Should There Be More M-Rated Games For the Wii?

I believe to stay competitive with the Playstation, and Xbox they will have to begin releasing more M rated titles. Otherwise there market share will slowly shrink, even a family with a lot of kids, will want m rated titles for the parents.

I think the wii is being underminded by big corporations such as microsoft and sony. If the wii was given a chance to prove it can be fun but still be up to the standards of the general public then maybe more M-rated games would come out for it.

One answer, NO. Atleast PG+

although as everyone has said above, the parents are really getting into the wii

I Reallly Don’t Think M Rated Games Are Good.

Nintendo are their own worst enemy in this respect. The questions shouldn’t focus on M-rated titles on the Wii, it should be asking why games which appeal more to adults (M-rated or otherwise) aren’t marketed properly to the broader range of gamers.

Madworld from SEGA will be released for the Wii in the Spring and my concern is that the title will be advertised in the same manner as other “adult” games – some serious looking guy standing in his perfect apartment waving his arms around while trying to appear cool and in control.

This is exactly what happened when Red Steel was released, regardless of the game’s final quality, the adverts put off so many males who were watching and couldn’t help but wonder who the hell the ad was trying to appeal to.

Even as a games journalist I have a hard time convincing my male friends that the Wii isn’t entirely made up of kids games and that titles such as Scarface and No More Heroes are worth checking out…I’m fighting a losing battle and Nintendo aren’t helping.

Nintendo are doing just fine the way they are. They are the only video game company / console manufacturer that can survive solely on their own first party content. Not even Sega with all of their great franchises could do it back in the Genesis, Saturn and Dreamcast days. That really says a lot about the house that Mario built.

Sure, there have been violent games on Nintendo systems in the past, but that has mostly been the exception rather than the rule. Even then they were sometimes watered down. For example Mortal Kombat on the Super Nintendo featured green sweat rather than red blood.

Leave Nintendo alone. Let them do what they do best which is make great family friendly games that you can’t help but love. How can you argue with success?

I agree with David Hanson’s comment. I’m a father of two young boys, and I’m also a gamer. The games I enjoy are on the Xbox and PS3, but I won’t have those systems in my house. I bought the Wii in large part because of Nintendo’s family friendly rep, and I bought the Game Cube and an assortment of DS’s for the same reason.

If Nintendo shifts their focus to appeal more to the blood and gore crowd, that takes away an important differentiation they currently enjoy in the console marketplace. If that happens and their game selection is roughly the same as for other consoles, I’m likely to buy my next console from Microsoft. If I’m not going to get that “you’re a good Dad” feeling buying a console, I’ll just make my decision on which console I personally would rather play.

It might look something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_4jwGEuaq8

All you see on the news is that the Wii outsells the xbox etc etc…If all of these great titles are only made for the xbox and playstation then why the heck arn’t they being ported to clearly the number 1 selling console? I don’t know if you see it or not, but I only see the Wii directed towards little children. If they would make more violent games for the Wii then it would get even more sales than it does now. If the Wiimote and nunchuck won’t work with the game…well..make use of the classic controller then (or make a new controller). If parents complain that they don’t want their kids playing with such games…well…aren’t there parental controls? I vote “Yes”.

In my opinion they need to have multiple teams working on first party games so that during a console generation they can have 2 games of each ip be released. i.e. 2 Mario platforming games, 2 legend of Zelda games and so on… Those are the games most people like to play, buy and collect. I don’t think people who want to play M rated games are going to ever consider a Nintendo system a viable option for that type of game.

If they want to keep up with xbox 360 and ps3 then yes they should. It would spice things up a little…. How many more Mario games do we need! lolz.

I personally think that the Wii should stick to being the “Family Console” and should leave all the M-rated games for the hardcore gamer consoles like the PS3 and 360. The Wii gets enough buisness of of families anyways.

Another thing about the Wii is that high end games need their graphics toned down to be able to run on the Wii, so anyone that wants to buy a M-rated game (that would usually have great graphics on the other 2 consoles) will have to sacrifice good graphics in order to run it on a Wii. so there really is no valid points of why someone would buy one of those games for the Wii.

When I think of the Wii, I do not think of gamer intensive with the headphones playing first person shooters. When I think of the Wii, I think more of a family friendly system where parents of older ages or younger ones that can play while be entertaining (seriously can you imagine your parents or young children playing Gears of War series?) I love the wii because I can get up and move, yes the controls may not be on the dot when you move, the Wii can still be fun to play with others. Like a girlfriend. Just to get together. But while I’m with my game geeks and have a Madden tournament, we bust out the Xbox 360s and PS3s, along with big screen tvs, we got it on. So if Wii wants to make a couple M rated games, let it be, not going to stop me. I love playing mario games like kart, Galaxy, and all those fun games that don’t need a M rating just to be good.

