Are casual Gamers playing Wii beyond Wii Sports?

[MaximumSpider]

I'm asking this question because I always see articles about parents and old people playing and loving Wii sports. Many of which are sold on the fun factor of Wii Sports and are sold on buying a Wii. But how many of these people after wii sports try other games. I mean the whole point of wii is to get everyone gaming with simpler controls. I want to see casual gamers playing Godfather, Call of duty, and other games too. If not then the Wii will become a novelty Item for many casual gamers because when they tire of Wii sports (if thats even possible) then the ride is over. So guys do your casual gamer family members of friends play anything other than Wii sports, and if so are the controls just as "intuitive" for those as is for Wii sports?

 

[Lackey]

my family gets into playing Wii Sports, Monkey Ball, and Raving Rabbits... all 3 of those are fun "party" games and you also have Wii Play coming out soon.

 

[MaximumSpider]

I think Casual gamers are scared of the nunchuc

 

[DACrowe]

My friends who are gamers play whatever suits them (Wii Sports being the most friendly and fun for eveyrone game when it comes to multi-player however). But yeah, the non-gamers who love Wii only play Wii Tennis, Wii Bowling and maybe sometimes Wii Baseball.

I honestly do think the idea of a nunchuck and using the buttons scares them, hence why Boxing is the least played too then.

 

[Brainiac 8]

I don't know about that...my non-gamer friends and family love Wii Sports, Raving Rabbids, and Monkey Ball also.

Plus they want me to get Mario Party and Wario Ware which both look really fun to them.

 

[MaximumSpider]

I don't know about that...my non-gamer friends and family love Wii Sports, Raving Rabbids, and Monkey Ball also.

Plus they want me to get Mario Party and Wario Ware which both look really fun to them.

Well that's my point. Now correct me if I'm wrong because I've never played Monkey ball or RR but they don't require the chuck do they?

Also I'm laughing at your avatar because Clarks throwing a punch. Thats one punch more than supes threw in Superman Returns lol

 

[Brainiac 8]

Well that's my point. Now correct me if I'm wrong because I've never played Monkey ball or RR but they don't require the chuck do they?

Also I'm laughing at your avatar because Clarks throwing a punch. Thats one punch more than supes threw in Superman Returns lol

hehe, you're one of the few who think along the same lines as me when I decided to go with this as an avvy. t:

Monkey Ball: Some of the mini games require the nunchuck...the single player does not.

RR: This does require the nunchuck on 99% of the games.

 

[newmexneon]

When I buy a Wii, I most likely won't even buy any games. I want it for the Virtual Console and nothing else. If I wan't to play newer games I have a 360 for that.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

When I buy a Wii, I most likely won't even buy any games. I want it for the Virtual Console and nothing else. If I wan't to play newer games I have a 360 for that.

Just get emulators and ROMs if that's the case. Let someone who wants to play Wii games get the Wii.

 

[Kritish]

Nintendo ****ed up big time, the casual gamers aren't going to buy as many games. It's more profitable to appeal to the hard core gamers.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Actually, it is less profitable to appeal to hardcore gamers. They're a minority of the market.

 

[Kritish]

Actually, it is less profitable to appeal to hardcore gamers. They're a minority of the market.

I'm not talking about people that spend most of their lives playing GTA, I mean people that buy more than a few games a year. Most of the casual gamers will buy Red Steel and Zelda and nothing else for months.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

They buy more than that. And the amount of people who buy 5 games within 2 months is very small compared to casual gamers.

 

[MaximumSpider]

I did a little experiment today. A friend of mine who's a girl age 27. Has played nothing but wii sports at my place. Today she came over and I told her I wanted her to play a new game to see if she could do it. Call of duty 3 is the game. I gave her little instruction. All I said was. "the wiimote is your gun, b is trigger and you use the analog stick to move forward but point the wiimote to turn" Now for those of you who hasn't played call of duty, there is a training section at the beggining of the game where you have to shoot these helmets that are placed on sticks and throw some grenades through windows of barns. You have to shoot 5 helmets to advance to the next training. She hit all 5 first time, I was shocked. The grenades where a little trickier for her since you have to lob and arch the grenades to make it in the windows ut it took her about 6 tries to get it right. I know for a fact that if she where using dual analog she wouldn't have hit those helmets. The only other semi problem she had was walking straight because I think she wasn't getting the fact that you have to keep the wiimote steady but she wasn't that bad. I think if she put in a good 30 min to an hour she would be able to get it. So fps are i think easier for non gamers on wii anyway

 

[Kritish]

They buy more than that. And the amount of people who buy 5 games within 2 months is very small compared to casual gamers.

How exactly do you define a casual gamer?

 

[Spidey-Bat]

Someone who doesn't play more than 2 hrs in one sitting on a regular basis.

 

[terry78]

There honestly aren't a lot of people over 18 that buy that many games in one sitting. There just aren't. There are a lot of adult gamers out there, but not as many as there are kids.

 

[Kritish]

Someone who doesn't play more than 2 hrs in one sitting on a regular basis.

But that's pretty easy, especially if you have a new game.

 

[newmexneon]

Just get emulators and ROMs if that's the case. Let someone who wants to play Wii games get the Wii.

I don't have a clue what you just said.