Are different types / ages of people really playing Wii?

evilgrizz

evilgrizz

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I was wondering how many of you out there are really experiencing what Nintendo wanted to ultimatly do withthe Wii: INVOLVE EVERYONE.

1. My Wife won't let me play it when she is around. She is too busy playing Twilight Princess and asking me what to do next then give up the controller.

2. My 7 year old GIRL is a Bowling Pro. She can play Excite Truck. Twilight is too much for her though.

3. My 4 year GIRL just learned how to bowl last weekend. Can't play excite truck.

4. Of course all my nephews love it.

5. My parent in-laws won't touch it.

6. I am an OG: Original Gamer. 30 years old, and still going hard.

7. My 2 year old son loves to hold the controller. Mainly becasue everyone in my house plays Wii. He does not like taking shots to his dome by the Wii controller because of my 7 year olds lack of concern for anyones saftey when she plays baseball or bowls. Don't worry. The controller is fine.

8. My chubby nephew has LOST WIEGHT because of boxing. 8 pounds and counting.

9. My 50+ year old dad loves to fish in Twilight. Does not like getting beat down at Wii sports by my 7 year old. Plus she is a girl, so that makes getting beat down worse for him.

10. My grandparents were amazed, but are afraid to touch it.

11. My nephew's parents, (most in their 40's) all love it. Golf and bowling seem to be #1 with all of them. Old skool mario is also huge with them.

So yeah so far, Its working Nintendo.
 
I camped out for a Wii at 4:30am at Target about two weeks after launch. At about 5:00am an old lady shows up, like 60 and proclaims she's buying it for herself after having tried it at the mall. Crazy ain't it?
 
I had my whole family(ages 9 through the 50's) playing the system and all of them loved it. We did Wii Sports and it was a hit, my 9 year old cousin was beating ass at bowling while I managed to lose my pro rating for sucking so bad. My work xmas party was full of 30 and up people adn all loved the system as well...it's a hit!!!
 
It seems to me whenever I have a free moment, someone else is playing my Wii. So I'd say, everyone but the gamers :)
 
Causal gamers or consumers who played very few hours of video games like Wii console very much since your interacting and full immerse themselves in to the game.Wii invited a host of people who never enjoy video games like elderly,women,etc.

Most hardcore gamers such as myself and several others dislike the Wii controls because controls not quite as respondsive,weak graphics,whole gimmick for controls and some games limited due to wii control(big example tony hawk,probably some fighting game)
 
[quote name='fatbeer']
Most hardcore gamers such as myself and several others dislike the Wii controls because controls not quite as respondsive,weak graphics,whole gimmick for controls and some games limited due to wii control(big example tony hawk,probably some fighting game)[/quote]

Wrong. Your personal experience doesnt extend to the general gaming populace
 
Hardcore gamers? Thats a laugh. I have been gaming since the Atari 2600. What makes anyone more hardcore than another? If you are TRULY a serious gamer than you would definetly enjoy playing Wii because of just how different it really is. I enjoy 360, PS3, and all my handhelds as well. The Wii is truly remarkable. Those of you who complain about poor responsiveness must not be very quick in the old hand-eye coordination area then. I have logged 40+ hour on Twilight Princess (I would have more, but the wife loves it and has beaten it.) and the controls are very responsive. You have to be lightining quik throughout the game to accomplish many of your feats. Admittedly so, there ar crappy-unresponsive games for the Wii out there. But pon the other note, there are many more crappy and unresponsive games out there for all the other systems as well. As far as the Wii not being for harcore gamers...if you do't like it then maybe you aren't what you claim to be. Last I heard the hardcore does it all. Not just stands back as a fanboy. The hardcore would not just want to push buttons, but instead, BE IN THE GAME. The Wii is doing exactly what the big N wanted it to do...and far more.....
 
Oh I forgot to metion about that part about the Wii having limited controls in some games....True. I agree with that...BUT....lets talk about Wii Sports.
 
Oh I forgot to mention about that part about the Wii having limited controls in some games....True. I agree with that...BUT....lets talk about Wii Sports. If that was a 360 or PS3 game...It would be SUPER crappy. Put it on the Wii with the controls..and the graphics issues go away. The fun level shoots up to a perfect 10. SUnfortuantly some of the more SIMPLE minded people out there still seem to think games have to be limited to a control pad and sitting in a chair. Playing a game and enjoying it doesn't mean it has to have 40 buttons to push. The forgot about the FUN games should be. If you limit yourself to one thing YOU think is the abosulte best there is, and try nothing else, then you will miss out on all the other flavors of life.
 