I have a Wii, and personally I think the Wii should stay mostly under M-Rated games. If Nintendo is mainly marketing to women and children, then adding more mature games might not lead these types of people to buy the Wii. I think that other gaming systems should be more for mature games, and the Wii should stay how it is.

I think more quality titles should be released on the Wii as that is what will inevitably cause the console to diminish in popularity, a trait already seen among the “gamer” crowd. In that respect the content and as such rating of games don’t matter as much. If anything the way the ESRB’s ratings system works would mean that games that would normally be considered mature on the 360 and PS3 due to their ‘realistic’ graphics could slide as a teen title on the Wii by the sole virtue of not being as ‘realistic’.

I believe that developers should pay more attention to the Wii in general since, as was noted, it’s install base is unforgivably high for the ratio of crappy games to good games the system has. If this mean a developer wants to make a mature game, so be it because as long as it’s a good game it will sell to the “gamers” who have dust coating the system.

And if anyone pulls the whole “you can’t make a good mature game on the Wii” I’d like to point out all the quality titles the PSP is seeing that fall in the T and M ratings. There is no reason those titles, at the least, couldn’t be ported over.

UncleJohn states a good point. Competition is sure to increase heavily so M-rated titles are important.

I think that there shouold be more m rated games for the wii sense the graphics can handle it, for people who say its for children no one said you have to buy the games that are m just make them availabile for those who want them

Honestly? No.

As it’s been said, Nintendo does have it’s first-party content. Zelda, Mario, Metroid, all of that is more than enough to keep them almost afloat all by themselves.

However, when it comes to third-party content, you have to consider that the Wii, PS3, and 360 have their user base. The reason the Wii sells so well is because their user base of everyone, their parents, grandparents, and a monkey that likes to play fun, albeit usually simple games is what makes them so popular, and why they don’t need a heavier, more adult M rated game, and why the M-rated games aren’t selling.

Additionally, those who usually enjoy the M-Rated games, such as Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid, Halo, Resistance, Bioshock, etc. will also expect more of their machine in terms of performance, and as a matter of fact, the Wii just can’t put that kind of a show on, while a PS3, 360, or PC can.

Nintendo has it’s user base, and it’s user base that has adults in it, but those adults won’t go to the Wii for M-rated entertainment. They’re going to pick up their 360 or PS3 controller (or a keyboard and mouse) instead. The Wii has it’s place, and it’s trouncing the competition. Why fix what isn’t broken?

If they want to keep up with xbox 360 and ps3 then yes they should. It would spice things up a little….How many more Mario games do we really need?

in my opinion, yes, i used to own a WII and the whole reason i sold it, was because all the games that were available for it were for kids. They made something very very unique, why don’t they use it to its full potential? They would get a lot more sales by doing that as well. But on the other hand, its hard to incorpirate the controls, as to what the character would do and such.

~Seven~

Why not? If you don’t want to play M rated games on the WII then don’t buy them! For those who what to buy a M rated game for the WII should get the change to. I think it would be cool to play a lot of the M rated games on the WII.

-ARKaMAN

i think there should personally iam not always in the mood to play wii sports i want something ore interesting

Yes their should be more m rated games for the wii

…they used to say the nintendo 64 was a kids machine…
…then goldeneye…
…THEN perfect dark…

I believe they ought to have more M-rated games. Gears of War and GTA are good ideas. I mean, who wouldn’t like to virtually cut somebody’s head off with a chainsaw?

Personally, if a person buy a game because it’s M rated, they aren’t much of a gamer. Most of the “adult” games are childish at best and medicore at their worst. Why should I play a crappy FPS game like Halo that doesn’t really add to gameplay, when I can play something fresh and orignal? The fact that a kids’ game like Kirby Super Star can easily outdo most of the games today in terms of actual fun shows the direction of gaming. No longer are games made to be fun, game developers go with the idea of the more blood in a game, the better it is. Pokemon is more of an adult game than most shooters and other games that have loads of blood because of the fact that it’s aimed for kids, but until you mature a little, you won’t realize the real good strageries to help you win, so then the game should have a stronger following by adult gamers. But they are often closed minded to kiddie games and ingrone the possibly of great gameplay, even if Pokemon has a bad story and average graphics.

We are talking about games people, not story, not graphics, not how much blood you can put in a game, but actual gameplay. That’s way more important than a content rating.