chespace said:
And yet, in my example of a new and diverse spectrum of gamers that MS and Sony will now set their eyes on, my archetype of the Wii owner who only plays that one game and none other (be it Wii Sports, Wii Play, whatever) still stands. Nintendo has broadened the definition of gamers. There is now more money to be made. That was my fucking point and has been since the beginning.
Are you such a knee-jerk reactive forumite that you can't even step back for a second without shooting off console war volleys with the reply button? If you're going to respond to my posts, at least try and comprehend what I'm trying to say.
But whatever. Like most lazy gaffers, it's easier for you to quote my tag, so go for it. :lol
I got to say this.. Che is absolutely right. Let me tell you guys TWO PRIME EXAMPLES of what he's getting at and i have even said the same damn thing in here many times and i was just litterly gang rapped by a handful of snobby ass gamers in here..put down and laughed at like i was a fucking idiot and to this day..i stand firm with that i said in gaf some months ago that the wii is a baby boomer kind of game machine for most wii buyers....
EXAMPLE #1
Im 34 years old gamer, me and my click of "adult friends" are big time gamers..one of my friend's mom bought a wii about a year after it came out. Im ALWAYS visiting his mother's house with my bro for dinner all the time..she likes to cook for her son and her son's friends..which is my best friend and my best friend invites me over for some good old fashion cooking all the time after playing some Bball or Racquetball at the Y or what ever...his mom is ALWAYS playing the bowling game on wii.. ALWAYS..non stop since she first got the wii, she just plays the SHIT out of wii sports... forward to present day, she has like 3 games for wii and one of them was a pack-in game that she plays ALL THE TIME as i said. Now i was just over there some weeks ago...guess what i noticed sitting next to her wii? A freaking xbox 360 ... .yup thats right and guess how many games she has for it? ..about 6 xbox 360 games... ...she's in her early 60's and even though yes she still plays the living day lights out of the wii, she told us that she really loves alot of the games on the 360 that she usually rents first then if she likes it enough..she goes and buys it...simply put, the wii led a 60 year old lady onto buying an xbox 360, someone that was never a gamer in her life too! She's a prime example of what you would call " a baby boomer "....
EXAMPLE #2
Now lets move on to my own mother that i bought a wii for 6 months ago...My mom...while was somewhat of a gamer back when i was a youngster..i remember her and my dad playing Atari 2600 all nite long with my dad's half brother..which is my uncle.. i remember them staying up late nite playing while i was in bed as i was only around maybe 8 years old? ...so that was pretty much the only time my mom was any kind of a gamer..since then gaming has been dormant in her life. My mom is a house wife still.. while my dad works his tail off ..since my mom is always home and stuff and i tend to notice all she has is a few friends, myself and her internet surfing because she's home alone alot..i decided to buy her a Wii console 6 months ago... my mom is ALWAYS playing the wii...just like my best friend's mother with her always playing the bowling game on wii.. my mom does the same, she really dig's that bowling game but she also plays a few other wii titles she went out on her own to buy... low and behold, i go over to my parents house a month ago, right when the 360 dropped down to 200 bucks *around that time* and there was her and my dad in the living room playing their brand spanking new xbox 360 they had just bought while shopping... to this day, they are once again gaming on the weekends as husband and wife in their late 50's with around 5 xbox 360 games sitting next to their xbox 360 and a few wii games sitting next to my mother's wii... both my mother and father are indeed from the "baby boomer" era...
The moral of the story is this... these two prime examples are PROOF of whats happening with this wii phenomenon thats going on right now around the world, yes it is a FAD but its a very very GOOD FAD because just like Che suggested, it brings the non-gamer into the gaming hobby and im seeing more non-gamers become gamers overnight..all thanks to the wii...
It amazes me how many Nintendo fans are so snobbish and uptight about Wii not being a true contender to a 360 or ps3..it simply is not, a gamer would never ever be able to survive on a wii..i own a wii and i sure the hell couldn't be satisfied with "just" a wii..hell the only time i play the wii is when Nintendo releases their own 1st party titles..other then that..the machine sits collecting MAJOR DUST....if that bothers you, good, you deserved to be bothered by that because honestly you shouldn't...but in the long run, everyone benefits regardless, again, thx to nintendo's wii.
......i remember like it was yesterday when i brought up the notion that the Nintendo Wii was gaming machine ideal for the baby boomer and that the non-gamer were the people buying the majority of wii's... i see dentist offices have them, i see doctor offices have them..i see old folks have them, i see youngsters have them..i see hardcore gamers have them but there's no denying the fact that the majority of people BUYING THE WII are the people that were never even a gamer from the get go.....
..i was shot down left and right for saying such a thing in here some months ago, when indeed i knew inside without a doubt that i was DEAD RIGHT about it....its funny how you can be in a forum such as Gaf with such so called "knowledgeable snobby ass gamers" that act or pretend to know everything and if you dare suggest an idea or something in why a game machine may be this or that... these people will attack you with everything their beady little black dotted eye's can throw out at you, especially the hardcore nintendo fans... which is quite hilarious seeing people get so riled up over this gaming hobby that was always ment to be fun and not so serious...
