PC’s Blue Ocean Deeper Than Nintendo’s?
That's what Gamasutra writer Rick Sanchez thinks:
To look at it another way, perhaps episodic gameplay affords PC developers a blue ocean opportunity. For two years we have been listening to Nintendo talk about broadening the games market. Their solution for this in the living room is a next gen platform with last gen features with a gimmicky controller that is less expensive than other next gen systems. All their rhetoric about broadening the market feels more like a justification for a product that competes with the PS2 for quality but loses to it for catalog of games and price.
Ouch. His particular argument in this instance (the piece is primarily about episodic gaming) is that the Wii costs $250 while everybody already owns a PC, so through raw installed user base numbers the PC is the more financially viable platform for casual gaming.
Maybe, but...maybe not. Right now (and for the foreseeable future) PC's are a one-man show. The real strength of the Wii is shaping up to be it's inclusiveness in a physical sense (as opposed to playing online); think of all the promo ads, and then the actual YouTube vids, of groups of people seated (or jumping) around the TV playing Wii Sports - now try and imagine them doing the same for some $9 PC game.
Yeah, I can't either.
Why Bother With Episodic Games? [Gamasutra]
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Leave a comment