Topic: Gamers have short memories!

I'm totally going to claim that playing Wii Music and Wii Fit for two hours a day makes me a hardcore gamer then.

That should be fun.

Officailly recognised Hardcore Wii gamers are those who don't own WiiSports.

Well to be honest its not the game you play that makes you "hardcore" it is actually the time and effort you put into mastering the game. If you put time and effort into a game that requires genuine skill to play u can call yourself a "hardcore" gamer, but I wouldn't its a pretty silly title lol

Lolz so what did they do with the copies that came with their Wii's burn them in protest? Actually I wouldn't be surprised with all the crazy fanboys out there hehe

There's a communal landfill that the Hardcore massive lease out and fill with WiiSports discs... and a few copies of WiiPlay.

I can almost see it now, it's the burning of the bras for the gaming generation hehe

Perhaps, but given the amount of moaning about how 3rd parties cannot figure out what sells in the Wii Marketplace, I don't think they have a clue.

I don't think Nintendo is a big evil game company. In fact, I would probably agree more with you, Dru, than those disappointed in Nintendo's new direction. I just don't agree with the reasoning here. We have only a couple games as examples, while some certainly would expect more, and we have a solution to a problem that is Nintendo's fault to begin with. I mean, if I punched someone in the face and then offered him an icepack, I would not be praised by anyone for how attentive I was to his complaints. If the problem shouldn't have been there to begin with, that's not really listening to the fans. That's listening to the fans years after they complained about it, which is a key difference and not really worth a pat on the back.

Lmao the example you used there made me chuckle twas awesome. For what its worth I can totally see where you're coming from and your lines of reasoning are great, its just that I tend to see the glass half full when it comes to gaming. also the three examples I used were just to get the ball rolling so to speak I'd hoped others would follow suit maybe listing other things such as:

• Excite Truck: World Rally
• The Hanabi festivals (ok we didn't get Earthbound but we got Super Mario rpg along with other great games)
• Metroid: Other M (I its not out yet and could potentially be poor but this is definitely a game targeted at the "core" unless Ninty add some crazy Samus visor peripheral lol)
• Metroid Prime Trilogy (could have very easily been released as NPC like japan and probably still would have sold)

I understand that Nintendo could have done a lot more to please the "core" but this forum was designed to be an uplifting contrast to the over abundance of negative fan-boy influenced articles out there, something to focus on the good Nintendo has done. As a side note what good things have you noticed Nintendo do that we can add to the list?

Yea, those are all good examples. I think Nintendo has given us a decent amount of "gamers' games" so far, but this year is sure to raise the bar, so while I wouldn't blame anyone's memory for thinking Nintendo has "abandoned" anyone, I would blame them for being poorly informed of upcoming releases.

hardcore and core are different!?
wow ive been confused for a long time

I'm still regretful of my initial reaction.

Stop regretting everything! Of course if you really regret it, you can always edit or delete your posts!

If you REALLY don't want your copy of Wii Sports, I recommend selling it. There's a surprisingly large market for used copies of a game that comes bundled with EVERY WII SOLD, resulting from a combination of broken and lost discs. Nintendo could make some easy money selling replacements on Nintendo.com, but they don't, leaving GameStop open to charge $15 a pop (it keeps fluctuating, actually; highest I've seen was $20).

Of course, I disagree with the assertion that you have to dump Wii Sports to be a "real" hardcore Wii gamer. I play Wii Sports (and Resort), Wii Music, Wii Fit, NSMBW, SMG, LoZ:TP, Punch-Out!!, etc...and I refuse to accept the label of anything OTHER than core (or "hardcore," depending on the definition) gamer due to the amout of time and passion I put into that pasttime.