A "hardcore gamer" should be open to anything regardless of the console, genre, graphics, contollers, etc. Its should be about the experience and not necessarily what you experience it on.

And I do believe everyone and anyone really is playing or wants a Wii. A couple months ago no one except the informed gaming crowd knew what a Wii is. Now when it comes up in casual conversation, people get excited and you hear "yea its FUN" or "it looks FUN". Awesome keyword there. I've been hearing a lot of the good old phrase 'playing Nintendo'.
 
I don't think anyone is running out to buy a Wii who wouldn't normally buy video games. Everyone at the New Year's party I was at had a fun time with Wii Sports and my parents had fun playing when I showed it to them but no one is going out and dropping $250 on it. The Wii might get more people involved at a party or something but at the end of the day it's a video game system and you either play them or you don't.
 
[quote name='javeryh']I don't think anyone is running out to buy a Wii who wouldn't normally buy video games.[/quote]

Actually I can prove you wrong on this one.

I brought my Wii over to my sister's house for New Year's Eve. While I played pool with my brother in law and my father the girls all played the Wii. This includes my mother (56) my wife (39) and my sister (31).

They loved:
Wii Sports (bowling mostly)
Rayman (so funny watching them play this game)
Super Monkey Ball

They played for 4 hours straight. Afterwards my Mom declared that she was going to buy a Wii as soon as she could find one. The last game I remember her playing was asteroids with me on a 2600 when I was little.
 
My Dad hasn't touched a console game since the NES. He has me looking for a Wii for him since playing it over Christmas.

My Mom likes Tennis and Bowling.

My wife will play when there's a crowd. She's yet to really want to play on her own, though.

My Grandma asks me to bring the Wii when we're coming over now to play bowling.

We got my cousin's husband, a self-proclaimed non-gamer, a Wii for Christmas because of the fun he had playing it over Thanksgiving.

My Aunt and Uncle loved it, and were almost on the floor, crying for laughing so hard playing boxing.

I have to say, I knew Nintendo's goals but I'm flat out amazed at the empirical (and yes, anecdotal) evidence as to them branching out their demographic. And even for myself who's in the know about games, etc, the Wii is some of the most fun I've ever had playing games.
 
A few of my girl friends (that are non-gamers) loved Wii Sports and Trauma Center (15-18 yrs old). One of them had never played a video game in her life.
My bfs 6 yr old nephew has his own, but he plays lots of video games all the time.
 
Ive got a friend who HATES video games talks shit all the time saying they are for nerds, this and that. Everytime he comes over first thing he wants to do... "Wii Bowling". Apparently to him it isnt as much a video game cause it requires action rather than button pushing. Its something he feels he has a chance to beat me at (and he has). I think thats alot of the appeal. Its so natural anyone can do it. Like we play Tennis someone asks "how do I serve?" answer, "throw the ball up." same when people are just sucking real bad, its usually cause they arent doing something like they would if they were really doing it, like a half assed bowl. People underestimate the Wiimote alot, I always tell them "It knows, dont try and cheat it..."
 
My wife was a big gamer back in the Genesis/SNES games. But, with the advent of the PS1 and beyond, she lost interest. The controls were too complicated, she said, and the controllers were not a comfortable fit for her smaller hands.

She's taken to the Wii like it's a gift from God. She's played Wii sports, the new Zelda, Trauma Center...and some old favorites (SMB and Sonic). She's enjoying my X-mas present as much as I am.

My 4 year old is interested, but I've been a bit reticent to let her try it out....I'm afraid for the life of my 2 year old son, our newborn daughther, my wife, ME, and my 50 inch TV. But, given some of the testimony above, I might try to get her started on Wii bowling this weekend. We'll see how brave I'm feeling.
 
My in-laws are pretty hardcore gamers and they ask me to bring my Wii over to their house whenever we visit (we have been trying to find them one since Thanksgiving with no luck). On New Year's Eve, my wife and I went over to the in-laws (with the Wii) and some friends of my in-laws were over as well. Their friends are both in their mid 50s.

