have started to call their bluff.
MadWorld looks amazing btw. Must get!!
Well as long as you're making fun of NoA that's cool. Nintendo as a whole though has probably put out more quality games in about a year exept for those who have taken over quite a number of companies ie EA.
On the other hand...they've yet to reveal they're poker hand for the coming years and I can understand why people have started to call their bluff.
MadWorld looks amazing btw. Must get!!
Sin and Punishment 2, only hardcore treasure nerds know about this.
@Jimbo
Well if they do have stuff for next year, why don't they show it? Its november 17th, only a few days till the holidays and Nintendo has show us jack shit.
Exactly. There is a distinct reason why I am singling out Nintendo of America here. Any real Nintendo fan should agree with me that NoA are shitheads.
I'm a rabid Nintendo fanboy. I admit that right now. But you know what the next 3 games are that I want to look into? Fatal Frame IV, Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, and Disaster: Day of Crisis. NONE OF THEM ARE COMING TO THE U.S. Nintendo of American truly sucks now, and that's what Jim was trying to say.
As for Nintendo of America what do you expect Cammie to say? She's only going to talk about what's been announced already which was Sin & Punishment 2, and Punch Out!! Its not like she's just going to say oh yeah by the way you guys are going to love the new Zelda, StarFox, and Kid Icarus games coming out next year. I'm sure Nintendo will reveal their 2009 games more in time, but its not like they're going to just blurt them all out in a MTV Multiplayer Blog interview!
It's like the abusive boyfriend/husband who acts like a neglectful dick to his woman, but keeps convincing her to stay just a little bit longer by buying her flowers and saying, "Hey baby, I'll change. I promise." And then he never does.
Also, I love that Sega is doing the heavy-lifting for the hardcore. I always preferred them to Nintendo.
Also, Deadly Creatures looks sweet.
Do what I did, say fuck you NoA. Install the Homebrew channel, then proceed to install the homebrew app that makes your wii region free, then import those 3 games.
Because Reggie thinks it's cheesy, that's why. It's already in English, for God's sake.
@chronoswing
That's exactly what I'm doing, actually. Got Gecko OS ready and everything.
You do know that Nintendo has absolutely nothing to do with Tatsunoko VS Capcom right? Its a Capcom property, and as such Nintendo couldn't have that game come on the Wii in North America even if they wanted it to. Its not they're decision to make!
While I'm closely watching The Conduit and Madworld, I realized that I'm not going to buy nearly enough Nintendo stuff to net me some of the upper echelon coolness that Club Nintendo will have.
I'll soon be the Tantalus to Nintendo's so-called 'reward program' if they ever offer up the Super Mario Galaxy Soundtrack...
Even this interview is full of that disgust. She never ever uses the term core gamers or anything of that kind, even though Nintendo were the bastards whos caused that stupid division into core and casual amongst gamers in the first place.
No she won't use it! Instead she referst to them/us as "that audience". Did someone ever tell her that it is impolite and borderline offensive to refer to someone as "that guy"? Same rule aplies with a whole group of people.
But then again we refer to her as "that woman"...
Whatever the argument still stands because she is in PR and that means her job is to be as nice as possible to every potential customer.
But whith this current attitude of NoA I feel more like a horrible monster that is fed a bone in order to keep it from feasting on the sweet an meaty flesh of Mr. Reggie "The Hamburgler" Fils-Aime.
When these guys released the Wii I was like "You know what? Maybe they aren't dead". We saw Twilight Princess, Metroid Prime 3, Super Smash Brothers Brawl and Mario Kart Wii but that was it.... all of it. They were the only games worth buying.
What a crock of shit Nintendo, how about you actually start making quality games and make good descisions instead of releasing your DSi and your Wii2 in the future. You guys seriously need to look at yourselves, you guys aren't popular for a reason.
Yeah it's popular with the new 'casual' market but abandons all us old Nintendo fans in the process.
Somewhere down here is lamertag, missing the point.
Indeed. Now let us party like the burkes we are. 1972 style.
You spouted off a list of some of the games that Nintendo put out over the past two years on the Wii. Which is more frequent big Nintendo games than they have ever put out that fast before so what's the difference between now, and the GC days? The difference is Nintendo has found a new audience to help replace the loss of core gamers, and most core gamers are just whining over it. I just don't get why! Everyone was fine last-gen when Nintendo was the redheaded stepchild of the video game world stuck in 3rd place.
No one complained this much about Nintendo only putting a game out every 3 to 6 months back then, and contrary to what everyone believes Nintendo is still putting out a title a month from August through November. Which that's not even including the 3 WiiWare ArtStyle games they put out as well so really Nintendo is putting out more than a game a month. Sure its a mixture between core, and casual titles, but why should they pick one over the other. Core gamers are just pissed off because they don't have Nintendo all to themselves anymore. Its like a jealous sibling when a new baby comes into the house!
The Wii wasn't bashed. I already explained this to you. Are you just trying to be stupid?