MI6: Do Core Gamers Still Matter?

jessupj - 619 days 3 hours ago

I say kill all the casual gamers, and all the old people while we're at it :P and maybe hilary as well...

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SaiyanFury - 618 days 16 hours ago

I seriously doubt that major third party developers would ditch core gamers and focus only on casuals. The games that third party devs have been making for every generation since the NES have targeted a few casual gamers but focus on core gamers as they make most of their games to appeal to the said audience of cores. Like Squaresoft. The overwhelming majority of their games are RPGs that appeal to core fans. If they tried to target a demographic that doesn't buy a lot of games, with games that have long term appeal, they might end up losing money. Casuals don't usually throw money away on repetitiveness, they usually buy games they think will be fun. But they don't buy many games in general which is why overall, the 3rd party devs don't focus so much on the Wii. Sure they dish out shovelware that some casuals might buy, but the Wii doesn't have the third party sales that the PS3 and 360 enjoy. The very reasoning behind the Wii is that Nintendo releases it's own core titles that sell very well. The casuals buy things they think look like fun. But don't dish out lots of money for lots of games. Core gamers "look" for games enthusiastically, but core gamers pay only a minimal amount of attention to games so major buying isn't in the forecast. The Wii third party software sales reflect this. Just an observation.

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