Are the Nintendo DS and Wii good platforms for casual games?
The DS and the Wii are definitely great platforms for casual games and we’re very much interested in creating games for both platforms. The success of both the DS and the Wii have been primarily due to Nintendo’s new Blue Ocean strategy of creating games for the casual players, and it has paid off in spades. The DS is the most interesting case to me; because it has successfully captured both casual players (Brain Age, Nintendogs) and the hardcore games looking for new and innovative games (Hotel Dusk, Elite Beat Agents). However, it seems to me that the audience for PC casual games is quite different to the ones playing the DS and Wii. The casual games that we’re looking to create for the DS/Wii will have to be significantly different than the ones we’re creating for the PC audience. Also if you think more about it, the DS and the Wii are successful primarily because they offered new and innovative interfaces (touch screens, motion sensitive controls), whereas one can argue that part o
