There’s no need for the core, in fact it works better if you describe fat sun-reading mums and their horrible chav offspring that love a bit of Wii-ing as “Core gamers”

No, everyone in that group obviously wants to instead play CoD5: shakey-shake-shake, which aims to recreate the unnerving nature of the conflict featured, by sending increasingly stronger vibration feedback to anyone whose Wii remote doesn’t point at the screen for any particular ten seconds. It’s like the squad leader’s sitting on that sofa, next to you, barking orders!

Actually where the hell did the term core gamer come from anyway? What the fuck’s a core gamer? Harcore gamer? Casual Gamer? What’s a core gamer then? Someone who plays Apple dashboard stuff?

I think Nintendo’s core gamers /are/ the people who play Animal Crossing, and they buy that game a lot more than anyone bought Metroid Prime.

The sad thing is, Nintendo (and their second party studios) really do know how to me “core” gamers’ games – Metroid Prime 3 is probably the best example of this – but they come along once in a blue moon.

Come on, they’ve done Metroid, Mario and Zelda once. Even if we stick to Nintendo’s existing franchsies, we’re surely due a Starfox game; a Pikmin game; a F-Zero game… and so on.

I don’t blame Nintendo for focussing on Wii Sports Resort and all that, but it is galling that they’re pretending they did otherwise.

how many stand out games have been released for Wii?

He’s the diamond in the rock. *laughs*

Funny thing with the Wii is, there might be a lack of “core”, but when Nintendo actually does release one, they sell in droves. Nintendo likes to tease, I guess.

Still, they don’t care. These gamers may have kept them afloat in the gamecube era but they don’t need them now.

/watches

FWIW, previous GTA portable efforts were quite good fun. But I couldn’t give a flying fuck about Zelda. There’s only so many decades of pushing blocks onto switches and throwing boomerangs across a room before you realise that it’s the same game every single time.