Posts Tagged ‘Hardcore Gaming’
Shia LaBeuof isn’t into Wii, says it’s for amateurs
Now I’m not one to follow celebrities but ever since Even Stevens, Shia LaBeuof has been hailed as one of my favorite actors. You may know it from Transformers along with Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Anyways, during a recent interview with Big Download when questioned about the Wii the actor responded:
“I don’t mess with the Wii, to be honest with you. It’s kind of an amateur console. I’m not into the Wii thing.” And went out to say, “a simple way you can find out if it’ts a game you want to play with. Ask them if they have a Wii. If they say yes, get the f*** out of there.”
Most gamers will probably agree that the Wii isn’t the most hardcore of consoles but with it’s $250 price tag and games like Zelda, Super Smash, and Mario it doesn’t leave hardcore gamers in the dust.
Nintendo Still Hopes To Lure In Hardcore Crowd
The current generation of console gaming seems to be split between two camps. Sony and Microsoft vie for the more adult audience, the so called ‘hardcore’ gamers while Nintendo captures the attentions of the casual crowd or the social hangout gaming of the hardcore crowd. Though many of the more popular Wii games are pretty simple, Nintendo is confident that with some of their upcoming releases they’ll be able to bring more hardcore players into their camp.
“We think we [can] win over the Halo audience with something like The Conduit, a multi-player, online, shooting experience, or Dead Space Extraction. And you know what? Once those people buy into Wii, they’ll go buy Mario Kart or Wii Fit Plus,” said Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America. Unfortunately so far the record for third party hardcore games hasn’t been good, with even the critically vaunted No More Heroes doing pretty poorly in sales.
WIth the recent announcement of a new Metroid game and more Mario and Zelda games coming along there is some hope for a Wii hardcore renaissance in the future, but it’s not guaranteed.