I hooked up the Wii and showed them the forecast channel first. They loved the globe functionality and thought it was neat. Then I put in Wii Sports and we demoed Tennis and Bowling for them. They were very hesitant to play at first, but after enough badgering, we got them to try out Tennis and then Boxing.

By the end of the night, they were playing Tennis and Bowling almost non-stop and had already come to the decision to buy one for themselves. These are people who have never played videogames ever.

I think a lot of non-gamers are going to buy the Wii just for Wii Sports alone. They may never buy another game, but Wii Sports is just so intuitive for people who don't play games that it seems incredible to them.
 
[quote name='fatbeer']
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Most competive gamers such as myself and several others dislike the Wii controls because controls not quite as respondsive,whole gimmick for controls and some games limited due to wii control(big example tony hawk,probably some fighting game)[/QUOTE]


opps,poor choice of words.i meant if your going in a serious online match or get those hard achievement or extras a little mistake can cost you the game
 
My dad plays ... he's in his 40's and has hated every video game there has ever been made before this. (Except metal slug .. he liked that in the arcade :) )
 
[quote name='fatbeer']Causal gamers or consumers who played very few hours of video games like Wii console very much since your interacting and full immerse themselves in to the game.Wii invited a host of people who never enjoy video games like elderly,women,etc.

Most hardcore gamers such as myself and several others dislike the Wii controls because controls not quite as respondsive,weak graphics,whole gimmick for controls and some games limited due to wii control(big example tony hawk,probably some fighting game)[/quote]

Let's not generalize, shall we? I'd consider myself a hardcore gamer. I've owned a TON of consoles since (and including) the atrari 2600 right on through to the Wii and Xbox 360, today.

I enjoy the Wii for what it is, and not what it isn't. The control scheme is VERY responsive. The graphics are fine, considering the advance in play mechanics, and I think you'd be hard pressed, at this point, to prove the controls are simply "gimmicky". Play Zelda for an hour with the Wii, then play it for the GC and tell me which feels more intuitive.

Can the Wii play the same types of games as the other next gen consoles? Maybe not. But to me, with the Wii being my secondary console, that's really not much of an issue...because it CAN play games the other consoles simply can't.
 
my wife and I enjoy playing wii sports together...I love knocking her out and pulling a smokey on her....DAMMMM you got KNOCKED THE fuck OUT
 
A buddy of mine who hasn't owned any game system since the NES told me today he tracked down a Wii over Christmas and bought one. I was pretty surprised because I think this demographic is exactly who Nintendo is trying to lure back into gaming and in this isolated case they have done just that.

I figured he just bought it for Wii Sports mainly, and it wouldn't get much use after that novelty wore off, but then he mentioned he just bought Rabbid Rabbits and Elebits. Again I was surprised because they are both two of the better non-mainstream games to buy for the Wii.

Now he's also looking to buy some cheap GC games to play on it.
 
[quote name='kaw']A buddy of mine who hasn't owned any game system since the NES told me today he tracked down a Wii over Christmas and bought one. I was pretty surprised because I think this demographic is exactly who Nintendo is trying to lure back into gaming and in this isolated case they have done just that.

I figured he just bought it for Wii Sports mainly, and it wouldn't get much use after that novelty wore off, but then he mentioned he just bought Rabbid Rabbits and Elebits. Again I was surprised because they are both two of the better non-mainstream games to buy for the Wii.

Now he's also looking to buy some cheap GC games to play on it.[/quote]

That kinda warms my heart. Very nice.
I may not be having as much fun with the Wii as everyone here, but it's really nice to read these stories.
Gaming has changed sinoe those SNES/Genesis days, it was more light-hearted then. Everyone could play.

It's finally gotten back to that, a little bit. Hope it lasts.
 
I was able to get my grandma to play it for a few hours, which is insane considering she's never played a video game in her life. Wii Tennis/Bowling was what did it.

My mother also plays Wii Sports on a pretty normal basis, and she hasn't played a video game since Zaxxon.

I would consider Nintendo's strategy pretty much a success already.
 
My mom called me at work atbout 10 minutes ago, ironically while I was reading these posts, to let me know she just stood in line for 3 hours to get my dad a Wii. Apparently he hasn't stopped talking about it since he played at my house during my daughter's birthday. My dad has not played games since the original Nintendo. He loved Kid Nikki for some reason.
 
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