IGN Playstation Boss Slags down Wii

[wraggster]

Heres what Juan Castro of IGN said about Wii:


“How is the Wii the only right choice for gamers? Contrary to what you believe, Wii games for the most part ignore “hardcore” gamers. Just look at its lineup. It’s filled with games like Elebits, Super Monkey Ball, Duck Hunt and Excite Truck. It has a handful of promising games, take Super Mario Galaxy and Wario Ware, but the rest hardly qualify as harcore, if that’s the point you want to make. Hell, even its best games, like Mario, Zelda and Metroid, wouldn’t really qualify as hardcore.”

“The Wii may outsell it (PS3) at launch, but no one cares about those numbers…With the Wii, on the other hand, developers hesitate calling it a next-gen system now, which isn’t so hot…and this is something both hardcore and casual gamers will definitely notice.”

Sour grapes eh ?

[NoQuarter]

What exactly qualifies a game as "hardcore"
I mean mario has been around for ages and is part of most serious gamers libraries, not to mention zelda.

Maybe he meant first person shooters,lol

[Jenksie]

Also how can you judge a software library that hasn't come out yet? Has he played all of the Wii games in development? I agree sour grapes

[Uruz 6]

Oh well you know how things go these days..
Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo.. they're just bashing at each other..
Who cares what they say anyway?

[CampaKaze]

Not Hardcore??? Oh Cmon, Nintendo mite not have any 18+ games, but.. whose controller most looks like a vibrator!?!? Huh? Yah! there ya go, you.. you.. you sour grape! :D

Well its prolly a good thing that they didnt have any 18+ games, cus think about it, it mite get waaaay to interactive >.> hehe sry about dirty jokes :p

[lexluthor]

A game like Duck Hunt is going to attract a huge crowd of hardcore fans who have been playing since the NES... what a jackass.

That fact that the IGN Playsation boss even has to make a comment like this proves Nintendo is on the up.

I hope Matt responds.. then everyone catch watch IGN wars unfold (WHich would be fun)

[lexluthor]

Someone on the NGamer forum made a good point. "Considering that the PS3 is officially a multimedia device, and not a games console, how does a comment like that make sense?"

[whatsorrow]

haha here are some of the games coming out for wii....if these dont appeal to hardcore gamers i dont know what will. and remember this is a list of 3rd party developers theres something here for everyone at half the price of the ps3 not counting all of nintendo's 1st party games. =D cant wait till i can actually play it.

Splinter Cell Double Agent
Red Steel
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Mortal Kombat: Armageddon
Far Cry
Call of Duty 3
Resident Evil Wii
Prince of Persia [untitled]
Sadness
Soulcalibur IV [Untitled]
Medal of Honor: Airborne
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers
Spider-Man 3 Wii

[philr359]

Fidel Castro, or whatever his name is, has no clue what he's talking about. sour grapes indeed!

[Anger]

my definition of hardcore is those people with more time to spend in front of a tv screen and play games than working/socialising/sleeping/eating/drinking...you get the point.

i was close to being one of them (in the cs scene) and first hand witnessed those loosers. by god im glad i didnt become that.

i think by spurning the hardcore gamer they have a damn good chance of getting the regular people to play it, and because these people are regular there also much nicer people.

[gotmilk0112]

so what hes saying is:

old-school game series are not "hardcore" but a system that plays MP3s and movies and costs an arm and a leg is? -_-; sour-est grapes in the world.

[colecole]

what a moron. by "hardcore games" does he mean loads of blood spilling all over the screen? apparently, that's all anyone cares about nowadays according to fidel here. well if that's what he means, how about COD 3, FArCry, Resident Evil, MOH, Red Steel??? you can always spot a wii hater because they have baseless claims. douchebag...

[Jenksie]

It's quite bad when a supposedly proffessional journalist becomes a fanboi

[cyrien]

Don't be so hard on the guy. After all because of the Wii he may not have a job in a few more years... I imagine the IGN Dreamcast boss wouldn't have much liked Sony either. ;)

[Amethyst]

Funny, I diddn't know classic gaming didn't qualify as hardcore. I guess today's hardcore gamers will be mainstream for the HardgameVR Ultra-Graphix 3000G crowd of tomorrow.

[ACID]

A game like Duck Hunt is going to attract a huge crowd of hardcore fans who have been playing since the NES... what a jackass.

That fact that the IGN Playsation boss even has to make a comment like this proves Nintendo is on the up.

I hope Matt responds.. then everyone catch watch IGN wars unfold (WHich would be fun)
I didnt know this was even a title for the WII. And i agree with you im a big MMRPG and SHOOTER game fan and if i wasent buying the WII witch i am. This title definately will make me buy it.

[GagaMan]

The Duck Hunt demo we saw at E3 is now officialy part of another compliation a lot like WiiSports.