Nintendo hasn’t ditched the hardcore! just look at the line up this Christmas!

There’s um, Snowboarding, and Rabbids and, uh, Wii Music… Oh.

The only really high profile ‘hardcore’ title on wii this Christmas is COD5, and all the ‘hardcore’ gamers are going to get it for the 360 or PS3.

That said, I have plenty of games that I enjoy for my Wii. If achievements and leader boards are all you care about, you’re doing it wrong. Gaming is supposed to be fun, not a second job.

I have a decent PC anyway, so I consider that to be my hardcore platform. Maybe that makes me unqualified to speak about it, but all the people bleating on about ‘no hardcore games’ are the type of gamers who have a 360/PS3 anyway. Even if they did release Gears of Halo 4 on Wii, they’d have all bought it on the ‘hardcore’ platforms anyway, making the Wii release practically redundant.

(I would, however, buy any game from Valve on the Wii, regardless of how many copies I already had.)