26th August 2009, 2:08 AM
True but you have to see the growth as well, you're comparing apples to bath tubs. The NES days of the industry was nothing compared to now. Trends were easy to follow and about everyone was on even playing fields. Huge gaming mags didn't start until the 90's, there was no internet and previews and reviews were one in the same in the mags that did exist, like Nintendo Power that started in 88. The Playstation brand brought a long with it the advent of reaching more consumers, getting more players to the table, it was Majora's moon consuming the world and bringing the industry up by turning it against itself.
The NES had 794 games for it worldwide and mind you that's a large catalog. As of September 30, 2007, a total of 7,918 were released on the PSX. The PS2 has about 1700 I believe which is still climbing. What i'm saying is that on the NES while you had a large number of games to choose from things never got out of hand. When Playstation hit it sought to devour the world and take the industry down with it by flooding everything so much, it was like there was no point. Confusing or alienating the consumer, or confusing and alienating the developer. Then either the consumers stop buying or the developers stop developing while they all fight for a place on the totem pole, which is exactly why everyone jumped ship when PS3 hit, now it sails like a ghost ship.
This is what I see happening with Wii, but as salt to the wound it's been labeled as minigames and fitness. It would be a different story if we could complain about all the fighting games, RPG's, flight sims and arcade shooters, FPS and puzzle games that were hitting the PSX like a machine gun. ;P
So I see your argument and why you find it ironic but honestly it's too different eras and that makes it seriously difficult to match up. It's too much of a gap in what the industry was to what it became.
On a smaller scale though, the Wii is hurting its own fans and developers, it's following fads and while that's all fine and dandy, you better have a real game console underneath all that krap. But I have a feeling this is all controlled chaos, I think Nintendo's blue ocean is about generating a fad to boost bank accounts, but there's no long term sanctuary there, that's also why I said earlier that Nintendo needs a miracle to get out of the bad situation they're in, above and beyond the software dilemma.
The NES had 794 games for it worldwide and mind you that's a large catalog. As of September 30, 2007, a total of 7,918 were released on the PSX. The PS2 has about 1700 I believe which is still climbing. What i'm saying is that on the NES while you had a large number of games to choose from things never got out of hand. When Playstation hit it sought to devour the world and take the industry down with it by flooding everything so much, it was like there was no point. Confusing or alienating the consumer, or confusing and alienating the developer. Then either the consumers stop buying or the developers stop developing while they all fight for a place on the totem pole, which is exactly why everyone jumped ship when PS3 hit, now it sails like a ghost ship.
This is what I see happening with Wii, but as salt to the wound it's been labeled as minigames and fitness. It would be a different story if we could complain about all the fighting games, RPG's, flight sims and arcade shooters, FPS and puzzle games that were hitting the PSX like a machine gun. ;P
So I see your argument and why you find it ironic but honestly it's too different eras and that makes it seriously difficult to match up. It's too much of a gap in what the industry was to what it became.
On a smaller scale though, the Wii is hurting its own fans and developers, it's following fads and while that's all fine and dandy, you better have a real game console underneath all that krap. But I have a feeling this is all controlled chaos, I think Nintendo's blue ocean is about generating a fad to boost bank accounts, but there's no long term sanctuary there, that's also why I said earlier that Nintendo needs a miracle to get out of the bad situation they're in, above and beyond the software dilemma.