So... nothing to announce to back that up, then?

@rich.. sin+punishment 2, punchout, fatal frame, tenchu, no more heroes 2, klonoa, trace memory, lost in blue, final fantasy.. (2 of them..) dead rising, the conduit....

they just announced the next year and a half worth of games....

oh right.. disaster day of crisis too.. look around mon ami...

I actually think Nintendo did a pretty good job of getting most of their main core franchises represented on the Wii in the first year to 18 months of its life. Sure, there was a lull right after launch, but once Mario Galaxy and Metroid Prime 3 arrived, things were good.

What's disappointing now if that Nintendo's holiday season lineup is so focussed on the casual gamer side - Wii Music and Animal Crossing seem to be the lead titles. Perhaps the timing could have been better and things spread out a bit more, but then I'm sure that would have caused just as many complaints.

Also, you can't hold Nintendo entirely responsible for glut of minigames and lack of quality third party stuff.

Stop calling MKW a "core game". It's not. And, FYI, you don't get to decided what is and isn't a real game. We do.

what if nintendo fell out the race rather than sega,.. would we've still had to have waited almost 20yrs for golden axe to be revamped..? i for one would sooner have half a dozen different versions of said game than over a dozen versions of Super Smash, mario party and poke'mon. nintendo never had a core to begin with, just a long string of good 'Fads'

What is a Core Game? What is a Casual Game? The definitions are hazy.

Both can be replayed. Both can be played by anyone.

A casual game is one you can pick up, play for five to ten minutes and then put down. A core game is one that you sit down to play, and just cannot bring yourself to stop. The story is so entrancing, the controls so spot on, the action so right. Twilight Princess was a Core game. Metroid Prime 3 was a Core game.

Mario Kart Wii? That's a casual game. Wii Music, Wii Sports, also both casual games.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Casual? Yes. Core? Yes. Because you can pick it up, play for five minutes, then walk away. Or you can sit and play for hours and not want to give it up.

We aren't asking that everything be an epic adventure on the scale of Twilight Princess. We love Brawl because we can play it both ways. We want something that maintains it's appeal while we wait for the killer franchises to come back.

We don't mind waiting for the epic games, but if you don't show us what you're up to, we can't be excited about them.

@ 6 well said.

Nintendo never abandoned core gamers. Core gamers just got pissier, whinier, wimpier, paranoid, etc.

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